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Senior Product Designer - Core Products
🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States of America
Franconnect, Llc 🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States of America
The role involves designing features and workflows for complex, data-rich B2B SaaS products, partnering with Product Managers to create intuitive UX solutions, and contributing to the design system. Responsibilities also include conducting research using product analytics and collaborating with Engineering teams to deliver high-quality designs.
Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lumin Digital Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Product Designer will contribute to various product areas, supporting senior designers on strategic initiatives while taking ownership of smaller, scoped design projects from concept through execution. This involves close collaboration with Product Managers, Engineers, and Researchers to translate ideas into functional designs and incorporating user research insights.
Product Designer (VXA)
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Epidemic Sound 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end product design for the core workspace, shaping the day-to-day user experience from onboarding through scaling hundreds of ads weekly. Key responsibilities include defining workflows for brand DNA onboarding, template creation, creative generation, and editor improvements.
Senior Product Designer, Consumer Growth (SPD0226)
🇬🇷 Athens, Central Athens, Greece
Skroutz S.a 🇬🇷 Athens, Central Athens, Greece
The designer will be responsible for crafting experiences that drive user loyalty, evolve the Skroutz Plus ecosystem, and create engaging mechanics like Coins and Missions, collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineers to define roadmaps.
Senior Product Designer UX/UI
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Campfirefm Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end UX/UI design for mobile applications and the creator-focused web platform, rapidly prototyping experiences often directly in code using tools like Expo/React Native and AI assistance. They will also be responsible for shaping the visual language and component systems while collaborating closely with engineering to ensure successful shipping of designs.
Senior Product Designer - ShareGate Protect
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Workleap - En Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
The Senior Product Designer will own high-complexity problem spaces end-to-end, from concept through launch and iteration, while shaping product vision and influencing the roadmap using strong UX perspectives and customer insights. Responsibilities include designing intuitive, trustworthy AI-powered experiences and leading fast discovery loops using behavioral signals and in-product data to inform decisions.
Senior Product Designer - ShareGate Protect
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Sharegate- En Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
The Senior Product Designer will own complex problem spaces end-to-end, from concept through iteration, while shaping product vision and influencing the roadmap using strong UX perspectives and customer insights. A key focus is designing intuitive, trustworthy, and valuable AI-powered experiences that guide users through governance issues.
Senior Product Designer, Consumer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Realtor.com Careers 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The designer will collaborate closely with cross-functional partners in Product and Engineering to create and execute a bold vision, responsible for understanding, scoping, and shipping polished experiences for 75 million monthly active users across web and native applications. This role involves leading the design process from conception to completion, elevating craft through thoughtful feedback, and actively contributing to the evolution of the design system.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina)
Xometry Remote (🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina)
The Senior Product Designer will design user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI for features within their Product Area, translating requirements into usable design solutions. They will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Research teams throughout the entire product lifecycle and ensure designs adhere to standards and provide clear engineering handoff documentation.
Senior Product Designer - Design Systems
Remote (🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina)
Xometry Remote (🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina)
The Senior Product Designer will design, maintain, and evolve the company's design system, focusing on UI components, patterns, and foundations like color and typography. This role involves close collaboration with engineering to ensure components are production-ready and supporting product designers in the effective use of the system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Ccc Intelligent Solutions 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Senior/Lead Product Designer will be responsible for owning end-to-end experiences within a business vertical or product portfolio, collaborating with product, engineering, research, and data teams to create scalable, high-impact solutions. This includes designing and evolving complex workflows for diverse personas while leveraging AI-enabled tools to accelerate ideation and testing.
Senior Staff UX Designer - Design System
Remote (🇺🇸 Illinois, United States of America)
Workiva Inc. Remote (🇺🇸 Illinois, United States of America)
This role involves owning the strategy, execution, and measurement of company-wide Design Foundations initiatives, including leading the architecture and long-term evolution of the enterprise design system to ensure it is inclusive and extensible. The designer will partner deeply with Product Management and Engineering to prioritize roadmaps, define system governance, establish success metrics, and mentor other designers to raise organizational design maturity.
Senior UX Researcher, Product Experimentation (Inventors)
🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
Woven By Toyota 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
The Senior UX Researcher will design and lead applied research for inventor-led Proofs of Concept (PoCs) and experiments, particularly in robotics and mobility domains. This involves planning and executing user studies using various methods and providing data-driven recommendations to inventors and stakeholders.
Senior UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Fivetran 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
The Senior UX Researcher will plan, manage, and execute user research programs across focused product areas, collaborating with design, product, and analytics to align projects with stakeholder and user needs. They will also guide teams on research methodology, synthesize learnings from past research and data, and lead ideation sessions to inform product development.
Senior Product Designer, AI
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Zeta Global Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves owning and evolving the end-to-end Zeta Developer Platform experience, focusing on conversational interfaces, contextual guidance, and AI-driven workflows. Responsibilities also include partnering with the Design Systems team to evolve scalable UX/UI patterns and defining how the platform communicates intent, progress, and limitations of intelligent systems.
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.