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Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Blue J 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead the creation and maintenance of a scalable design system and craft intuitive user experiences for a generative AI tax solution. They will collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to translate user insights into high-fidelity designs and front-end code.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Treeswift Inc 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Own end-to-end product design for the web platform and hardware interfaces, focusing on making complex geospatial and LiDAR data actionable. Establish the company's design systems, product patterns, and overall design culture from the ground up.
Senior Product Designer Associate (External Agency Staff)
🇺🇸 Inglewood, California, United States of America
The National Football League 🇺🇸 Inglewood, California, United States of America
Design compelling, user-centered digital experiences and high-fidelity UI/UX specifications across the NFL portfolio. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and manage a cohesive design system and ensure experience cohesion across platforms.
Head of Design
Remote (🇳🇴 Norway)
Cybret Ai Remote (🇳🇴 Norway)
The Head of Design will define and execute the design vision for CYBRET AI across product, brand, and user experience. This includes owning end-to-end platform design, building scalable design systems, and evolving the company's visual identity.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Revel 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process from discovery to delivery, creating wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and prototypes. Collaborate with engineers and product managers to build scalable design systems and intuitive interfaces for hardware control software.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Gc Ai 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own the end-to-end design of an AI-native legal platform, focusing on multi-agent workflows and autonomous legal team interfaces. Collaborate with founders and engineers to build design systems and translate complex legal workflows into intuitive user experiences.
Marketing Web Designer
🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Gc Ai 🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Lead the visual identity and design across all marketing and sales channels, including the website, social media, and sales collateral. Own and evolve the company's design system while managing the website transition to Sanity.
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
🇺🇸 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.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Findigs, Inc. 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Lead Product Designer will own the design of product features from discovery to shipping, collaborating closely with product managers and engineers. They will also contribute to the design system and run user research to enhance the product experience.
Principal Product Designer
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Nice 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Own the design quality and coherence of the product ecosystem, establishing standards and governing the internal design system. Lead the experience design for complex enterprise AI workflows and ensure consistency across a distributed product organization.
UI/UX Designer - Business Applications
🇦🇹 Salzburg, Austria
Loop® 🇦🇹 Salzburg, Austria
Design and maintain scalable enterprise design systems and translate complex business logic into structured UX flows for ERP and CRM environments. Collaborate with technical teams to ensure data-heavy interfaces are technically feasible and meet accessibility standards.
Principal Product Designer
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Nice 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
You will own the overall design quality and coherence of NiCE-Cognigy’s product ecosystem, defining and driving the design vision and experience standards. You will lead the completion and governance of the internal design system while ensuring consistency across multiple product areas.
Lead Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Findigs 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of product features from discovery and research to shipping for renters and property managers. Co-own the Figma design system and integrate AI-assisted tools into the standard design workflow.
UI/UX Designer - Business Applications
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Loop® 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Design and maintain scalable enterprise design systems and translate complex business logic into structured UX flows for ERP and CRM environments. Collaborate with technical teams to ensure the feasibility of data-heavy interfaces and produce production-ready specifications.
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.