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Senior Product Designer
🇦🇪 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Careem 🇦🇪 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
This role oversees the development, implementation, and governance of Careem's design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across all digital platforms by establishing standards and evolving components. Responsibilities include partnering with product, engineering, and design teams, managing stakeholder relationships, and owning the full lifecycle of system components.
Staff Product Designer, New Products
Remote (🇨🇦 British Columbia, Canada)
Webflow Remote (🇨🇦 British Columbia, Canada)
The Staff Product Designer will define, design, and launch new products across complex, technical domains while proactively collaborating across teams to untangle AI-focused technical and user experience dependencies. This role involves presenting work to senior leadership, gathering customer feedback, and continually elevating the craft of design at Webflow.
Senior UX Designer - AI - PM
🇮🇳 India
Unitedhealth Group 🇮🇳 India
This role involves designing Generative AI chat and Ask AI experiences from an interaction and UX systems perspective, including owning the surrounding UI and defining agent behaviors and trust mechanisms. The designer will also create end-to-end AI user journeys, model contingencies like hallucination handling, and rapidly prototype solutions in Figma for validation.
Senior UX Designer - AI - IC
🇮🇳 India
Unitedhealth Group 🇮🇳 India
The Senior UX Designer will own the end-to-end UX for Generative AI chat and Ask AI experiences, focusing on interaction models, UI patterns, and agent behaviors while translating conversation strategies into effective UX patterns. Key tasks include designing trust mechanisms, modeling states and contingencies for AI interactions, and rapidly prototyping and validating designs through testing and iteration.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇱 The New North, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Sentinelone 🇮🇱 The New North, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The Senior Product Designer will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver innovative solutions across interconnected products. This involves communicating user experiences through various design deliverables and leading workshops to define project needs and mitigate risks.
Senior Product Designer Partner Journey
🇳🇱 Utrecht, Netherlands
Bol.com En 🇳🇱 Utrecht, Netherlands
The core responsibilities involve serving as a Senior Product Designer focused on the Partner Journey. Specific details about the duties are not provided in the description.
Senior Product Designer (Mobile)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Trade Republic 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The designer will be responsible for an end-to-end problem space, delivering design solutions from initial concept through shipping and beyond. This includes collaborating with product and engineering on priorities and partnering closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality user experiences.
Senior UI Designer – Intelligent Cockpit
🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Huawei Research Center Germany & Austria 🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
The role involves discovering and defining design opportunities within the HMI system by analyzing trends and competitor data, and proposing design directions through mood boards and design language tools. The designer will drive visual design philosophy and deliver high-fidelity UI concepts, components, and motion effects aligned with UX definitions.
Senior Graphic Designer, Experience Design
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Momentum 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves developing visual identity, logotypes, and environmental experiences across various media platforms, while actively participating in concept and design brainstorms. Responsibilities also include translating high-level concepts into brand-appropriate designs and maintaining creative quality while adhering to brand guidelines.
Sr. Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Applied Systems, Inc. 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will design and produce high-quality visual assets for various marketing materials across print, digital, and multimedia channels while ensuring consistent brand identity representation. This role also involves managing multiple projects, acting as a creative mentor, and collaborating with content, product, and marketing strategy teams.
Senior UI Designer - B2C Mobile (f/m/x)
🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
Exmox Gmbh 🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
The Senior UI Designer will own and design new features for the B2C mobile product from concept through final handoff, creating polished, engaging, and habit-forming user interfaces. Responsibilities also include creating visual assets, delivering production-ready specifications to engineering, maintaining the design system, and collaborating with research and data teams for iteration.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru Urban, Bengaluru - 560067, Karnataka, India
S&p Global 🇮🇳 Bengaluru Urban, Bengaluru - 560067, Karnataka, India
The role involves designing and enhancing high-impact presentation decks, primarily for executive and client-facing materials, ensuring adherence to S&P Global brand standards. This includes translating complex content and data into visually engaging layouts to support storytelling and decision-making across various strategic engagements.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America
Flynn Wright 🇺🇸 Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America
This role involves leading the discovery and concept development to define visual direction and campaign strategy in partnership with clients and leadership. Responsibilities include developing high-impact visual concepts across various platforms and mentoring junior designers to elevate team output.
Senior UX Designer – Intelligent Cockpit
🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Huawei Research Center Germany & Austria 🇩🇪 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
The role involves discovering and defining design opportunities within the HMI system by analyzing user insights, design trends, and competitor analysis. Responsibilities include proposing and delivering creative UXUI concepts from low-fidelity to high-fidelity stages, including interaction models, user flows, wireframes, and UI mock-ups.
Senior Product Designer
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Mollie 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The role involves defining a design strategy for the Business Accounts domain, transitioning from research to visual design, and taking ideas from concept to reality in collaboration with cross-functional teams. The designer will also be responsible for identifying assumptions, designing experiments for validation, and iterating based on data.
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.