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Marketing - Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America
Golden 1 Talent Acquisition Team 🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America
This role serves as a lead designer, responsible for the creation, development, coordination, and execution of high-impact print and digital advertisements and member-facing promotions, ensuring they are on-brand for the credit union. The Senior Graphic Designer also acts as the primary contact for designing professional PowerPoint presentations for executives and overseeing the production process for various marketing initiatives.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Fertifa 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Product Designer will own the design of the entire product ecosystem, focusing on the user interface and experience for both the patient mobile app and the clinical/admin web portal. This involves leading the design process from research through to production-ready assets and maintaining the design system.
Product Designer (Wearables)
🇺🇸 Burlingame, CA 94010, United States of America
Meta 🇺🇸 Burlingame, CA 94010, United States of America
The Product Designer will lead the design and optimization of wearable device integrations within the Meta AI app, focusing on device management, discovery, education, AI utility, health/fitness, and media features with high-craft design. This role involves turning broad, conceptual ideas into valuable, user-centric solutions for Meta's large user base and championing an "AI-first" design approach.
Senior Product Designer (Design Systems)
🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
Diligent Corporation 🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
The role involves leading the end-to-end design process from discovery through high-fidelity execution and developer handoff. A key focus is evolving and maintaining the design system in Figma, ensuring consistency and accessibility across the platform.
Lead Product Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
Tem Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)
The Lead Product Designer will own design outcomes end-to-end, acting as the 'taste maker' for Agentic experiences in Energy and building the AI native design platform with semantic tokens and reusable components. This role involves designing interaction systems for AI that scale and solving complex product constraints while setting clear design narratives and quality standards.
Lead UX Designer
🇺🇸 McKinney, Texas, United States of America
Srs Distribution Inc. 🇺🇸 McKinney, Texas, United States of America
The Lead UX Designer will define and drive the overall UX/UI design vision and strategy for B2B eCommerce across web and mobile platforms, while leading and mentoring other UX/UI designers. Key duties include championing user-centered design, leading research efforts, and developing artifacts like personas, journey maps, wireframes, and prototypes to inform design decisions.
Senior Product Designer UX - Customer Web
🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States of America
D.r. Horton 🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer UX will lead the end-to-end UX design for customer-facing web experiences, translating business goals and user insights into intuitive, conversion-focused designs. This involves creating user flows, journey maps, and high-fidelity prototypes while applying and evolving enterprise design systems and accessibility guidelines.
Senior Product Designer UX - Customer Web
🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States of America
D.r. Horton 🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer UX will lead the end-to-end UX design for customer-facing web experiences, encompassing research, wireframing, prototyping, and final design execution. This role involves translating business objectives and user insights into intuitive, conversion-focused digital experiences across web platforms.
Senior Product Designer UX - Customer Web
🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States of America
D.r. Horton 🇺🇸 Arlington, Texas, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer UX will lead the end-to-end UX design for customer-facing web experiences, encompassing research, wireframing, prototyping, and final design execution. This role involves translating business objectives and user insights into intuitive, conversion-focused digital experiences across web platforms.
Lead UX Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Global Relay 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Lead UX Designer will drive the design of AI-powered experiences across the Archiving platform by leading through expertise and execution, turning ambiguous problem spaces into clear, intuitive user experiences. Responsibilities include executing UX design from discovery through delivery, designing end-to-end solutions for complex enterprise workflows, and representing the user perspective in technical discussions.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Academia.edu 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Staff Product Designer will lead the design vision and strategy for their product area, acting as a strategic partner to drive user value and company growth, while also owning end-to-end design execution from concept to polished UI, including rapid iteration and prototyping.
Product Designer - RealTime AI
🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
Meta 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
The role involves leading the user experience for embodied, AI-powered agents by establishing design patterns for real-time AI across various form factors and executing a multimodal design strategy integrating voice, vision, and gesture. Responsibilities also include defining the behavioral user interface, ensuring AI interactions feel human-centric, and partnering cross-functionally to influence model behavior based on UX needs.
Senior UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Arctic Wolf 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The Senior UX Designer will advocate for end users by building user interfaces and experiences that solve problems and produce measurable UX outcomes, collaborating with Agile development teams throughout the design process from concept to production. Responsibilities include leading cross-functional teams to deliver roadmap features, conducting research, creating user journey documentation, and designing AI-enhanced cybersecurity features.
Senior Product Designer Consultant
Remote (🇮🇳 Bangalore North, India)
Signeasy Remote (🇮🇳 Bangalore North, India)
The Senior Product Designer will lead design for core product areas from concept to delivery, translating complex workflows into intuitive and delightful experiences. This role involves collaborating across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success teams to execute the roadmap and ensuring high-quality design execution.
Product Designer, Finance & Fiat
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Okx 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
This role involves guiding the team's attention to UX craft and leading cross-functional design alignment to craft dynamic user experiences for innovative crypto product features. Responsibilities include leveraging data and feedback to inform design, owning end-to-end design quality, and partnering with global teams to ship experiences aligned with the company vision.
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.