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Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
Develop 🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States of America
You will steer product direction and elevate design quality while influencing teams across global locations. The role involves acting as a high-impact leader at the intersection of product, design, and engineering to shape the company's AI-native future.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America
Milani Cosmetics 🇺🇸 Culver City, CA 90232, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will shape brand expression across retail, packaging, and physical consumer experiences by developing key visuals and scalable design systems. They will partner with the Art Director to translate campaign strategies into compelling retail environments while providing quality control for production designers.
Principal Project Manager / Design Manager
🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
Pm Group 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
The Principal Project Manager will provide strategic leadership for the full project lifecycle, ensuring flawless design delivery and engineering execution. They will act as a senior client interface while coordinating multidisciplinary teams to drive performance across cost, schedule, quality, and safety metrics.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Remitly 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will drive strategic design work for core remittance products while managing the end-to-end design process. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, and research to deliver cohesive, user-centric experiences.
Senior Millwork Engineer / Project Design Manager
🇺🇸 Pantego, Tarrant County, TX 76013, United States of America
Anton Cabinetry 🇺🇸 Pantego, Tarrant County, TX 76013, United States of America
Lead custom architectural millwork projects by managing design, engineering, and technical execution from concept through installation. Collaborate with project managers, customers, and architectural teams to develop buildable solutions and ensure high-quality fit and finish.
Senior UX Designer, Kiro
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for the Kiro platform, focusing on creating intuitive workflows for developers interacting with autonomous AI agents. This role involves conducting user research, developing concept models, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to shape the future of agentic software development.
Senior UX Researcher, Mixed Methods (Quant-Leaning)
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Suno 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead quantitative and qualitative research initiatives to inform pricing, packaging, and subscription strategies. This involves designing advanced studies, building longitudinal measurement systems, and translating complex data into actionable product recommendations.
Senior / Staff UX Researcher, Qualitative
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Suno 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
You will own the foundational qualitative research agenda for mobile product development, conducting generative studies to shape product strategy. You will partner closely with product managers and designers to translate user insights into actionable design principles and product bets.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Remitly 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will manage the end-to-end design process for core remittance products, including discovery, wireframing, and high-fidelity prototyping. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define customer problems and drive strategic design initiatives that deliver meaningful value.
Senior Product Designer
🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
Sanlam 🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
The Senior Product Designer will design key product experiences for Sanlam Fintech x's digital channels using current design methodologies. Responsibilities include conducting user research, creating prototypes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality UX and interaction design deliverables.
Senior Product Designer - Mijn Taken
🇳🇱 Veghel, North Brabant, Netherlands
Jumbo Supermarkten 🇳🇱 Veghel, North Brabant, Netherlands
You will shape the 'Mijn Taken' platform by translating research insights into user-friendly product visions and validated designs. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders and development teams to improve operational workflows for store employees.
Senior UX Designer (m/w/d)
🇨🇭 Bern, Bern-Mittelland, Switzerland
Ekkiden 🇨🇭 Bern, Bern-Mittelland, Switzerland
The Senior UX Designer will lead user research, create wireframes and prototypes, and ensure digital services meet accessibility standards. They will collaborate closely with product owners, business analysts, and development teams to validate solutions through usability testing.
Senior Graphic Designer, Brand & Creative
Remote (🇵🇭 Philippines)
Cloud Accountant Staffing Remote (🇵🇭 Philippines)
The Senior Graphic Designer will own and evolve the company's visual identity, including typography, color, and layout systems. They are responsible for creative direction, producing campaign assets, motion graphics, and ensuring all visual output remains consistent and high-quality.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Sotheby's 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead the design of digital features for both customer-facing applications and internal operational tools. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to conduct user research, map workflows, and ensure high-quality design execution.
Senior UX Designer, AWS Field Experience
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for new and existing solutions, from big-picture conception to final execution. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to align on product vision while advocating for design excellence and user-centricity.
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.