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Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Trustpilot 🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will drive strategic discovery and research to understand consumer needs, leading the design strategy and execution for complex, high-impact features from problem framing to final delivery. They will also prototype high-quality user journeys and collaborate cross-functionally to test hypotheses across web and iOS platforms.
Senior Product Designer
🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
Trustpilot 🇩🇰 1357 København K, Denmark
The Senior Product Designer will drive strategic discovery and research to understand consumer needs, leading the design strategy and execution for complex, high-impact features from problem framing to final delivery. They will also prototype high-quality user journeys and collaborate cross-functionally to test hypotheses across web and iOS platforms.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Minute Media 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end product design for complex initiatives, translating business goals and user insights into elegant UX/UI solutions, while driving early exploration through research, ideation, and prototyping. Collaborate across various teams to define problems and champion design quality by presenting clearly and using data to inform decisions.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Pepsico 🇺🇸 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
The main function involves working on the Design System by developing, creating, and modifying design components based on end-user needs. This includes participating in the entire design process from initial research through testing and validation.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Pepsico 🇺🇸 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
The main function involves working on the Design System, developing, creating, and modifying design components based on end-user needs throughout the entire design process from research to validation. Responsibilities include planning and conducting research, synthesizing insights, and creating Design System deliverables like components, prototypes, documentation, and presentations.
Senior Product Designer, Identity
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Bolt Technology 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
The role involves identifying user and business opportunities within identity and verification flows, turning them into simple, consistent, and scalable product experiences. Responsibilities include prototyping, presenting data-driven designs to stakeholders, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to bring concepts to life.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Blacklane Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end product design, owning key product areas from discovery through delivery, including flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI that aligns with the luxury brand identity. This role involves setting a premium quality bar for interfaces and driving alignment and decision-making by partnering closely with Product and Engineering teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Blacklane 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end product design, owning key product areas from discovery through delivery, including journeys, flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI that aligns with the luxury brand identity. This role involves setting a premium quality bar for interfaces, driving alignment with Product and Engineering, and demonstrating business impact through measurable outcomes.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Global Relay 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
This role involves championing users through all phases of the product management cycle, from problem framing to solution delivery, by conducting research and collaborating with stakeholders, designers, and developers. Responsibilities include advocating for customers, applying research techniques, prototyping solutions, communicating designs to developers in an agile environment, and guiding others in design thinking.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Plum Fintech 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will be responsible for solving user problems end-to-end, from research through to implementing polished flows and interactions with engineers. They will also collaborate with other designers to establish design processes, tooling, and core principles.
Senior UX Designer - Monopoly GO!
🇪🇸 Seville, Andalusia, Spain
Scopely 🇪🇸 Seville, Andalusia, Spain
The Senior UX Designer will be responsible for owning and delivering complete UX for new features and player experiences, transforming goals into fully developed designs that meet product experience targets. This includes building deep game knowledge to ground design decisions in real player perspectives and visualizing ideas through various design deliverables.
Senior UX Designer Senior UX Designer
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Gft Technologies Se 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
The role involves independent design work on complex solutions, focusing on usability, accessibility, and the look and feel of the product, including defining information architecture. Responsibilities also include translating business requirements into necessary UX artifacts for mobile, web, and desktop products.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Spoton: Product 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will collaborate with designers, researchers, product managers, and engineers to execute design solutions across platforms, creating user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI for web and mobile interfaces. They will also apply systems thinking for consistency, leverage data insights, proactively identify opportunities, and mentor junior team members.
Senior Product Designer - UI/UX
🇮🇪 Swords, County Dublin, Ireland
Esw 🇮🇪 Swords, County Dublin, Ireland
Senior Product Designers will lead the design direction and implementation across web and mobile for global clients, creating polished UI, interaction designs, and prototypes. They will shape product strategy, design for AI features, present work to stakeholders, and mentor junior designers to strengthen the design culture.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇲🇹 Malta
Rhino Entertainment Group 🇲🇹 Malta
The Senior UI/UX Designer will own features from discovery through delivery, translating briefs and requirements into considered design solutions, including user journeys, edge cases, and micro-interactions. They will also be responsible for creating high-fidelity prototypes, documenting work, and partnering closely with Product Owners and Engineers for timely, high-quality delivery.
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.