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Product Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Ilovepdf 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Create polished, high-quality UI designs and interactive prototypes for web, desktop, and mobile products, using user insights and feedback to refine experiences. Collaborate with design, business, and engineering teams to validate solutions, apply and evolve the Design System, and ensure designs are accessible, responsive, and feasible to implement.
Product Designer UX/UI
Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Jungle Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Research user behavior and translate business needs into clear information architectures, logical user flows, and effective digital product strategies. Design polished, functional experiences using design systems, present work to clients, coordinate feedback, and ensure proposed solutions deliver business value.
Lead UX Designer
🇳🇱 Netherlands
Actai 🇳🇱 Netherlands
Design polished, intuitive user interfaces and build and maintain UI components and design systems. Refine layouts, typography, spacing, and visual consistency while collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver pixel-perfect experiences and continuously improve the product interface.
Senior UX/UI & Graphic Designer (Media Graphics)
Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Apolo - P2p Crypto Learning Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Shape and improve APOLO’s user experience and product interfaces by designing user journeys, flows, prototypes, responsive layouts, and scalable design systems. Define and maintain the company’s visual identity across marketing, social media, investor materials, and platform communications while collaborating with product, engineering, marketing, and leadership teams.
Product Designer, UIUX - Banking [Up to 35K/mth]
🇭🇰 R.C. Lee Hall, 6A Sassoon Road, Hong Kong
Chandler Macleod 🇭🇰 R.C. Lee Hall, 6A Sassoon Road, Hong Kong
Create clear, on-brand UI/UX designs for complex banking services, including screen designs, design guidelines, specifications, and reusable design systems. Manage design decisions and implementation, collaborate with product, business, IT, and research teams, and use user research and industry trends to improve the product experience.
Lead UX Designer
🇨🇭 Switzerland
Actai 🇨🇭 Switzerland
Design polished, intuitive user interfaces and build and maintain UI components and design systems. Refine layouts, typography, spacing, and visual consistency while collaborating with product designers and engineers to deliver pixel-perfect experiences and continuously improve the product interface.
UI/UX Designer
🇮🇳 Chennai, India
Adecco 🇮🇳 Chennai, India
Design intuitive, visually appealing digital interfaces in Figma in collaboration with product managers, and work with developers to ensure accurate implementation. Maintain design systems and pattern libraries, and create branded digital assets, web graphics, and other visual content for marketing campaigns.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Programa 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead end-to-end design of product features, from discovery and wireframes through polished UI, working closely with Product and Engineering on prioritization, delivery, and iteration. Use Claude Code and AI workflows to ship smaller product improvements, maintain design system consistency, and contribute to product decisions and design processes.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Equiem 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Design and deliver trusted data intelligence experiences, including dashboards, reporting, and decision-support tools, through customer research, prototyping, testing, and iteration. Lead design practice across four product squads by evolving the design system, setting quality standards, and creating self-serve guidance and AI workflows.
Lead UX Designer
🇩🇪 Germany
Actai 🇩🇪 Germany
Design polished, intuitive user interfaces and build and maintain UI components and design systems. Refine visual details and collaborate with product designers and engineers to deliver pixel-perfect experiences and continuously improve the product interface.
Senior Product Designer aa
🇩🇪 Germany
Jobgether 🇩🇪 Germany
Own product design from problem definition and user-needs analysis through implementation review and quality assessment, creating responsive interfaces and complex financial workflows. Build and maintain scalable design systems, collaborate with product and engineering partners, and use AI tools to streamline routine design work.
Senior Product Designer aa
🇩🇪 Germany
Jobgether 🇩🇪 Germany
You will design complex digital products and workflows while maintaining scalable design systems for a FinTech environment. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate user needs into high-quality, responsive interface solutions.
[쿠팡페이] Staff Product Designer
South Korea, Seoul
Coupang South Korea, Seoul
The Staff Product Designer will lead the end-to-end product design strategy, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product goals and roadmaps. They are responsible for driving design excellence, maintaining design systems, and utilizing data-driven insights to optimize user experiences.
Design Systems Lead (Remote, Ibague)
Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇨🇴 Colombia)
Build precise, reusable design systems for multiple client brands, including token architecture, variables, modes, and core component libraries. Document systems so developers and automated build pipelines can implement them reliably.
Design Systems Engineer (Remote, Tijuana)
Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇲🇽 Mexico)
Build Figma token architectures using variables, modes, and semantic naming, and create core component libraries that work across entire websites. Document systems so developers and automated pipelines can implement them reliably across multiple client brands.
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.