Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Navex 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
The role involves conducting comprehensive mixed-method user research and designing intuitive user interfaces specifically for SaaS enterprise software solutions. Responsibilities also include collaborating with cross-functional teams and actively contributing to the established design system.
SENIOR UI/UX DESIGNER
Remote (🇺🇸 Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America)
Kentech Consulting Inc Remote (🇺🇸 Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America)
The Senior UI/UX Product Designer will lead the end-to-end user experience design for the PowerBAK platform, owning visual and interaction design across multiple user types including candidates, investigators, and public sector hiring teams. Key tasks involve designing three core interfaces, creating a scalable design system, and designing complex workflows like multi-step applications and data visualization components.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Athena 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Senior Product Designer will design high-impact experiences across customer, broker, and internal teams, focusing on complex, regulated environments, particularly scaling loan origination. This hands-on role involves running discovery, prototyping, validating ideas, and partnering with engineering to ensure design intent is realized across the entire system.
Senior UX Designer
🇳🇿 Auckland, New Zealand
Westpac 🇳🇿 Auckland, New Zealand
The Senior UX Designer will be responsible for creating visually stunning designs and translating them into reusable UI patterns across digital products, using data, research, and empathy to understand customer problems. This role involves taking concepts from initial sketches through to scalable, delightful interactions ready for production while collaborating closely with researchers, designers, content specialists, and engineers.
Sr Staff Product Designer, Firefly Enterprise
🇮🇳 Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, India
Adobe 🇮🇳 Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, India
The Senior Staff Designer will lead the end-to-end development for Firefly Enterprise Engine Studio, focusing on video adaptation workflows for social and outcome-focused use cases, alongside developing scalable plug-in solutions. This role involves partnering with engineering, product, and research to refine intelligent tools and mentoring junior designers.
Sr. UI/UX Designer & Developer
🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City, India
Decisivedge 🇮🇳 Pune, Pune City, India
The Senior UI/UX Designer & Developer will be responsible for both designing and developing user interfaces and experiences, working closely with product, design, and development teams to create seamless digital solutions. Key tasks include conducting user research, creating wireframes and prototypes, leading design guideline maintenance, and implementing designs using front-end technologies.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇨🇭 Geneva, Switzerland
Alohi Sa 🇨🇭 Geneva, Switzerland
The Senior UI/UX Designer will own end-to-end design for key product experiences across web and mobile, defining user journeys, interaction models, and shipping polished UI. They will also be responsible for designing high-performing landing pages to drive conversion and collaborating with Growth teams on campaigns.
Product Designer
🇿🇦 Midrand, 1682, South Africa
Accenture 🇿🇦 Midrand, 1682, South Africa
The Product Designer will lead design workstreams across UX, UI, and interaction design, overseeing multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality outputs and drive large-scale design programmes integrating strategy and technology. Key activities involve translating insights into deliverables, defining scalable design practices, and championing innovation, while also mentoring junior staff and engaging with senior stakeholders.
Senior UX Designer
Remote (🇸🇮 Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Aleph Remote (🇸🇮 Ljubljana, Slovenia)
The Senior UX Designer will own the end-to-end user journey for web-based applications, delivering high-fidelity, production-ready designs that maintain a premium aesthetic across all states and interactions. This role also involves leading the creation and maintenance of a robust Design System in Figma and collaborating closely with engineers during implementation.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
Myedspace Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
The Senior Product Designer will redefine digital learning experiences by crafting fun, engaging, and highly intuitive designs for the innovative platform, shaping captivating user journeys that blend B2C design with AI-driven interactivity. This role involves creating delightful experiences specifically tailored to younger users, setting new standards for enjoyment and engagement within edtech.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Kodify Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
The role involves collaborating with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions that enhance product direction, visuals, and user experience across the full customer lifecycle. Responsibilities include creating wireframes, prototypes, and storyboards, developing modern responsive designs, and managing all visual design stages from concept to engineering hand-off.
Senior Product Designer | Power Generation Mission
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Gecko Robotics 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves working directly with power plant operators and engineers to understand real workflows, constraints, and failure modes in technically complex domains. Responsibilities include designing and iterating on workflows and interfaces, driving decisions using various artifacts, and pushing the design role into product strategy and engineering implementation.
Sr. Product Designer
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
Jerry.ai 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will partner with Product Managers and engineers to define user problems, simplify data-heavy experiences, and design solutions that drive measurable outcomes across core products. This involves creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and final UI, while leading UX explorations for complex workflows.
Senior UX Designer
🇳🇱 Utrecht, Netherlands
Keylane 🇳🇱 Utrecht, Netherlands
The Senior UX Designer will be responsible for shaping high-quality user experiences across Keylane’s products, translating complex workflows into usable solutions from discovery through delivery. This includes collaborating closely with Product and Engineering, contributing to the design system, and mentoring peers.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇮🇱 The New North, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel)
Navan Remote (🇮🇱 The New North, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for key workstreams within the Enterprise platform, including concept development, user flows, final UI polish, and creating developer-ready documentation. This role requires simplifying complex business requirements and dense data into clear, intuitive B2B interfaces while contributing to and evolving the design system.
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.