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Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Athenahealth 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will guide the UX aspect of the product development process for agile R&D teams, defining, designing, and testing workflows for electronic health record and revenue cycle products. This involves synthesizing research, driving alignment through design narratives, and producing detailed design concepts for scalable, web-based product experiences.
Senior Product Designer (12 month contract)
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Match Group 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead growth-focused design initiatives across activation, engagement, retention, and conversion, translating complex problems into intuitive experiences that measurably move metrics. They will drive the full design process from discovery through launch, partnering closely with cross-functional teams, and contribute to product strategy by framing problems and evaluating tradeoffs.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇫🇷 France)
Bitstack Remote (🇫🇷 France)
The role involves leading end-to-end design initiatives from idea to polished delivery, collaborating closely with engineering, care, and compliance teams to ensure project success. Responsibilities include creating high-quality mockups and prototypes, utilizing and improving the design system, and setting the bar for design quality within the organization.
Lead UX Designer, Public Web
🇺🇸 Newton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Ascensus 🇺🇸 Newton, Massachusetts, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will be responsible for website UX and design leadership, including designing user flows, prototypes, and partnering with the content team on navigation and taxonomy for public websites. They will also be tasked with creating a scalable design system of atomic components, patterns, and documentation leveraging Figma.
Senior Product Designer, Payments
🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
Netflix 🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
The role involves leading the design strategy for global payment acquisition, optimizing end-to-end experiences for new members across various platforms and payment methods worldwide. Responsibilities also include championing the evolution of Payments as a Service by developing scalable platform components and patterns to support new lines of business.
Sr. Product Designer, Client Experience Platform
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Abcorp Na Inc. 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
This Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design for a modern, multi-tenant SaaS platform, focusing on harmonizing capabilities into a cohesive customer experience portal. Responsibilities include owning discovery, interaction design, visual design, and evolving the design system while partnering with engineering and product leadership.
Senior Product Designer (12 month contract)
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Match Group 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead growth-focused design initiatives across activation, engagement, retention, and conversion, translating ambiguous problems into intuitive experiences that measurably move metrics. They will drive the full design process from discovery through launch, partnering closely with cross-functional teams to deliver user-centric solutions.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Captivateiq 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design for high-impact initiatives within their product area, from discovery through launch and iteration, while proactively shaping problem definition. They will drive the product experience point of view, ensuring solutions deliver measurable customer value and support business outcomes.
Senior UX Designer #379
🇸🇬 Singapore
Avepoint 🇸🇬 Singapore
This senior role involves guiding UX design practices across the Ministry of Social and Family Development cluster, requiring both hands-on design expertise and leadership in cross-ministry initiatives. The designer will work closely with senior stakeholders on multiple projects spanning citizen-facing applications and case management systems.
UI/UX Designer
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Avepoint 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The role involves leading end-to-end visual design efforts from concept to final delivery while collaborating with cross-functional teams including product managers, UX designers, developers, and QA teams. Key tasks include conducting user research, creating prototypes, ensuring design consistency via pattern libraries, and mentoring junior designers.
Lead Product Designer, Integrity
🇲🇾 Petaling Jaya, Petaling, Malaysia
Grab 🇲🇾 Petaling Jaya, Petaling, Malaysia
The Lead Product Designer will be responsible for creating user-centric solutions for internal and enterprise web tools, as well as mobile applications, driving the design process and influencing strategic decisions. This role involves tackling complex problem areas in collaboration with Product, Analytics, Engineering, and Business teams while advocating for design excellence and system-wide approaches.
Staff Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Freshworks 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
This individual contributor role will lead the design for intelligent, human-centered experiences powered by the Freshworks AI platform across the product portfolio, shaping user interaction with AI in service, IT, sales, and marketing functions. The designer will contribute to and define the UX strategy for both AI infrastructure and product-specific AI use cases, working cross-functionally to ship world-class solutions.
Staff Product Designer - AI Agent Studio
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Freshworks 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
This individual contributor role will lead the design for intelligent, human-centered AI experiences across the Freshworks product portfolio, shaping user interaction with machine learning, automation, and generative AI in daily workflows. The role involves defining the UX strategy for both AI infrastructure and product-specific use cases while collaborating closely with Product and Engineering teams.
Senior Product Designer (Trading)
🌍 Remote
Trust Wallet 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design for core Trust Wallet products, developing user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups informed by domain knowledge and research. This role involves owning product strategy alongside PMs and engineers, ensuring seamless implementation while advocating strongly for design standards for millions of users.
Sr. Graphic Designer - Retail (m/f/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Holy Softdrinks Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the execution of the brand's physical experience at the point of sale, designing and producing retail display materials, in-store fixtures, and retail packaging for new product lines. They will also build sales decks and brochures for the sales team and deliver production-ready print files across all retail formats.
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.