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Senior Product Designer - Loyalty (all genders)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Zalando 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead the strategic UX and visual direction for the Zalando Plus loyalty ecosystem, designing gamified systems and high-level design visions. Mentor other designers and collaborate with cross-functional leadership to align business strategy with emotional customer experiences.
Staff Engineer, Digital Design Engineering
100010 China, Dongcheng District, Donghuashi Subdistrict, 崇文门东大街, Beijing
Analog Devices 100010 China, Dongcheng District, Donghuashi Subdistrict, 崇文门东大街, Beijing
Lead the digital SoC design for high-performance MCU, DSP, and NPU products used in automotive and industrial applications. Manage the full design cycle from architecture definition and RTL development through to physical implementation and silicon bring-up.
Technical Lead Product Designer - AI Private Banker
🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
Nubank 🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
Lead a team of designers and writers to create an AI-powered private banking experience and establish foundational design systems for the company. Act as a technical reference to increase design quality and influence business decisions through user-centered design advocacy.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Leap Group 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the discovery process through user research and synthesize findings into actionable insights and design opportunities. Design and deliver user-centered digital experiences while maintaining scalable design systems and mentoring fellow designers.
Senior Web Designer - NOAA Programs
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Omni Tax Solutions 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lead the development, maintenance, and optimization of organizational websites through template building and navigation enhancement. Track and interpret website analytics to provide data-driven recommendations to leadership while managing internal digital repositories.
Business Solution Design Manager
🇸🇬 Singapore
Capital Group 🇸🇬 Singapore
Lead and implement business, digital, data, and AI solutions to drive strategic decisions and expand investment products in the Asia-Pacific region. Partner with global stakeholders to design and implement strategic directions considering people, process, technology, and data dimensions.
Senior UX Researcher
🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Aj Bell 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end UX research for complex D2C problem spaces to inform product and business decisions. Collaborate with Product Managers and UX Designers to translate customer insights into actionable product improvements.
Senior Product Designer - Flex Hiring
🇦🇺 Cremorne TAS 7024, Australia
Seek 🇦🇺 Cremorne TAS 7024, Australia
Lead the end-to-end design of hiring experiences, connecting customer-facing interactions with backstage operational workflows and platform capabilities. Drive product direction through discovery, research, and the application of AI to improve hiring outcomes and trust architecture.
Senior Brand Design Manager
🇨🇳 Pudong, Shanghai, China
Henkel Group 🇨🇳 Pudong, Shanghai, China
Develop category strategies and a five-year pipeline to drive brand growth in the China market. Lead the end-to-end New Product Development (NPD) process from conceptualization and validation to launch tracking and brand playbook creation.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Leap Group 🇺🇸 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Lead the discovery process through user research and synthesize findings into actionable product insights and design opportunities. Design and deliver user-centered digital experiences while maintaining scalable design systems and mentoring fellow designers.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
Leap Group 🇺🇸 Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
Lead the discovery process through user research and synthesize findings into actionable insights and design opportunities. Design and deliver user-centered digital experiences while maintaining scalable design systems and mentoring fellow designers.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Leap Group 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Lead the discovery process through user research and synthesize findings into actionable product insights and design opportunities. Design and deliver user-centered digital experiences while maintaining scalable design systems and mentoring fellow designers.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Leap Group 🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Lead the discovery process through user research and synthesize findings into actionable product insights and design opportunities. Design and deliver user-centered digital experiences while maintaining scalable design systems and mentoring fellow designers.
Lead Product Designer - Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
Verkada 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
You will define and maintain the core Figma component library, tokens, and documentation to serve as the digital source of truth. Additionally, you will bridge the gap between design and engineering to ensure scalable, accessible, and pixel-perfect implementation across various interfaces.
Head of Design
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Recruitmark 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead the end-to-end design and engineering function for modular data centre solutions while defining technical direction and strategy. Oversee multi-disciplinary teams to ensure designs are innovative, compliant with Australian standards, and commercially viable.
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.