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Senior Product Designer, Design System
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Zeta Global Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will own the strategy, architecture, and evolution of the design system for the Zeta Developer Platform, defining components, patterns, and documentation to ensure consistency and quality at scale. This role involves building production-ready, accessible components in close collaboration with engineering and championing the system's adoption across the organization.
Senior Product Designer, Agentic AI Applications
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Zeta Global Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves building the foundation of Agentic & Vertical Apps by owning experiences in Figma, managing the App Creation Process, and partnering closely with Product and Engineering to define strategy and execution. Responsibilities also include advancing AI-Driven Design Patterns, raising the bar on craft quality, and influencing/mentoring the design team to scale high-quality applications.
Senior UI Designer F/H
🇫🇷 Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Thales 🇫🇷 Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
The Senior UI Designer will be responsible for transforming complex business needs into simple, effective, and coherent visual solutions, designing high-quality UI assets like mockups and prototypes, and actively contributing to the evolution and maintenance of the Design System. They will also collaborate closely with development teams to ensure design recommendations are correctly implemented and participate in user testing and design reviews.
Graphic Designer - Chinese Speaker
🇲🇾 Malaysia
Exinity 🇲🇾 Malaysia
The Senior Designer will lead the design and execution of creative assets for the Asia market across digital, print, and motion, focusing on translating complex financial concepts into clear, engaging, and compliant visuals. Key duties include collaborating with regional teams, ensuring adherence to brand and regulatory standards, and adapting global concepts for local markets.
Senior Product Designer, Architecture and Systems
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Netflix 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
This role involves architecting the strategy for platform systems and design scaling to ensure cross-squad resilience, while leading the UX strategy for foundational platform features like navigation and notification frameworks. The designer will also partner with engineering to maintain standardized components and evangelize paved-path frameworks for adoption velocity.
Senior Product Designer II - POS Designer
🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Yum! 🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
This role involves providing experience leadership for the Point of Sale (POS) platform, shaping design direction across multiple initiatives, and identifying systemic UX challenges to ensure a cohesive and scalable experience. As a senior individual contributor, the designer will act as the design lead for POS, influencing strategy and driving convergence across teams.
Senior Product Designer II - Inventory Designer
🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
Yum! 🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States of America
This role involves owning the end-to-end user experience for Inventory, working closely with Product Management and Engineering from problem framing through detailed execution. The designer will focus on creating clear, fast, and reliable experiences for complex operational challenges impacting restaurant performance.
Senior Product Designer, Growth
Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Talkspace Corporate Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
The role involves owning the end-to-end member onboarding experience, from sign-up through the first session, by balancing iterative improvements with a long-term vision. Key tasks include improving activation and early engagement through rapid experimentation and designing personalized experiences leveraging AI.
Senior Product Designer - Barcelona
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Wizeline 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Senior Product Designer will conceptualize, design, and deliver intuitive and visually appealing user interfaces while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure effective design solutions. Responsibilities also include translating insights into artifacts like personas and prototypes, advocating for customer needs, and evolving the design system.
Product Designer, App Store
🇺🇸 Cupertino, California, United States of America
Apple 🇺🇸 Cupertino, California, United States of America
The role involves researching, designing, and prototyping new user experiences based on product requirements across all App Store platforms, delivering mockups, visual assets, and implementation documentation to engineering teams. The designer will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams like Engineering, Marketing, and Senior Management in a dynamic, deadline-driven setting.
Senior Product Designer – Business Customers (x,f,m)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Dkb Code Factory 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior Product Designer will define and drive a clear design vision across business banking initiatives while collaborating closely with cross-functional partners to influence decisions and reduce delivery risks. Responsibilities also include planning and conducting user research, translating complex requirements into scalable designs, and mentoring other designers.
Graphic Designer | Senior | Saily
🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Nord Security 🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
The Senior Graphic Designer will develop innovative design concepts for marketing campaigns across various NordSecurity products and create diverse creative assets for channels like websites, video, and social media. They will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure brand alignment, manage projects end-to-end, and mentor junior designers.
Graphic Designer | Mid-Senior | Saily
🇱🇹 Kaunas, Kauno miesto savivaldybė, Lithuania
Nord Security 🇱🇹 Kaunas, Kauno miesto savivaldybė, Lithuania
The role involves developing innovative design concepts for marketing campaigns and creating diverse creative assets for various channels like websites, social media, and video, while ensuring alignment with brand guidelines across different Nord Security products.
Sr. Graphic Designer
🇵🇰 Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan
Fleekbiz Pvt Ltd 🇵🇰 Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the creative process for various design projects, from initial concept through to final completion, focusing on optimizing brand visibility across web and mobile applications. This role involves close collaboration with sales and marketing teams to develop visually compelling designs that meet specific business objectives.
Graphic Designer, Senior
🇺🇸 Chantilly, VA 20153, United States of America
Booz Allen Hamilton 🇺🇸 Chantilly, VA 20153, United States of America
This role involves converting client needs into innovative digital design, marketing collateral, and outreach materials, focusing on high-visibility mission-critical infographics, data visualizations, and publications for senior U.S. government staff. The designer will collaborate with a communications team to implement visual communications projects while ensuring the timely delivery of products.
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.