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Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
Everbridge Remote (🇨🇦 Canada)
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design for complex enterprise SaaS workflows across web and mobile, shaping experiences from discovery through launch and iteration. This involves translating complex operational needs into intuitive, scalable solutions while partnering closely with Product and Engineering.
Senior UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Techtorch Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior UX Designer will lead the design of high-converting eCommerce platforms and mobile-first applications, translating brand identities into impactful visual designs and comprehensive Figma specifications for developers. This role also involves developing key messaging, designing personalized customer flows, and owning the end-to-end UX logic.
Senior Business Execution Consultant - Product Designer
🇺🇸 Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America
Wells Fargo & Company 🇺🇸 Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America
This role involves developing and executing employee and customer experience solutions for online applications, managing the entire UX/UI design lifecycle from concept through completion, including updates and revisions. The consultant will also review complex projects, potentially lead design specialists, and develop new research to drive leading-edge design solutions.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Premier Inc. 🇺🇸 United States of America
This role involves defining and evolving the end-to-end user experience across complex, multi-product ecosystems, setting strategic design vision, and leading hands-on design execution for high-quality, accessible UX/UI solutions. Responsibilities also include maintaining scalable design systems, collaborating cross-functionally, and mentoring other designers to elevate overall design quality.
UX Designer
🇳🇱 Hoofddorp, North Holland, Netherlands
Basic-fit 🇳🇱 Hoofddorp, North Holland, Netherlands
The mission is to create a frictionless user experience by identifying high-friction moments, diving deep into user behavior, and translating insights into measurable improvements. Responsibilities include leading the design process, initiating discovery activities, defining problems, and shipping pragmatic solutions using the design system.
Senior Lead Product Designer, Operations
Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
Monzo Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
The Senior Lead Product Designer will embed the long-term design vision for support experiences, leading large, end-to-end design initiatives across ambiguous problem spaces involving AI, internal tooling, and operational workflows. They will also coach other designers, raise the bar for design craft, and partner with leaders to define and execute product strategies.
Sr UX Researcher, Frame.io
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Adobe 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior UX Researcher will develop a comprehensive understanding of customers by crafting and leading mixed methods research, promoting the voice of the customer across the organization. They will collaborate with product teams to plan roadmaps and simplify complex findings into actionable insights that influence immediate actions and long-term product vision.
Senior UX Researcher
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
Microsoft 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Bahadurpura mandal, India
The role involves defining and leading strategic research roadmaps aligned with product vision, and conducting mixed-methods research to deliver actionable insights that shape both near-term design and long-term strategy. Responsibilities also include partnering cross-functionally with PM, Design, and Engineering to influence decisions and supporting rapid iteration through concept testing.
Lead UX Researcher
🌍 Remote
Rxbenefits, Inc. 🌍 Remote
This role involves leading and executing mixed-methods UX research programs across member, broker, client, and employee experiences, while mentoring junior researchers. The Lead synthesizes and presents actionable insights using experience metrics like KDA to inform product and experience decisions.
UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
U.s. Bank 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
The UX Researcher will lead and deliver high-quality UX research to inform design and business decisions, clearly demonstrating the value and return on design investment. This involves leading and crafting research to ensure excellence in facilitation, artifacts, presentation skills, and distilling actionable insights for partners.
Junior Graphic Designer
🇵🇭 Philippines
Panoptyc 🇵🇭 Philippines
The Junior Graphic Designer will create marketing materials, support product design needs, and produce high-quality graphics and short-form videos for various company initiatives. This role involves close collaboration with the Marketing Lead and CEO to ensure brand consistency and timely delivery of visual assets.
Graphic Designer_MARKETING_Fitness First Marketing UAE_HOSP - Landmark Group Tower - Dubai, UAE_Fitness First
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
Landmark Group 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
The core responsibilities involve executing graphic design tasks to support the marketing efforts for Fitness First, a leading health and fitness company under the Landmark Group.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 Ohio, United States of America
Cengage Group 🇺🇸 Ohio, United States of America
The role involves leading the end-to-end design process for eCommerce flows, from initial concepting through high-fidelity delivery, translating complex requirements and data insights into simple, engaging user experiences. Responsibilities also include using A/B and multivariate testing to validate hypotheses and collaborating with product and analytics teams to interpret results.
Senior Product Designer, Fintech
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Clio 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for the Invoicing team, focusing on reimagining financial workflows and unlocking insights to help law firms operate smarter. This involves partnering with Product and Engineering to define strategy, building customer intuition, and driving the design from vision crafting through polished execution.
UI/UX Designer (50248)
🇺🇸 Atlanta, Sussex County, Delaware, United States of America
Gap Solutions Inc 🇺🇸 Atlanta, Sussex County, Delaware, United States of America
The designer will lead the end-to-end UI/UX design process, creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups for user-centric digital experiences. Responsibilities include developing scalable design systems in Figma and collaborating cross-functionally to translate complex requirements into intuitive and accessible interfaces.
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.