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Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City Subdistrict, India
Hsbc 🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City Subdistrict, India
Lead the end-to-end design of intuitive and accessible digital experiences by translating customer needs into effective product solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive the evolution of design systems and maintain global brand standards.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City Subdistrict, India
Hsbc 🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City Subdistrict, India
Lead the end-to-end design of intuitive and accessible digital experiences by translating customer needs into product solutions. Drive the evolution of design systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve usability and design standards.
Senior Retail Design Manager, Global Real Estate Services
🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Hsbc 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Lead the global retail branch design proposition by setting standards and shaping future formats aligned with customer and channel strategies. Oversee design governance, assurance, and the management of strategic partners and consultants across multiple global markets.
Staff Product Designer (Multiple Openings)
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Faire 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
As a Staff Product Designer, you will define the vision by identifying gaps and influencing roadmap prioritization while leading end-to-end design processes. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to explore new paradigms and push the design system forward.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Upkeep 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Lead and shape the future of Product Design at UpKeep, driving the user experience vision across the platform. Establish processes, standards, and culture that enable world-class design while collaborating closely with Product and Engineering teams.
Graphic Design Manager
🇺🇸 Orlando, Florida, United States of America
Andretti Indoor Karting & Games 🇺🇸 Orlando, Florida, United States of America
Manage the visual identity and brand consistency of Andretti Indoor Karting & Games across all nationwide locations. Lead the development of marketing materials for consumer promotions, corporate sales, and new store openings.
Senior UX Researcher
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Intact 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Senior UX Researcher will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to identify information gaps and ensure a user-centered design process. They will lead user research studies, analyze data, and communicate findings to influence design strategies.
Staff Product Designer, Customer Experience Orchestration
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead the design of complex, multi-surface AI experiences for the Customer Experience Orchestration team, focusing on both practitioner tools and end-customer surfaces. Guide a squad of designers through ambiguity to deliver scalable, user-centered solutions while raising the overall craft bar through mentorship.
Lead UX Researcher & Strategist
🇺🇸 Reynoldsburg, Ohio, United States of America
Victoria’s Secret & Co. 🇺🇸 Reynoldsburg, Ohio, United States of America
The Lead UX Researcher & Strategist will drive high-impact research initiatives that shape product direction and influence business decisions. This role involves leading end-to-end UX research, synthesizing insights, and mentoring other researchers.
Product Design Manager, Adobe Experience Platform
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead a squad of product designers for the Adobe Experience Platform, focusing on team growth, quality standards, and operational excellence. Partner with Product Management and Engineering to shape roadmaps and advocate for design's impact on business outcomes.
Partner 20, Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
A16z 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own and evolve the firm's design infrastructure by translating brand systems into scalable templates, AI-powered tools, and modular frameworks. Build repeatable systems and lightweight apps to enable non-designers to produce high-quality, on-brand work independently.
Staff Product Designer, Supply (Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Ezcater Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead design independently across large, complex projects from discovery to execution. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to shape roadmaps and ensure coherence across user experiences.
Senior Visual Designer (Keynote/Press Events)
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Run Studios 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Senior Visual Designer will lead concept development and visual communication design for live keynote events, creating polished visual assets across various media. They will collaborate with teams to ensure visual continuity and quality during presentations.
Partner 20, Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Andreessen Horowitz 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Design Systems Lead will own and evolve the design systems infrastructure, ensuring quality, consistency, and scalability. This role involves translating the a16z brand into usable templates and components while building tools that empower non-designers to create on-brand work independently.
Partner 20, Design Systems Lead
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Andreessen Horowitz 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Design Systems Lead will own and evolve the design systems infrastructure, ensuring quality, consistency, and scalability. This role involves translating the a16z brand into usable templates and components while building tools that empower non-designers to create on-brand work independently.
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.