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Product Designer Lead
Remote (🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany)
Freenow Remote (🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany)
The Product Designer Lead will manage the design team, ensuring quality and excellence in craft while assuming full stewardship of product design for Freenow B2B products. This role involves close collaboration with Product Managers and Engineers to translate requirements into cohesive, data-validated designs that support user goals and business success.
Senior Product Designer - ShareGate Protect
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Workleap - En Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
The Senior Product Designer will own high-complexity problem spaces end-to-end, from concept through launch and iteration, while shaping product vision and influencing the roadmap using strong UX perspectives and customer insights. Responsibilities include designing intuitive, trustworthy AI-powered experiences and leading fast discovery loops using behavioral signals and in-product data to inform decisions.
UX Designer
🇲🇽 Cancún, Distrito 5, Mexico
Gravity Global 🇲🇽 Cancún, Distrito 5, Mexico
The role involves leading the discovery and requirements gathering process for new and updated websites, conducting evaluations, and translating business needs into functional designs and prototypes for mobile and desktop experiences. Responsibilities also include presenting recommendations to clients and mentoring junior UX designers.
Senior Product Designer, Consumer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Realtor.com Careers 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The designer will collaborate closely with cross-functional partners in Product and Engineering to create and execute a bold vision, responsible for understanding, scoping, and shipping polished experiences for 75 million monthly active users across web and native applications. This role involves leading the design process from conception to completion, elevating craft through thoughtful feedback, and actively contributing to the evolution of the design system.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina)
Xometry Remote (🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina)
The Staff Product Designer will lead design efforts for complex, cross-cutting initiatives spanning multiple teams or product areas, partnering closely with Product Managers and Engineering leads to shape problem definition and scope. They will translate ambiguous needs into scalable experience strategies, set a strong design point of view, and produce high-quality design work while guiding others.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Ccc Intelligent Solutions 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Senior/Lead Product Designer will be responsible for owning end-to-end experiences within a business vertical or product portfolio, collaborating with product, engineering, research, and data teams to create scalable, high-impact solutions. This includes designing and evolving complex workflows for diverse personas while leveraging AI-enabled tools to accelerate ideation and testing.
Senior Staff UX Designer - Design System
Remote (🇺🇸 Illinois, United States of America)
Workiva Inc. Remote (🇺🇸 Illinois, United States of America)
This role involves owning the strategy, execution, and measurement of company-wide Design Foundations initiatives, including leading the architecture and long-term evolution of the enterprise design system to ensure it is inclusive and extensible. The designer will partner deeply with Product Management and Engineering to prioritize roadmaps, define system governance, establish success metrics, and mentor other designers to raise organizational design maturity.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Hubspot Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Staff Product Designers will drive strategic design direction for large, complex, and ambiguous problem spaces, translating company strategy into coherent experience strategy and leading the design of AI-enabled features. They are also expected to elevate craft and systems thinking by delivering high-quality design and contributing to design systems.
Senior UX Researcher, Product Experimentation (Inventors)
🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
Woven By Toyota 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
The Senior UX Researcher will design and lead applied research for inventor-led Proofs of Concept (PoCs) and experiments, particularly in robotics and mobility domains. This involves planning and executing user studies using various methods and providing data-driven recommendations to inventors and stakeholders.
Senior UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
Fivetran 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States of America
The Senior UX Researcher will plan, manage, and execute user research programs across focused product areas, collaborating with design, product, and analytics to align projects with stakeholder and user needs. They will also guide teams on research methodology, synthesize learnings from past research and data, and lead ideation sessions to inform product development.
Graphic Designer - Chinese Speaker
🇲🇾 Malaysia
Exinity 🇲🇾 Malaysia
The Senior Designer will lead the design and execution of creative assets for the Asia market across digital, print, and motion, focusing on translating complex financial concepts into clear, engaging, and compliant visuals. Key duties include collaborating with regional teams, ensuring adherence to brand and regulatory standards, and adapting global concepts for local markets.
Staff Product Designer
🇨🇦 Canada
Planera 🇨🇦 Canada
The Staff Product Designer will own the end-to-end design of the mobile app experiences, leading complex problem spaces from discovery through launch and partnering closely with product and engineering to shape priorities. This role involves advocating for mobile users, driving excellence in interaction design, and contributing to product strategy while influencing the design system.
Architectural Product Designer
🇺🇸 Carbondale, PA 18407, United States of America
Etnyre International 🇺🇸 Carbondale, PA 18407, United States of America
The Architectural Product Designer/Estimator will be responsible for translating architectural intent into real-world products by interpreting complex drawings, performing takeoffs, and preparing accurate project quotations. This role involves collaborating with architects and customers to refine designs while leading projects across internal departments and managing external vendors and subcontractors.
Principal UX Designer: Generative AI & Computational Design
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Autodesk 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The role involves leading UX strategy and definition for next-generation, AI-powered product design workflows, requiring the invention and prototyping of new creation models blending computational design, simulation, and generative techniques with intuitive UX patterns. Responsibilities also include architecting end-to-end workflow solutions and collaborating across product, engineering, and research teams to deliver experiences that accelerate creativity while supporting manufacturability.
Senior Product Designer, Architecture and Systems
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Netflix 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America
This role involves architecting the strategy for platform systems and design scaling to ensure cross-squad resilience, while leading the UX strategy for foundational platform features like navigation and notification frameworks. The designer will also partner with engineering to maintain standardized components and evangelize paved-path frameworks for adoption velocity.
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.