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Senior Graphic Designer

🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Responsible for designing POSM materials such as price lists, posters, and banners while ensuring alignment with brand guidelines. Collaborates with the VM team and Trade Marketing manager to execute display projects and plan product photography.

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Senior Graphic Designer | 12-month Maternity Leave Contract | Melbourne

🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The role involves executing small to large scale campaigns and managing Jardan's visual identity across packaging, in-store design, and digital touchpoints. Key duties include collaborating with stakeholders, managing external printers and freelancers, and maintaining all graphic design assets.

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Senior UX Designer - Design Systems

🇨🇿 Prague Castle, Zlatá ulička u Daliborky, 119 00 Prague, Czechia

You will own and maintain the Concur Mobile design system as the single source of truth for iOS and Android while designing complex features within the app. You will also collaborate with engineers to ensure technical feasibility and integrate AI-powered features into the product experience.

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Senior UX Designer

🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

The Senior UX Designer leads the design strategy and execution for complex healthcare software products, translating requirements into intuitive digital experiences. They collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to ensure design intent is realized in production while contributing to the organization's design system.

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Senior UX Designer

🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

The Senior UX Designer will define the design vision and standards for AeroVect's Autonomous Ground Support Equipment service, establishing the design function from the ground up. They will lead hands-on design for fleet operations products while shaping customer-facing interfaces for airline and airport stakeholders.

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Senior Design Manager

🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Manage engineers and designers to ensure the timely issuance of technical documents and drawings across the project lifecycle. Lead project communications and monitor the technical performance of staff to ensure design standards and budgets are met.

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Senior Graphic Designer, AI-Led Creative

🇵🇭 Philippines

Create conversion-focused ad creatives and email campaigns for eCommerce brands using AI-led workflows. Collaborate with media buyers and copywriters to ensure designs align with brand guidelines and drive revenue results.

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Senior Product Designer, Sportsbook

🇺🇸 United States of America

Lead the design of a new crypto-based sports betting platform, translating complex protocol concepts into intuitive user experiences. Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to drive the design vision and mentor team members to elevate overall product craft.

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Senior UX Designer, Consumer (m/f/d)

🇳🇱 Heerenveen, Frisia, Netherlands

The Senior UX Designer is responsible for optimizing user interactions across consumer touchpoints through research, wireframing, and prototyping. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a seamless user experience that aligns with both user needs and business goals.

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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States of America

Design and deliver end-to-end product experiences while prototyping new interaction paradigms enabled by emerging technologies like AI. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define scalable components and translate complex technical capabilities into intuitive user experiences.

$119,800 - $261,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Graphic Designer

🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America

The Senior Graphic Designer will own projects from concept to production, creating assets across digital, print, and social media channels. They will also serve as a brand steward, ensuring consistency while collaborating with cross-functional teams to support clinic openings and business needs.

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Senior Product Designer

🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Design end-to-end digital support and self-service experiences to help customers resolve issues efficiently using AI and automation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research and behavioral insights into intuitive, scalable design solutions.

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Senior Product Designer

🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Design end-to-end digital support experiences that enable customers to resolve issues efficiently through self-service and AI-powered tools. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, and Service Design to deliver intuitive, scalable solutions.

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Senior Product Designer

🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America

Own the end-to-end product design process from problem framing and user flows to production-ready UI for web surfaces. Partner with product managers and engineers to define product direction and leverage AI tools to accelerate ideation and iteration.

$150,000 - $200,000Full-timeSenior
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Sr. Digital Graphic Designer

🇺🇸 Gahanna, Ohio, United States of America

The Senior Digital Designer creates high-impact visual experiences and multi-channel digital assets for marketing campaigns to drive engagement and growth. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate campaign goals into creative outputs while mentoring peers and utilizing AI-accelerated workflows.

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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.