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Staff Product Designer
🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
Netflix 🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
The Staff Product Designer will lead design vision and strategy for analytics and data experiences, focusing on creating intuitive, end-to-end workflows that boost practitioner productivity and reduce cognitive load across discovery, development, and analysis stages. This involves driving design execution for complex data workflows, establishing scalable design patterns, and partnering closely with product and engineering leadership to define long-term strategy.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Ford Motor Company 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
As a Lead Designer, you will combine strategy, design, and prototyping to bring new in-vehicle experiences to life, transforming loosely defined concepts into clear, testable journeys that can be built and scaled. Responsibilities include defining customer journeys, partnering with engineers to explore feasibility, and distilling complex information into clear strategies and narratives.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Agencyanalytics 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design side of the AgencyAnalytics design system, focusing on its maintenance, evolution, and configuration using an AI-native approach, while ensuring alignment with design principles and product objectives. This role involves significant hands-on work (80%) improving components and workflows, alongside strategic input (20%) on long-term system governance and platform evolution.
Senior Product Designer - Senior Associate
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Jpmorgan Chase & Co. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead a product design workstream and collaborate with cross-functional teams to create solutions for complex business problems. You will develop a deep understanding of user needs and business goals to craft detailed designs for data-rich experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇸🇮 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Planet 🇸🇮 Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for geospatial web applications, transforming satellite data into mission-critical intelligence for a next-generation monitoring platform. Key duties include creating intuitive geospatial interfaces, defining interaction patterns, conducting user research, and collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇱 Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands
Planet 🇳🇱 Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end product design process, from discovery through high-fidelity design, focusing on creating intuitive, powerful geospatial web applications that transform satellite data into mission-critical intelligence. Key duties include defining interaction patterns, architecting the design system for the monitoring platform, and collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Planet 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for geospatial web applications, transforming satellite data into mission-critical intelligence for a next-generation monitoring platform. Key duties include creating intuitive geospatial interfaces, defining interaction patterns and design systems, and collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇹 Graz, Styria, Austria
Planet 🇦🇹 Graz, Styria, Austria
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end product design process, from discovery through high-fidelity design, focusing on creating intuitive, powerful geospatial web applications that transform satellite data into mission-critical intelligence. Key duties include defining UI architecture, architecting interaction patterns, conducting user research, and partnering with product and engineering teams to ensure high design quality for the next-generation monitoring platform.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Ghost 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will lead design across core platforms, defining and evolving interaction patterns for AI-powered workflows like pricing, matching, and routing. This includes driving deep discovery, designing complex marketplace surfaces, and thinking in systems across interconnected user experiences.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Nexhealth 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves owning end-to-end design execution across critical surfaces, focusing on user clarity and product simplicity, particularly within NexHealth payments. Responsibilities include leading product scope, shaping technical implementation through design-first thinking, and building scalable design systems.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Nexhealth 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The role involves owning end-to-end UX design across NexHealth payments, including research, flows, wireframes, prototypes, and final UI, while leading product scope and shaping technical implementation through design-first thinking. Responsibilities also include building and evolving design systems and championing user clarity, accessibility, and precision across all surfaces.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Nexhealth 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves owning end-to-end UX design across NexHealth payments, including research, flows, wireframes, prototypes, and final UI, while leading product scope and shaping technical implementation through design-first thinking. Responsibilities also include building and evolving design systems and championing user clarity and accessibility across all surfaces.
Lead Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Keeper Security Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Lead Product Designer will own the end-to-end experience across Keeper's web and product surfaces, shaping how users discover, adopt, and love the product by turning complex problems into clear, elegant, and high-impact design solutions. This role involves leading and growing a team of designers while partnering with Product, Engineering, and leadership to set high standards for craft and systems thinking.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Ltk Usa Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead high-impact design work across LTK’s Brand and Creator platforms, owning meaningful product surfaces end-to-end from discovery through delivery. This role involves framing ambiguous problems, partnering with Product and Engineering, and ensuring design decisions connect to measurable business outcomes like creator growth and revenue performance.
Staff Product Designer, Discovery Experience
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Faire 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will define the vision for search and discovery experiences across Faire's ecosystem, leading the end-to-end design process from discovery to execution. This role involves collaborating cross-functionally to explore new paradigms like AI-assisted search and evolving 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.