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Senior UX Designer, AncestryDNA
🇺🇸 United States
Ancestry 🇺🇸 United States
The Senior UX Designer will partner with various teams to deliver impactful design solutions and translate research insights into actionable design iterations. They will create user flows, prototypes, and visual systems while fostering a culture of curiosity and inclusion.
Sr. Product Designer
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States
Illumio 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States
As a Senior Product Designer, you will craft user experiences from concept to execution, collaborating with product managers and engineers. You will also integrate user feedback and advocate for design-centered changes.
Ux Designer
🇺🇸 Stamford, Connecticut, United States
Teksystems 🇺🇸 Stamford, Connecticut, United States
The UX Designer will collaborate with senior designers to execute design tasks and contribute to the redesign of the website. This role focuses on creating user experiences that drive conversions and optimize the digital sales funnel.
Senior Product Designer - Restaurant Platform
Opentable
Design core experiences for restaurants and partners connecting to OpenTable, including onboarding and reporting. Collaborate with product designers, managers, and engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Owlet Baby Care 🇺🇸 United States
The Senior Product Designer will own design problems from early concept through launch, creating and iterating on flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs. They will collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to deliver parent-centered experiences across connected devices.
Senior Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Commonwealth Bank 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Drive end-to-end product design from discovery to solution delivery, ensuring high-quality and scalable design patterns. Manage stakeholder relationships and facilitate workshops to align teams and create shared understanding.
Senior UX Designer, Design
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Amazon 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
The Senior UX Designer will facilitate processes in ambiguous product strategies and requirements, guiding stakeholders in design exercises to shape user stories. They will also generate design documents that communicate recommendations and trade-offs to leaders across the organization.
Senior Product Designer
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Buildops Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
BuildOps is looking for a talented senior product designer to help build and improve critical parts of the product for customers. The ideal candidate is someone comfortable working on complex and ambiguous projects in a fast-paced environment.
Senior UX Designer
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Amazon 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
The Senior UX Designer will facilitate and define product requirements while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver customer-centric solutions. They will also drive design exercises and help shape product roadmaps to enhance the customer experience.
Senior / UX Designer, Managed Agencies
🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Govtech Singapore 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
GovTech is seeking a senior UX Designer to lead the design work for products or projects, maintaining a strategic outlook and ensuring deliverables are aligned with organizational goals.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
Microsoft 🇺🇸 Redmond, Washington, United States
Design intuitive workflows for users to configure AI systems and visualize complex data relationships. Collaborate with engineers and researchers to ensure user-centered designs and validate their effectiveness through user research.
Senior Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Wave Mobile Money 🌍 Remote
Wave is looking for an experienced mobile designer to help make great iOS and Android apps, making financial services more accessible and inclusive for millions of people.
Senior UX Designer H/F
🇫🇷 Paris, Île-de-France, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Paris, Île-de-France, France
NEXTON is looking for a Senior UX Designer to join their team in Paris. The designer will work on conceiving and optimizing user experiences for a client in the insurance sector.
Senior UX Designer H/F
🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Nexton 🇫🇷 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
As a Senior UX Designer, you will lead user research to identify pain points and opportunities for improvement, translating insights into intuitive user journeys. You will collaborate closely with Product Owners and developers to ensure the quality and feasibility of solutions across all platforms.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
Nitro 🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
Lead end-to-end product design across complex journeys and systems, ensuring high-quality and accessible experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive clarity and quality throughout the product lifecycle.
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.