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Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Faire 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will collaborate with product and engineering partners to define, build, and release new products and features, constructing user flows, wireframes, and prototypes to communicate design concepts. They will also develop high-fidelity visuals, participate in user research, write UX content, and contribute strategic thinking to the product roadmap.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Way 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The role involves leading the end-to-end design of product features, including discovery, prototyping, and polished UI, while collaborating closely with engineering for high-quality implementation. Responsibilities also include running lightweight research, partnering with stakeholders to define solutions, and contributing to brand design needs.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Artsy 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will be responsible for transforming Artsy into the discovery portal for new collectors by designing high-impact, top-of-funnel experiences that drive customer acquisition and brand building, often at the intersection of AI-powered personalization. This involves owning design-led customer acquisition strategies, designing discovery journeys, and integrating qualitative and quantitative data to continuously improve user experience.
UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Woodbridge Township, NJ 08830, United States of America)
Sago Remote (🇺🇸 Woodbridge Township, NJ 08830, United States of America)
The UX Designer will create compelling user-centered designs by conducting user interviews and usability tests, leading UX design efforts for new features from concept to launch, and refining interfaces for client and end-user facing systems. They will also collaborate closely with product teams to align on goals and deliverables, create design artifacts, and contribute to user stories.
Principal Product Designer
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Syfe 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
The Principal Product Designer will lead design strategy for critical company initiatives by partnering with executives and senior leaders across Product, Engineering, and Business. They will define and drive the vision for complex, cross-functional product areas while establishing design frameworks and best practices to elevate quality.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Lpa, Inc. 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the conceptualization and execution of high-quality visual designs across digital and print platforms while maintaining and evolving brand identity systems. Responsibilities also include providing creative direction for Catalyst magazine, designing various brand materials, and developing new department processes for workflow elevation.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Oneonta, NY 13861, United States of America
Springbrook 🇺🇸 Oneonta, NY 13861, United States of America
The Junior Graphic Designer supports marketing goals by producing engaging print and digital materials such as brochures, social media graphics, and signage under the direction of leadership. This role involves executing designs, taking direction from senior team members, and ensuring all materials align with brand standards.
Senior Graphic Designer – CCB Communications, Consumer Banking
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Jpmorgan Chase & Co. 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Serve as the lead executive presentation designer for Consumer & Community Banking (CCB) Communications, owning the visual design, structure, and storytelling for high-stakes leadership forums and events. Partner with strategists and stakeholders to translate complex narratives and data into clear, persuasive, and visually refined executive presentations.
Lead Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Jll 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Lead Product Designer will be directly responsible for leading product design activity across multiple products for JLL with a high degree of independence, while also supporting and mentoring more junior Product Designers. This role involves leading the design process from problem discovery through implementation, delivering compelling visual experiences, and guiding design decisions through analytics and research.
Product Designer (Staff / Principal Level)
Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
Anima Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
The role involves leading end-to-end design for multiple new opportunities, shaping the product roadmap, and building out the design standards and tools for the future.
Senior UX Designer - Vice President
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Jpmorgan Chase & Co. 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The role involves driving product design excellence for complex end-to-end B2B products, creating design artifacts across all project phases from concept to launch. Responsibilities include leading user research, managing stakeholders, and advocating for customer-centric design using data insights.
Staff Product Designer (They/She/He)
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Delivery Hero 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Staff Product Designer will act as a strategic partner to define team strategy, influence major product decisions, and shape roadmaps for complex initiatives while defining the long-term user experience vision for their area. This role involves leading the entire design process from concept through high-fidelity implementation and serving on the UX leadership team to ensure design consistency.
Product Designer Senior H/F
🇫🇷 Lille, Nord, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Lille, Nord, France
The Senior Product Designer will lead an UX/UI team within the client's IT department, overseeing the proposal of optimized solutions across various projects. Key duties include managing the design team, supervising user research, directing design strategy with product teams, analyzing tests, ensuring UX consistency, and creating wireframes and prototypes.
Lead Product Designer (B2B Sponsorship Platform)
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Two Circles 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Lead Product Designer will be responsible for leading design across multiple domains of the Partnership Intelligence platform, shaping the end-to-end user experience for commercial and partnership teams. This includes defining UX direction, evolving the design system, and ensuring consistency across complex, data-heavy tools.
Sr. Product Designer
🇺🇸 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
Dealerware 🇺🇸 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead design across the full product development lifecycle, from discovery through launch, by immersing themselves with dealership teams to identify friction points and design intelligent, human-centered workflows. This involves designing end-to-end service experiences, obsessing over every touchpoint, and utilizing modern AI tooling to reduce manual work and build trust.
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.