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Principal Product Designer, Platform
🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
Create and maintain design systems to enable multiple design teams to deliver AI-powered experiences. Collaborate with product leaders to manage the product development process and ensure user experience quality.
G01 - Senior Product Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Fpt Asia Pacific Pte Ltd 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Lead the end-to-end product design process and ensure high-quality user experiences across digital products. Conduct workshops and use user research methods to gather insights and refine design solutions.
Product Designer (Contract to Hire)
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
Passes 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States
The Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process, focusing on creating intuitive and visually appealing user experiences. They will collaborate with various teams to ensure high-quality product delivery and maintain the design system for consistency.
Chief Product Designer – Workflow Platform
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Commonwealth Bank 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the design strategy for Workflow Platform products, shaping intuitive user-centred experiences. Collaborate with various teams to translate complex workflows into effective design systems.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Commonwealth Bank 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead end-to-end design from discovery through delivery for AER initiatives. Produce and maintain artefacts and align teams through workshops.
Product Designer (UX/UI) | Mid-Senior | Apps | Saily
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Nord Security 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Lead design activities for Saily, focusing on mobile apps and mentoring for the web platform. Collaborate with various team members to enhance user experience and create intuitive prototypes.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 Welshpool, Wales, United Kingdom
Sumitomo Drive Technologies Emeia 🇬🇧 Welshpool, Wales, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will develop products that shape the future direction of the company and manage multiple projects from research to commercially viable designs. They will also identify opportunities for innovation and present ideas to senior leadership.
Senior UX Designer (Community of Practice Lead)
🇨🇦 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Lloyds Banking Group 🇨🇦 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Lead the UX Design Community of Practice, setting the vision and pace for UX innovation at Lloyds Banking Group. Inspire and mentor a community of UX designers while collaborating with leadership to drive impact and growth.
UX Designer med kommercielt blik og fokus på digitale kundeoplevelser
🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Gjensidige 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
The UX Designer will develop and optimize user flows on gjensidige.dk with a focus on lead generation and conversion. They will also create solutions that increase traffic to webshops and support campaigns.
Product Designer (f/m/d)
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Contentful 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Product Designer will lead design and research initiatives to enhance the customer experience on the Contentful platform. This includes conducting user research, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and executing high-fidelity designs.
Product Designer (f/m/d)
🇮🇪 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Contentful 🇮🇪 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
The Product Designer will lead end-to-end design and research initiatives to enhance the customer experience on the Contentful platform. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create intuitive and scalable solutions for complex enterprise workflows.
Product Designer (f/m/d)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Contentful 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead and mentor a team of product managers while shaping the strategic vision for customer experience optimization. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute product roadmaps and ensure alignment across the customer journey.
Senior Product Designer - DACH
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Entain 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
The Senior Product Designer will drive the UI/UX vision for online casino, sports betting, and poker products, leading design projects from concept to implementation. They will also mentor a team of designers and advocate for player-centric design throughout the process.
UI/UX Designer Lead
🇮🇳 Hinjawadi, Maharashtra, India
Prometteur Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 🇮🇳 Hinjawadi, Maharashtra, India
The UI/UX Lead will lead and mentor a team of designers, ensuring high-quality design output while collaborating with product and engineering teams to implement innovative solutions. They will also create wireframes, prototypes, and conduct user research to enhance user experiences.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Maven Clinic 🇺🇸 United States
Maven is seeking a Senior Product Designer to join our Product Design team, leading design for a cross-functional team focused on core platform initiatives, AI-powered experiences, and maintaining system-wide consistency across our member-facing products.
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.