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Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Iowa, United States of America
Workiva Inc. 🇺🇸 Iowa, United States of America
This role is responsible for leading and shaping user experience strategy across multiple products, overseeing the end-to-end UX strategy from discovery through delivery and continuous optimization. Key duties include uncovering user needs, translating insights into scalable experience direction, and mentoring senior designers to elevate craft standards.
Sr. UX Designer - Onsite, Springfield, MO
🇺🇸 Springfield, Missouri, United States of America
Bass Pro Shops 🇺🇸 Springfield, Missouri, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will drive key design decisions by leading the creation, governance, and evolution of design systems and contributing to foundational UX frameworks based on user insights and research findings. This role involves creating design solutions through various research methods, producing artifacts like wireframes and high-fidelity designs, and mentoring junior designers.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Tes 🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
The role requires hands-on delivery across the entire design lifecycle, producing strategic deliverables like service maps and logic flows, while also setting the standard for design quality and mentoring junior team members. Key duties involve leading discovery efforts, balancing business goals with user needs, and ensuring complex user flows and information architecture are defined.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Backops-ai 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for a core product area, partnering closely with product and engineering from discovery through delivery and iteration. Responsibilities include planning and conducting user research, creating design artifacts in Figma, and contributing to the evolution of the design system.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Everlaw 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
This role involves driving strategic vision for high-impact initiatives, defining the future of the AI-powered litigation platform by establishing industry-leading AI design patterns, guardrails for control, and transparency. The designer will also provide cross-functional leadership by partnering with senior Product and Engineering leaders to guide strategic decisions and evolve organizational design craft standards.
UX Designer, Community
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Twitch 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The role involves leading design work at the project level, collaborating with senior cross-functional partners, and representing work to executive leadership, focusing on streamer creation and viewer engagement experiences.
UX Designer, Community
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Twitch 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves leading design work at the project level, collaborating with senior cross-functional partners, and representing work to executive leadership while guiding and mentoring junior designers. Designers are involved from project conception through execution, including hands-on research and close collaboration with engineers.
UX Designer, Community
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Twitch 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
This role involves leading design work at the project level, collaborating with senior cross-functional partners, and representing design work to executive leadership while guiding junior designers. Designers are involved from project conception through execution, including hands-on research and close collaboration with engineers.
UX Designer, Community
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Twitch 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
This role involves leading design work at the project level, collaborating with senior cross-functional partners, and representing work to executive leadership while guiding and mentoring junior designers. Designers are involved from project conception through execution, including hands-on research and close collaboration with engineers.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Noma Security 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The Senior Product Designer will lead the entire design lifecycle from research through iteration, collaborating closely with Product and R&D teams to translate complex requirements into intuitive user experiences. They will own key product domains, simplify sophisticated AI and security workflows, and contribute to evolving the design system.
Global Design Engineering Lead
🇺🇸 Chandler, Arizona, United States of America
Bank Of America 🇺🇸 Chandler, Arizona, United States of America
This senior role involves building and leading a team to deliver technology products, developing a technology strategy, and ensuring solutions comply with global network standards. Key duties include producing holistic network designs, documenting low-level solutions, and leveraging automation to solve complex challenges across Network Services.
Electronics Product Design Engineering - Senior Professional
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Schneider Electric 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The role involves leading the definition, decomposition, and validation of hardware requirements, owning the requirements baseline in tools like DOORS or Jama Connect, and establishing bidirectional traceability across the V-model lifecycle. This includes translating requirements into architectural choices, guiding DFx alignment, owning verification planning, and managing change control processes.
Marketing - Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America
Golden 1 Talent Acquisition Team 🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America
This role serves as a lead designer, responsible for the creation, development, coordination, and execution of high-impact print and digital advertisements and member-facing promotions, ensuring they are on-brand for the credit union. The Senior Graphic Designer also acts as the primary contact for designing professional PowerPoint presentations for executives and overseeing the production process for various marketing initiatives.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
Aave Labs Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
The role involves designing end-to-end product experiences across web and mobile platforms, translating complex DeFi mechanics and data flows into intuitive, user-centered interfaces. Responsibilities also include contributing to the design system, ensuring design vision alignment with engineering, and partnering with product teams on problem definition.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, City of London, United Kingdom
Moneybox 🇬🇧 London, City of London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will own high-impact problems from initial discovery through launch and measurable outcomes, focusing on turning intricate financial concepts into simple, intuitive mobile experiences. They will partner with Product and Engineering to define success, drive measurable outcomes, and contribute to the design system.
About Design Leadership careers
Design leaders in 2026 set the strategic vision for design organizations navigating an AI-saturated market. This role requires a balance of craft expertise and high-level business acumen to advocate for design's value at the executive level.
Effective leaders foster a culture of technical agency, establishing systems that allow human creativity and machine efficiency to coexist.
Companies like Stripe and Airbnb seek VPs and Directors of Design who can scale teams and align design strategy with long-term business objectives.
We feature senior leadership positions including Design Directors, Heads of Design, VP of Design, Chief Design Officers, and design team leads at companies like Meta, Google, Airbnb, Stripe, and fast-growing AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. These roles span product design, brand, and cross-functional design organizations.
Many companies offer remote design leadership roles, including distributed-first companies like Notion, Linear, GitLab, and Vercel. AI companies like Midjourney and Anthropic also hire remote design leaders. Some companies prefer hybrid arrangements for VP+ positions.
Most positions require 8–15+ years of design experience with 3–5+ years managing teams. Strong candidates demonstrate strategic thinking, team building, stakeholder management, and a track record of shipping successful products at companies like Figma, Spotify, Netflix, or emerging AI startups. Browse leadership portfolios to see how experienced designers showcase their impact.
Design leadership salaries are highly competitive: Design Directors earn $160k–$240k, VPs of Design $220k–$350k+, and CDOs at major companies can exceed $400k with significant equity packages. AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Databricks often offer premium total compensation. Consult our salary guide for detailed breakdowns.