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Senior Graphic Designer
🇪🇬 Egypt
Hire Africa 🇪🇬 Egypt
The Senior Graphic Designer creates high-quality visual assets across digital, print, and branding channels to support strategic business objectives. They lead projects from concept to execution while mentoring junior designers and maintaining brand consistency.
Senior UX Designer - 16 Month Contract
🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Noibu 🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Design high-quality features and improvements for a data-dense product while evolving the internal design system. Collaborate with PMs, engineers, and customers to shape and mature autonomous AI agent interfaces.
Senior UX Designer – Unpublished R&D Product
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Riot Games 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
You will own the UX design for significant player-facing features from discovery through implementation while collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will also lead the exploration of UX opportunities and establish design patterns to ensure a cohesive player experience.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States
Conceptualize and execute high-quality visual assets and marketing collateral that align with the medical center's brand strategy. Lead organization-wide visual design initiatives and collaborate with photographers to manage photo shoots from inception to completion.
Senior Product Designer
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Airhelp 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
You will own the end-to-end B2B product design, including partner-facing experiences, marketing collateral, and go-to-market strategy. You will also conduct user research and usability testing to ensure designs are grounded in real partner pain points and business needs.
Senior Product Designer - Strategic Discovery (x,f,m)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Dkb Code Factory Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
You will lead early-stage product discovery by framing unclear problems and turning rough ideas into tangible product directions. You will facilitate alignment across cross-functional teams including Product, Research, and Engineering to determine what should be built.
Senior Product Designer (Contract or FTE)
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Momentum Io 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
You will shape outcomes at the intersection of business analysis, service design, and digital product experience by guiding teams and clients through complex projects. Responsibilities include conducting research, crafting UX/UI systems, and embedding AI-driven thinking into multi-channel product ecosystems.
Senior Web Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Madeo 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Lead the shaping of user experiences and visual design for high-caliber websites for mission-driven organizations. Responsibilities include producing UI kits, establishing design systems, and collaborating with strategists and developers from discovery through execution.
Senior UI/UX Designer, Web & Marketing
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Ideals 🇺🇦 Ukraine
You will own and scale the marketing design system while directing AI-assisted design orchestration for landing pages and digital assets. The role involves creating UX prototypes, maintaining prompt libraries, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure brand consistency.
Senior Product Designer (Contract)
Own the UX and UI execution for web and app initiatives, including checkout and subscription flows. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate growth opportunities into polished, development-ready experiences.
Head of Design
🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Housemarque 🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Define and drive the long-term strategy for the Design discipline while leading, coaching, and developing senior design talent. Partner with creative and game directors to ensure the design organization is equipped to realize the studio's creative ambitions.
Senior Quantitative UX Researcher, AI Enablement
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
Google 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
The role involves designing agent-assisted pipelines to analyze large-scale system logs and defining system-level KPIs to optimize developer workflows. You will collaborate with engineering and product teams to translate complex telemetry into actionable user insights for AI infrastructure.
Senior Quantitative UX Researcher, AI Enablement
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States
Google 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States
The role involves designing agent-assisted pipelines to analyze large-scale system logs and defining system-level KPIs to optimize developer workflows. You will collaborate with engineering and product teams to translate complex telemetry into actionable user insights for AI infrastructure.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Curriculum Associates 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Senior UX Designer will create intuitive experiences for the Educator platform by transforming complex needs into high-fidelity prototypes and functional designs. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define user requirements and ensure proper implementation within an Agile environment.
Senior Quantitative UX Researcher, AI Enablement
🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States
Google 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States
Design and implement agent-assisted pipelines to analyze large-scale system logs and telemetry to generate actionable user insights. Define and track system-level KPIs and lead complex experiments to optimize AI infrastructure and developer workflows.
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.