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Senior UX Product Designer
🇨🇦 Quinte West, Ontario, Canada
Litera 🇨🇦 Quinte West, Ontario, Canada
Own the end-to-end design of product areas to create intuitive, user-centered experiences for legal professionals. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Legal SMEs to translate complex problems into scalable design solutions across web, mobile, and Microsoft add-ins.
Senior UX Designer: Product & Systems
🇺🇸 United States of America
Extra Duty Solutions 🇺🇸 United States of America
The role involves owning the full design spectrum, including research, interaction, and visual design for officer and customer portals. The designer will build a token-based design system from the ground up and create end-to-end flows for complex operational workflows.
Senior Product Designer - Digital
🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
The Brixton Group 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end product design process from discovery to final delivery. They will create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and design specifications for customer-facing web applications.
Senior UX_UI Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Caterpillar Inc. 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The Senior UX/UI Designer will lead experience vision and coordinate work to support customer-centric design excellence across eCommerce product teams. Responsibilities include delivering high-quality design solutions, participating in design workshops, and monitoring post-launch evaluation metrics.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Fal 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own the end-to-end product design process for features across web and dedicated mobile experiences. Build and maintain the design system while partnering with engineering and product management to iterate based on user feedback.
UX Lead / Senior Product Designer, Model & Simulation
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Code Metal 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end UX design for a complex geospatial and simulation platform, translating technical requirements into intuitive workflows. Own the design system and collaborate closely with product managers and frontend engineers to ensure high-fidelity implementation.
Senior Product Designer, New Channels
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Headway Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Own the patient experience across Health Systems, EAP, and Payer Partnership channels to create seamless third-party handoffs. Design and scale referral-to-booking flows and run multi-sprint experiments to optimize conversion and retention metrics.
Senior Product Designer - UX & Design Systems
🇺🇸 Lindon, Utah County, UT 84042, United States of America
Trucordia 🇺🇸 Lindon, Utah County, UT 84042, United States of America
Lead the creation and ownership of a shared design system, including component libraries and design tokens, to ensure consistency across products. Design end-to-end AI-powered user experiences and collaborate closely with engineering to implement these systems in code.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Ibotta 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of new B2B features and products from conception through launch. Expand and maintain the design system while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to shape product strategy.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia)
Lifted, An Upwork Company™ Remote (🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia)
Lead end-to-end UI/UX design for web and digital platforms, creating high-fidelity interfaces for both Arabic and English audiences. Collaborate with stakeholders and developers to ensure design feasibility and maintain brand consistency across all touchpoints.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇰🇼 Kuwait City, Qibla, Kuwait)
Lifted, An Upwork Company™ Remote (🇰🇼 Kuwait City, Qibla, Kuwait)
Lead end-to-end UI/UX design for web and digital platforms, creating high-fidelity interfaces for both Arabic and English audiences. Collaborate with stakeholders and developers to ensure design feasibility and maintain brand consistency across all touchpoints.
Senior UI/UX Designer II
🇺🇸 Michigan, United States of America
Cgs Federal (contact Government Services) 🇺🇸 Michigan, United States of America
Lead full-scale UX design efforts and manage the planning, design, and implementation of multiple sites and applications. Collaborate with engineers and clients to create innovative solutions for federal customers.
Senior Product Designer, AI
🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Servicelink 🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lead design for AI-powered product experiences and analyze business workflows to identify opportunities for AI and automation. Facilitate alignment with stakeholders to turn ambiguous problems into clear product directions.
Senior Constructability Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States of America
Drive practical constructability and commissionability standards within data center design documentation. Act as a conduit between Design Engineering and construction teams to resolve complex technical issues throughout the project lifecycle.
Senior Product Designer (Fidelity Labs – Fidelity Private Shares)
🇺🇸 Merrimack, NH 03054, United States of America
Fidelity Investments 🇺🇸 Merrimack, NH 03054, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process for a SaaS fintech platform, transforming complex financial concepts into intuitive user experiences. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to align design solutions with business KPIs and technical feasibility.
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.