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UX Designer – Sedgwick AI
🇺🇸 Tennessee, United States of America
Sedgwick 🇺🇸 Tennessee, United States of America
The UX AI Designer leads the strategy and design of intuitive, human-centered AI experiences, including Generative AI and conversational interfaces, to support business transformation. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure AI solutions are usable, explainable, and aligned with enterprise goals.
Senior UX Designer (m/w/d)
🇨🇭 Bern, Bern-Mittelland, Switzerland
Ekkiden 🇨🇭 Bern, Bern-Mittelland, Switzerland
The Senior UX Designer will lead user research, create wireframes and prototypes, and ensure digital services meet accessibility standards. They will collaborate closely with product owners, business analysts, and development teams to validate solutions through usability testing.
Modern Desktop Product Designer
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Kingfisher 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Design and deliver modern desktop services including Windows 11, InTune, and Autopilot to support infrastructure objectives. Provide technical leadership and governance while collaborating with stakeholders to ensure consistent, high-quality service delivery.
Senior Product Designer, Growth Experiences
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Stash 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of in-product growth loops to drive user acquisition and engagement through shareable experiences and social investing tools. They will partner with cross-functional teams to translate data insights into intuitive, behavior-driven user experiences that promote healthy financial habits.
Roadway Design Engineering Associate
🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America
Dks Associates 🇺🇸 Boise, Idaho, United States of America
The role involves performing roadway, drainage, and multimodal design tasks while preparing construction plans, cost estimates, and technical documentation. You will coordinate with internal teams and project leadership to ensure design deliverables meet quality standards, schedules, and budget requirements.
UX Designer, AWS Field Experience
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
You will design end-to-end user experiences for AWS sales tools, collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. You are responsible for leading the creative process, advocating for design excellence, and maintaining healthy relationships with stakeholders.
UX Designer, AWS Field Experience
🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States of America
You will design end-to-end user experiences for strategic AWS sales initiatives, balancing complex workflows and diverse stakeholder needs. Additionally, you will lead the creative process, advocate for design excellence, and measure the health of user experiences quantitatively and qualitatively.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Novo 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead design on complex, cross-platform product initiatives and define the strategy for Novo's most ambiguous design challenges. Additionally, you will own the evolution of the design system and mentor other designers to ensure high-quality, coherent product experiences.
Design Manager - Higher Education - Senior
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Gensler 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Lead complex higher education design projects from initial pursuit through construction and occupancy. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage project scope, budgets, and schedules while maintaining high design quality and client satisfaction.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Whatnot 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design of end-to-end workflows for user-facing features, internal tools, and core platform systems. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate complex problems into intuitive, scalable, and user-centric product experiences.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Novo 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
You will lead design on complex cross-platform initiatives, owning the end-to-end strategy from problem framing to execution. Additionally, you will evolve the company's design system and mentor other designers to ensure product coherence and high-quality standards.
Senior Product Designer - Colombia | Contractor
🇨🇴 Colombia
Very 🇨🇴 Colombia
You will lead the full arc of product design from discovery and strategy to shipping launched products while collaborating closely with engineering. The role involves building complex user-facing applications using React and TypeScript while integrating AI into your design workflow.
Senior Product Designer, Global Markets, VP
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
State Street 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead end-to-end product design for AI-enabled financial platforms while partnering with engineering and product teams to define future-state experiences. You will transform complex financial processes into intuitive user-centered solutions and establish design approaches for intelligent automation.
Product Designer (Lead)
🇵🇱 Poland
Selfpatch.ai 🇵🇱 Poland
You will own the end-to-end design process, including the product UI, design system, brand, and website. Your primary goal is to make complex factory fault diagnostics readable and actionable for technicians.
Director of Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
Dp Professionals (dpp) 🇺🇸 Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
The Director of Design Engineering will lead and manage the engineering team, overseeing all technical designs, documentation, and quality standards. They will work directly with the CEO to establish engineering strategy and ensure all residential projects meet safety and code requirements.
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.