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Senior Digital Design Manager – Paid Media (All Genders)
🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
Zooplus 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
The Senior Digital Design Manager will oversee creative performance across paid media, ensuring high-quality execution from concept to delivery. This role involves driving improvements in creative processes and collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance campaign effectiveness.
Product Designer Senior
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
Experian 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
The role focuses on elevating the visual and functional quality of digital products by creating intuitive interfaces and conducting user research. The designer will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to develop prototypes and iterate solutions based on data and metrics.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Evolution 🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
The Senior UI/UX Designer is responsible for creating intuitive user flows, wireframes, and cohesive user interfaces aligned with the company's design language. They will develop scalable design systems and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to define and implement user experience strategies.
Senior Graphic Designer (AI + Motion Exp)
Remote (🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India)
Brandtech Plus Remote (🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India)
The role involves ideating, creating, and delivering integrated design assets across digital and social platforms, utilizing GenAI tools to enhance production processes. The designer will also optimize and adapt assets for multi-channel rollouts while ensuring adherence to brand guidelines.
(Senior) Product Designer (m/w/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Median Unternehmensgruppe B.v. & Co. Kg 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The role involves designing user-centered experiences for patient applications and developing intuitive user interfaces for digital health applications. Additionally, the designer will conduct user research and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Few&far 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will take ownership of end-to-end design across the B2B SaaS platform and consumer-facing mobile app and web platform. They will report directly to the Head of Design and help mature design operations while building new AI-driven product lines.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Westwood, Massachusetts, United States of America
Crocs, Inc. 🇺🇸 Westwood, Massachusetts, United States of America
Develop and execute visual concepts and creative assets for HEYDUDE's global brand across print and digital platforms. Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver high-quality layouts for retail graphics, packaging, and digital campaigns.
Senior Digital Design Manager – Paid Media (All Genders)
🇪🇸 National Library of Spain, Paseo de Recoletos, 20-22, 28071 Madrid, Spain
Zooplus Se 🇪🇸 National Library of Spain, Paseo de Recoletos, 20-22, 28071 Madrid, Spain
Lead the conceptual development and execution of high-performance creative assets for paid media channels like Meta and Google Ads. Manage creative automation via Smartly.io and optimize campaign performance through data-driven iterations and scalable frameworks.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇧🇩 Dhaka, Dhaka Metropolitan, Bangladesh
Ibox Lab 🇧🇩 Dhaka, Dhaka Metropolitan, Bangladesh
The Senior UI/UX Designer will map user journeys, deliver wireframes and prototypes, and evolve a design system. They will partner with PMs and engineers to ship features and communicate design concepts to stakeholders.
Head of Design Operations
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Oliver Grace 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Head of Design Operations will lead and support the team, ensuring effective workflow and project delivery while maintaining high standards. They will also act as a senior point of escalation for challenges and contribute to the studio's operational efficiency.
Senior Graphic Designer (AI + Motion Exp)
Remote (🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India)
Brandtech+ Remote (🇮🇳 Mumbai City District, India)
Ideate and deliver integrated digital and social design assets by blending traditional motion skills with GenAI-powered techniques. Use the Pencil platform and other AI tools to create, optimize, and evolve content for high-profile brand campaigns across multiple channels.
Senior Visual Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Premier 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
You will design creative assets for various platforms, including paid social and brand identities. Additionally, you will mentor junior designers and contribute to evolving design systems.
Senior Product Designer
🇮🇩 East Jakarta, Java, Indonesia
Amartha Financial 🇮🇩 East Jakarta, Java, Indonesia
The Senior Product Designer will define and document design requirements for high-impact projects and oversee the design process from concept to execution. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver intuitive and user-centered design solutions that drive business impact.
Senior Product Designer
🇫🇷 Ile-de-France, France
5 Degrés 🇫🇷 Ile-de-France, France
As a Senior Product Designer, you will work with major clients in the banking sector to shape their digital product vision and strategy. Your role will involve maximizing user experience value and ensuring that user needs are met through effective design solutions.
Senior Graphic Designer (AI + Motion Exp)
Remote (🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India)
Brandtech Plus Remote (🇮🇳 Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, India)
The role involves ideating, creating, and delivering integrated design assets across digital and social platforms, utilizing GenAI tools to enhance production processes. The designer will work collaboratively from brief to delivery, optimizing content for various channels and ensuring adherence to brand guidelines.
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.