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Staff Product Designer
🇨🇦 Canada
Pantheon Systems, Inc 🇨🇦 Canada
Define UX/UI strategy and lead product direction for key areas of the Pantheon product roadmap. This hybrid role involves designing, building, and driving product strategy while partnering with engineering and product leadership.
Principal Product Designer, Supply (Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Ezcater Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Define and drive the design strategy for the Supply ecosystem, ensuring a user-centered vision that aligns with business goals. Lead cross-domain design initiatives and mentor designers to elevate the overall design quality and impact.
Senior Packaging Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Pasadena, California, United States of America
Likely Inc. 🇺🇸 Pasadena, California, United States of America
Lead packaging design projects from concept through production and develop brand guidelines specifically for packaging systems. Collaborate closely with production teams to ensure design intent is maintained throughout the development process.
User Experience Design Manager
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Mastercard 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Lead the creation of conceptual prototypes and quick-to-market pilots for Fortune 500 clients using traditional and AI-powered design methods. Collaborate with engineers and creatives to deliver innovation events at client sites and conduct UX expert reviews.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Pantheon Systems, Inc 🇺🇸 United States of America
Define UX/UI strategy and lead product direction for key areas of the Pantheon product roadmap. This hybrid role involves designing, building, and driving product strategy while mentoring other designers.
Staff Product Designer, Supply (Remote)
Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Ezcater, Inc Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Lead the end-to-end design process for complex product areas within the Restaurant Partner Experience organization. Partner with Product and Engineering to shape roadmaps, define success metrics, and maintain high craft standards through the design system.
Senior Own Brand Packaging & Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Bloomon 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The role involves developing design routes for new own-brand products and packaging, collaborating with various teams from brief to production. The designer will also manage multiple projects and support the Lead Physical Product Designer in creating visualizations and proposals.
Senior Visual Designer
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Dept® 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead and deliver exceptional visual design across high-profile digital campaigns and e-commerce platforms. Collaborate with UX designers and present creative concepts to client stakeholders.
Senior Product Designer (Boosters R&D)
Remote (🇺🇦 Ukraine)
Genesis Remote (🇺🇦 Ukraine)
The role involves leading the entire design direction for a new product, from ideation and user research to implementation and collaboration with developers. Key tasks include designing UX/UI for new features, building a design system, and conducting usability tests to iterate based on feedback.
Senior Visual Designer
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Dept® 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Lead and execute high-fidelity visual design and art direction for digital campaigns, e-commerce platforms, and interactive content. Own the motion landscape and create interactive prototypes to demonstrate user flows and brand storytelling.
Mechanical Design Engineering Program Manager
🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Belcan 🇺🇸 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
The Mechanical Design Engineering Program Manager will drive engineering programs from planning through to completion while managing project schedules and ensuring customer milestones are met. They will also provide technical execution and project leadership for the engineering team, coordinating all technical activities to assure project accuracy and delivery.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America
Guidehouse 🇺🇸 McLean, VA 22101, United States of America
Lead user-centered design for web and mobile applications, translating research and product goals into intuitive interfaces. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and ensure designs are implemented effectively.
Senior Product Designer - AAA
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Datadog 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead design for platform features that impact user experience at scale, working closely with PM and engineering partners. You will develop subject matter expertise and drive the roadmap while ensuring a coherent experience across different contexts.
UI/UX Design Manager (Fully Remote)
Remote (🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates)
Puffy Remote (🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates)
The UI/UX Design Manager will lead the design team in integrating AI into the design process, focusing on e-commerce web design. This role involves mentoring the team and presenting design decisions that impact business strategy directly to the CEO.
Senior UX Designer
🇳🇴 Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway
Eg A/s 🇳🇴 Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway
As a Senior UX Designer, you will lead user research and discovery, translating insights into design solutions. You will take ownership of the full design process, from concept to implementation, and work closely with your agile product team.
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.