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Systems Design Engineering Director
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Emerson 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Systems Design Engineering Director will set the technical vision and define system requirements for market segments. They will lead a team of senior architects and coordinate with various business and product managers.
Senior UI Designer
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
At&t 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
The Senior UI Designer will collaborate across teams to align visual design with overarching strategies and work cross-functionally to deliver on-brand creative work. They will also advocate for growth in design by contributing to the evolution of AT&T design systems and best practices.
Senior Brand & Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Nevada System Of Higher Education 🇺🇸 Reno, Nevada, United States of America
The Senior Brand & Graphic Designer will serve as the primary visual steward for the University’s visual identity systems and will influence the institution's public image. This role involves developing scalable design systems and templates while maintaining brand integrity across various platforms.
Junior UI Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Benda Infotech 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
As a Junior UI Designer, you will assist in designing intuitive user interfaces for web and mobile applications and collaborate with senior designers to create wireframes and prototypes. You will also conduct user research and usability testing to enhance the user experience.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 London, TW3 1DA, United Kingdom
None 🇬🇧 London, TW3 1DA, United Kingdom
The Senior UX Designer will lead the design process and manage the delivery of multiple design projects, ensuring alignment with product strategy, commercial goals, and brand objectives. This role focuses on the creative execution of design work across multiple projects, involving leading delivery from discovery to optimization and mentoring junior designers.
Senior Product Designer - Digital CX
🇬🇧 London, TW3 1DA, United Kingdom
None 🇬🇧 London, TW3 1DA, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will deliver world-class, intuitive, evidence-based experiences across web and native platforms, championing the customer voice using research insights and data aligned with business strategy. They will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure solutions meet user needs, business goals, and technical requirements while supporting delivery with a focus on accessibility and design systems.
Senior Product Designer
🇨🇦 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Vendasta 🇨🇦 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
The Senior Product Designer leads the end-to-end design process, collaborating with product managers and engineers to define product strategies. Responsibilities include driving product discovery through data and research, simplifying interfaces, and validating concepts with user testing.
Associate Director, Senior UX Designer (FTC)
🇬🇧 London, City of London, United Kingdom
Janus Henderson Investors 🇬🇧 London, City of London, United Kingdom
The Senior UX Designer will lead UX strategy and design approaches for complex digital initiatives, creating intuitive, accessible, and effective digital experiences across the global ecosystem. This role involves championing accessibility, driving contributions to the Design System, and collaborating closely with various cross-functional partners.
Sr. Product Designer
🇺🇸 City of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Generac Power Systems 🇺🇸 City of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design of digital experiences connecting customers to Generac products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define problems and deliver high-quality designs. Major duties include designing mobile experiences integrated with connected systems, conducting user research, developing prototypes in Figma, and contributing to the design system's evolution.
Senior Product Designer - Games Social
🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
Netflix 🇵🇦 Panama City, Distrito de Panamá, Panama
Identify and drive large-scale social initiatives and product features from concept through launch. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create shared gaming experiences that resonate across platforms.
Senior Digital Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Royal Bank Of Canada 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Senior Digital Interaction Designer provides strategic guidance on interaction design, advocating for client needs and influencing product strategy through deep understanding of design theory and best practices. This role involves creating medium-fidelity design artifacts like sketches, wireframes, and prototypes to explore complex system designs with minimal supervision.
Senior Web developer and UX designer
🇧🇪 Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
Sword Technologies N.v./s.a. 🇧🇪 Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
The main task is to design, publish, and maintain webpages according to European Commission standards. This includes creating new components, testing user interfaces, and managing online collaborative tools.
Sr Mobile UX Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Bayer Remote (🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
As a Senior UX Designer, you will design user experiences for the mobile FieldView platform while collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will conduct research, create wireframes and prototypes, and contribute to design systems.
Senior UX Designer
🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Godaddy 🇮🇳 Gurgaon, Haryana, India
The role involves owning end-to-end design execution across mobile web, mobile, and web applications to ensure a seamless user experience, while solving complex design challenges by balancing business needs with customer insights. Responsibilities also include crafting scalable design systems, using data to inform decisions, building prototypes, leading design discussions, and mentoring junior designers.
Senior Product Designer - Platform (Identity)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Coinbase Careers Page 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will work in a small team to iteratively improve user experience, taking new features from ideation through production, including design, prototyping, and user testing. They will also partner with the Design Systems team to define scalable design patterns and execute on the product roadmap.
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.