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Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Itrs 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end user experience for the ITRS observability platform, focusing on enterprise-grade solutions like analytics dashboards, real-time alerting, and AI-driven insights for large clients. Key tasks include leading research, designing scalable interfaces, creating unified visualizations, and developing interaction models for agentic AI.
Senior Product Designer - Motion and Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Datadog 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
This role involves designing and implementing motion across Datadog's product suite and contributing to the evolution of DRUIDS, the design system, by defining patterns and design tooling. The designer will also drive excellence across multiple products, impacting the user experience future with AI tools and prototyping.
Junior Graphic Designer
🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand
Burdaluxury 🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand
The Junior Graphic Designer will support the Senior Graphic Designer by executing high-quality visual work across editorial, digital, social, video, events, and commercial projects, focusing heavily on hands-on production and adherence to brand guidelines. This role also involves adapting and delivering design assets for regional projects across Southeast Asia.
Senior Graphic Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Inbeat Agency Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
The role involves designing and executing creative assets for performance-based paid advertising campaigns and developing and refining client brand visual identities. Responsibilities also include designing pitch decks and participating in internal design projects.
Graphic Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Teneo External Feed For Linkedin 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The designer will collaborate closely with the Senior Art Director and Marketing Team to produce high-quality creative for internal client engagements, including conceptualizing designs and laying out various collateral materials based on project briefs and established templates. Key tasks involve executing digital assets, ensuring accuracy through quality checks, and adapting to project changes while supporting the larger team workflow.
Senior Graphic Designer
Remote (🇵🇭 Philippines)
Outsourced Pro Global Remote (🇵🇭 Philippines)
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the creative vision across social, digital, and campaign assets, translating goals into compelling creative concepts while balancing hands-on execution with strategic input. Key duties include ideating, designing, and producing static, video, and motion content for various channels, and leveraging AI tools to accelerate production and build scalable workflows.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
Old Mutual Limited 🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
The Senior Graphic Designer is responsible for delivering exceptional visual communication across collateral, digital, presentation, and print touchpoints, blending strong conceptual thinking with high-quality execution to ensure brand excellence. Key duties involve translating briefs into design solutions, creating executive-level PowerPoint presentations, designing digital communications, and producing social media banners while upholding brand governance.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇦🇪 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Aecom 🇦🇪 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the conceptualization and execution of creative design projects across digital and print media, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions. Responsibilities include developing brand identity guidelines, creating visual content for various platforms, producing motion graphics, and mentoring junior designers.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Ap Max Inc Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead the end-to-end design of customer-facing platforms, transforming complex healthcare workflows into clear, user-centered digital solutions, while establishing design standards and visual systems for consistency across products. Responsibilities include executing product design through research, prototyping, and collaboration with engineering through QA, alongside building and maintaining a unified, scalable design system.
Senior UX Designer - NYC
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Blink Ux 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves designing digital products by creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI, alongside conducting various forms of user research. Responsibilities also include translating research insights into clear design recommendations and collaborating with product and engineering teams for implementation.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Msci 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead end-to-end product design for MSCI's Private Assets solutions, focusing on discovery through iteration and continuous improvement. This role involves driving UX consistency, shaping experience strategy, and designing intuitive user experiences for AI-powered features.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Fortune Brands 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
This role involves driving elegant user experiences across digital (mobile, web) and physical (devices) interfaces using a full range of design skills, owning the design process from concept through launch for B2B connected security products. Responsibilities include leveraging data to inform decisions, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, and mentoring junior designers.
U.S. Senior/Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Jump Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior/Staff Product Designer will be responsible for contributing directly to the product with designs across multiple feature areas, unifying the customer experience across the entire application. This role requires building and leading simultaneously while collaborating with other designers to maintain consistency.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Heidi 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The designer will own the overall design quality across the product, ensuring consistency and fixing inconsistencies before shipping. They will collaborate directly with engineers to design, prototype, and ship features while exploring the future look and feel of AI-powered clinical software.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
Dash0 Remote (🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process, including research, ideation, prototyping, and post-launch iteration, while partnering closely with Product Managers from discovery through delivery. They must design complex, data-rich interfaces to be usable for technically sophisticated users like developers and SREs.
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.