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Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Tes 🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
The role requires hands-on delivery across the entire design lifecycle, producing strategic deliverables like service maps and logic flows, while also setting the standard for design quality and mentoring junior team members. Key duties involve leading discovery efforts, balancing business goals with user needs, and ensuring complex user flows and information architecture are defined.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Backops-ai 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for a core product area, partnering closely with product and engineering from discovery through delivery and iteration. Responsibilities include planning and conducting user research, creating design artifacts in Figma, and contributing to the evolution of the design system.
Staff Product Designer
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Região Metropolitana de São Paulo, Brazil
Hotmart 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Região Metropolitana de São Paulo, Brazil
The role involves collaborating with Design, Product Management, and Development teams within the Community Management squad on rituals, understanding, creating, and organizing task backlogs. Key activities include conducting user and stakeholder interviews, market research, benchmarking, and leading the Discovery process with the Product Manager.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Everlaw 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
This role involves driving strategic vision for high-impact initiatives, defining the future of the AI-powered litigation platform by establishing industry-leading AI design patterns, guardrails for control, and transparency. The designer will also provide cross-functional leadership by partnering with senior Product and Engineering leaders to guide strategic decisions and evolve organizational design craft standards.
Associate UX Director / Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Captech Consulting 🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Responsibilities include leading the creation of design artifacts like personas, journey maps, wireframes, and interactive prototypes while managing the project team to mentor junior creatives and elevate deliverable quality. The role also requires presenting design concepts clearly to clients and internal teams, providing constructive feedback, and performing competitive assessments.
UX Designer, Community
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Twitch 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
The role involves leading design work at the project level, collaborating with senior cross-functional partners, and representing work to executive leadership, focusing on streamer creation and viewer engagement experiences.
UX Designer, Community
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Twitch 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role involves leading design work at the project level, collaborating with senior cross-functional partners, and representing work to executive leadership while guiding and mentoring junior designers. Designers are involved from project conception through execution, including hands-on research and close collaboration with engineers.
UX Designer, Community
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Twitch 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
This role involves leading design work at the project level, collaborating with senior cross-functional partners, and representing design work to executive leadership while guiding junior designers. Designers are involved from project conception through execution, including hands-on research and close collaboration with engineers.
UX Designer, Community
🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
Twitch 🇺🇸 Irvine, California, United States of America
This role involves leading design work at the project level, collaborating with senior cross-functional partners, and representing work to executive leadership while guiding and mentoring junior designers. Designers are involved from project conception through execution, including hands-on research and close collaboration with engineers.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Noma Security 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The Senior Product Designer will lead the entire design lifecycle from research through iteration, collaborating closely with Product and R&D teams to translate complex requirements into intuitive user experiences. They will own key product domains, simplify sophisticated AI and security workflows, and contribute to evolving the design system.
Electrical Design Engineering Co-op (Fall 2026)
🇺🇸 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Matrix Technologies 🇺🇸 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
The co-op acts in a support role to the project engineer or technical lead, performing small, checked tasks and working with experienced team members on design projects. Key duties include generating CAD drawings based on detailed designs provided by experienced staff and adhering to company design standards.
Global Design Engineering Lead
🇺🇸 Chandler, Arizona, United States of America
Bank Of America 🇺🇸 Chandler, Arizona, United States of America
This senior role involves building and leading a team to deliver technology products, developing a technology strategy, and ensuring solutions comply with global network standards. Key duties include producing holistic network designs, documenting low-level solutions, and leveraging automation to solve complex challenges across Network Services.
Electronics Product Design Engineering - Senior Professional
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Schneider Electric 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The role involves leading the definition, decomposition, and validation of hardware requirements, owning the requirements baseline in tools like DOORS or Jama Connect, and establishing bidirectional traceability across the V-model lifecycle. This includes translating requirements into architectural choices, guiding DFx alignment, owning verification planning, and managing change control processes.
Product Design Engineering Program Manager - Apple Vision Pro
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Apple 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
The Product Design Engineering Program Manager is responsible for driving the mechanical assembly through the entire program life-cycle, from architecture definition to mass production. This involves creating streamlined schedules, managing cross-functional progress, overseeing manufacturing/assembly, and providing status updates to leadership.
Product Design Engineering Program Manager - Apple Vision Pro
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Apple 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
This programmatic role involves delivering the mechanical assembly through the entire program life-cycle, from architecture definition to mass production, requiring frequent collaboration with various engineering and manufacturing teams. Responsibilities include driving the development process, maintaining streamlined schedules, managing upstream and CM progress through travel, and presenting status updates to leadership.
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.