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Find your next Design Leadership role at companies that value creative talent

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Senior Product Designer

🇨🇾 Limassol, Limassol Municipality, Cyprus

Design and optimize complex mobile and web user flows with a focus on growth and measurable product impact. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to validate hypotheses through experiments and maintain scalable design systems.

Onsite$90,000 - $120,000Full-timeSenior
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Sr Bilingual UX Designer (100% remote)

Remote (🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

Develop user scenarios, high-fidelity wireframes, and prototypes using Figma while adhering to the design system. Collaborate with developers and product managers to ensure technical feasibility and implement accessible interfaces for health products.

Remote$80,000 - $110,000Full-timeMid-level
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Senior Product Designer, Web Experience & Design Systems

🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Own and optimize Neo's web platform, including the core website, landing pages, and conversion flows to drive customer acquisition. Develop and evolve scalable design systems, components, and workflows to ensure consistency and speed across product and marketing surfaces.

Onsite$120,000 - $180,000Full-timeSenior
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UI/ UX Designer

Remote (🇵🇭 Philippines)

Design seamless, high-conversion web experiences and interactive prototypes to support product adoption and user acquisition. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement scalable design systems and iterate based on data insights.

Remote$90,000 - $120,000Full-timeSenior
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UI/UX Designer

🇺🇸 United States of America

Design intuitive, user-centered experiences and high-fidelity UI for web-based products and data tools. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate complex workflows into simple interfaces and evolve the design system.

Hybrid$85,000 - $110,000Full-timeMid-level
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Staff Product Designer

Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)

Solve complex military planning problems by developing a seamless end-to-end planning tool. Work across UX, UI, and user research to define new features and shape the company's design system.

Remote$185,000 - $230,000Full-timeStaff
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Senior Product Designer

Remote (🇺🇸 Rapid City, South Dakota, United States of America)

Own complex, cross-surface design initiatives from discovery to delivery to improve measurable business outcomes. Partner with Product Management and Engineering to translate user pain points into high-fidelity designs and evolve the design system.

Remote$135,000 - $140,000Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer

Create intuitive and accessible digital learning experiences for K-12 students, educators, and administrators. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate user insights into scalable designs and maintain the company's design system.

Onsite$111,842 - $117,300Full-timeMid-level
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Product Designer Pleno - Campinas/SP

🇧🇷 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Create and evolve intuitive user flows and interface patterns to ensure a consistent experience across all banking product journeys. Use user feedback and metrics to identify friction points and contribute to the evolution of the internal Design System.

OnsiteFull-timeMid-level
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Principal UX Designer

🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America

Drive the experience definition for a portfolio of robotic surgical systems, including GUI, light, and sound. Lead the creation of UX strategies, design systems, and workflows while mentoring junior designers and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Hybrid$157,000 - $271,400Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer (Systems)

Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)

Own the design system and UX standards to enable PMs and engineers to ship consistent UI. Focus on creating scalable patterns, conducting proactive discovery, and coaching cross-functional teams on UX best practices.

Remote$170,000 - $200,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer (Mobile Apps)

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

Lead the end-to-end design of the Android application, focusing on onboarding, financial workflows, and AI-powered interactions. Establish mobile UX standards and scalable design systems to ensure consistency and quality across the Monstro platform.

Onsite$168,000 - $200,000Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer Sênior - Canais Diretos

🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil

The role involves creating consistent user solutions for anti-fraud platforms by collaborating with product, engineering, and data teams. Responsibilities include conducting user research, developing wireframes and prototypes, and evolving the Design System to ensure scalability.

OnsiteFull-timeMid-level
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Senior Product Designer, Sportsbook

🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal

Lead the design and maintenance of the design system across web and mobile applications from ideation to high-fidelity prototyping. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineers and product managers to deliver user-centric experiences for the Sportsbook product.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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Visual / Product Designer

🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Design sophisticated, accessible digital experiences for web and mobile products while maintaining and evolving design systems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to present design rationales and incorporate user research into visual solutions.

HybridFull-timeSenior
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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.