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Senior UX Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
Schema App Remote (🇨🇦 Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
The Senior UX Designer will lead discovery and research, owning the research function through interviews, surveys, and usability testing to validate design decisions before shipping solutions. They will also be responsible for UX strategy, mapping complex user journeys and overhauling the legacy SaaS interface into a cohesive platform aligned with business goals.
Product Designer - Senior UX/UI Designer
🇪🇸 Los Barrios, Andalusia, Spain
Moffatt & Nichol 🇪🇸 Los Barrios, Andalusia, Spain
The Senior Product Designer is responsible for shaping and owning product experiences across the platform, translating complex operational workflows and data-heavy use cases into clear, usable, and scalable solutions. Key duties involve leading end-to-end UX/UI for core modules, driving product discovery, and ensuring AI-supported features communicate confidence and usability.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Planet 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The core mission of this role is to design, prototype, and launch groundbreaking AI-powered features and products, focusing on creating tools that lower the barrier to entry for geospatial analysis. This involves leading the end-to-end design process for Geospatial AI assistant features, specifically designing intuitive Large Language Model (LLM) interfaces.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
Fabric Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design for the kids investment account product, owning the end-to-end user experience from research and prototyping through final design hand-off. This involves collaborating with Product Management and Engineering to enhance product engagement and retention while advocating for the customer through testing and interviews.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
Kiavi Remote (🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for major product workstreams, ensuring solutions drive core business metrics like conversion and operational efficiency. This role involves proactively identifying friction points and architecting cohesive experiences that leverage AI and machine learning.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America)
Kiavi Remote (🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will lead complex, high-stakes product initiatives from initial ambiguity through to polished execution, architecting cohesive experiences that leverage AI and machine learning to reduce decision latency. Key duties include end-to-end ownership of major workstreams, partnering with Product and Engineering to drive business metrics, and actively contributing to and refining the Kiavi Design System.
Lead Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Heliosx 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Lead Product Designer will be responsible for leading the end-to-end design of internal tools used across operations, including conducting research with prescribers, pharmacists, and support teams to simplify complex workflows. This role involves rapidly prototyping solutions and working closely with product managers and engineers to ensure efficient delivery of improvements.
Staff Product Designer
🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Benevity 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The Staff Product Designer will lead the evolution of the donation experience by applying optimization strategies and behavioral science to reduce friction and increase global giving impact. This involves using deep user insights to define problems, evaluate trade-offs, measure impact, and steward the Skyline design system.
Staff Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Benevity 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Staff Product Designer will lead the evolution of the donation experience by applying optimization strategies and behavioral science to reduce friction and increase global giving impact. This involves using deep insights to define problems, evaluate trade-offs, measure impact, and lead complex, cross-functional design explorations.
Staff Product Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Benevity 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Staff Product Designer will lead the evolution of the donation experience by applying optimization strategies and behavioral science to reduce friction and increase global giving impact. This involves using deep insights to define problems, evaluate trade-offs, measure impact, and steward the Skyline design system.
Senior/Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
New Era Technology 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will set and elevate design standards for enterprise digital products, contributing hands-on design leadership across web experiences managed by the Enterprise Web Initiative (EWI). This role involves translating product strategy and user needs into intuitive, accessible, and high-fidelity design solutions while ensuring consistency with the enterprise design system.
UI/UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America)
Lightfeather Io Llc Remote (🇺🇸 Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America)
The role involves leading discovery efforts to identify user needs, pain points, and business objectives, and planning/facilitating workshops to drive alignment among stakeholders. Responsibilities also include translating ambiguous problems into clear statements, communicating design intent, and synthesizing findings into actionable artifacts like journey maps and wireframes.
Senior Product Designer (UX/UI)
🇦🇺 Lithgow NSW 2790, Australia
Mycareer - Nsw Government 🇦🇺 Lithgow NSW 2790, Australia
The Senior Product Designer will lead the end-to-end design process for digital products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive, customer-focused solutions aligned with business objectives. This role also involves providing expert advice on design best practices and guiding development teams on design system compliance.
UX Designer II
🇮🇳 Chennai, India
Td Synnex 🇮🇳 Chennai, India
The UX Designer is responsible for designing customer experiences by combining design principles with UX best practices and business knowledge, often involving collaborative whiteboarding and wireframing. Key duties include creating mockups, leading research activities to influence redesigns, building prototypes, and collaborating with developers to implement designs.
Product Designer
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Marsh Mclennan 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
The role involves leading the design for complex Enterprise SaaS workflows, particularly those enhanced by Artificial Intelligence features like predictive hiring dashboards. Responsibilities span the entire design lifecycle, from deep UX research and information architecture to high-fidelity UI, alongside contributing to and scaling the centralized Design System.
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.