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Senior Product Designer at fast-growing HR tech startup
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Jack & Jill/external Ats 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the design process for a platform aimed at improving hiring and talent management. You will work closely with product and engineering teams to create intuitive user experiences.
Senior Product Designer, Risk and Protection
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Turo 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the design process from research to delivery, focusing on creating user experiences that enhance safety and trust in the marketplace. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive key decisions and optimize financial outcomes while ensuring a stellar user experience.
Principal Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Neo Financial 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
As a Principal Product Designer, you will lead the definition, creation, and delivery of impactful design solutions across various digital platforms. You will work with cross-functional teams to drive design vision and strategy while mentoring design colleagues.
Lead Product Designer, Loom
🌍 Remote
Atlassian 🌍 Remote
As Lead Product Designer, you will own the end-to-end video creation experience and drive high fidelity designs. You will collaborate with various teams to deliver innovative features and champion AI-first thinking.
Lead Product Designer, Confluence AI
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Atlassian 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
The Lead AI Product Designer will drive key design initiatives for Confluence AI, focusing on creating seamless, intelligent experiences. This role involves collaborating with various teams to enhance AI and collaboration experiences at Atlassian.
Lead Product Designer, Loom
🌍 Remote
Atlassian 🌍 Remote
As Lead Product Designer, you will own the end-to-end creation experience for Loom, focusing on recording, generation, and editing. You will also prototype and ship innovative ideas, especially those leveraging AI for video creation.
Senior Product Designer, Marketplace
🇮🇳 Bangalore North, Karnataka, India
Atlassian 🇮🇳 Bangalore North, Karnataka, India
The Senior Product Designer will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other designers to create user-centric designs and lead design projects from concept to execution. They will also utilize data-driven insights to inform design decisions and engage with customers for feedback.
Senior Product Designer at High-growth Logistics SaaS
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Jack & Jill/external Ats 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end design process for a core product area within a global logistics platform. Transform complex workflows into intuitive desktop experiences used by supply chain professionals.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Carlsbad, California, United States
Harman International 🇺🇸 Carlsbad, California, United States
Lead the UI/UX design process from initial concept to developer hand-off, ensuring intuitive and engaging interfaces. Collaborate with UX designers, product managers, and engineers while mentoring junior designers.
Silicon Design Engineering Manager
🇹🇼 Taiwan
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc 🇹🇼 Taiwan
Lead a high-performance engineering team and manage the Silicon Engineering group. Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to innovate and deliver next-generation computing technologies.
Senior Manager Silicon Design Engineering
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Lead a Silicon Engineering group to innovate with internal teams and external partners. Collaborate with architecture, physical design, and product engineers to achieve first pass silicon success.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Lead Bank 🇺🇸 United States
You will own the end-to-end user experience for one or more product verticals, driving the design vision and contributing to the evolution of Lead’s design system. This role involves collaborating with various teams to deliver user-focused designs and managing the entire product design lifecycle.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Fox Corporation 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
As a Senior Product Designer, you will own the end-to-end design strategy and execution for complex products, focusing on content discovery and personalization. You will lead the design of features from concept to launch and drive alignment with cross-functional teams.
Product Designer Consultant (Design Systems) at Well-funded healthtech SaaS
🇹🇹 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Jack & Jill/external Ats 🇹🇹 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
You will lead the transformation of the product’s foundational design architecture for a growing healthtech platform. This includes conducting a comprehensive audit of the existing design system and collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Principal Product Designer
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Neo Financial 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
As a Principal Product Designer, you will lead the definition, creation, and delivery of impactful design solutions across various digital platforms. You will work with cross-functional teams to drive design vision and strategy while mentoring design colleagues.
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.