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Senior Digital Product Designer (UI/UX)
🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Popcorn 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
Own the end-to-end product experience for an AI video ad studio, focusing on simplifying complex creative workflows. Responsible for information architecture, bilingual English/Arabic interfaces, and maintaining a custom design system across mobile and web.
UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Big Happy 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The UX Designer will translate complex business workflows into intuitive UX/UI solutions and production-ready interfaces. They will collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to own features from discovery through delivery while contributing to the company's design system.
Visual Designer
🇺🇸 Mason, Ohio, United States of America
Manpowergroup 🇺🇸 Mason, Ohio, United States of America
The Visual Designer creates layouts, illustrations, and visual content for both print and digital media. They are also responsible for developing UI deliverables, maintaining design systems, and conducting UI research and accessibility reviews.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 Broomfield, Colorado, United States of America
Ikegps 🇺🇸 Broomfield, Colorado, United States of America
The Product Designer will create intuitive user experiences and 3D geospatial interfaces for cloud-native applications serving the utility and infrastructure sectors. They will build and maintain a Figma-based design system while leveraging AI-powered tools to accelerate prototyping and validation.
Interaction Designer
🇨🇦 Canada
Perseus Group, Constellation Software 🇨🇦 Canada
The interaction designer will transform complex problems into elegant user experiences across desktop, web, and mobile platforms. They are responsible for owning the design system, conducting user research, and collaborating with development teams to ensure high-quality design implementation.
UX Product Designer
🇨🇴 Colombia
Solvedex 🇨🇴 Colombia
The designer will create intuitive and accessible digital experiences by maintaining design systems using Microsoft Fluent UI and collaborating with engineering teams. They are responsible for translating user needs and business goals into high-fidelity prototypes and validated interfaces.
Product Designer
🇬🇧 Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Axa 🇬🇧 Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, United Kingdom
The Product Designer will lead the design and optimization of user journeys across websites and portals while managing the UI kit and design system. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality, accessible, and consistent digital experiences that meet strategic goals.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Anduril Industries 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Design and iterate upon the Matter design system, including primitives, tokens, and components across web, mobile, and XR platforms. Establish governance practices and drive alignment across engineering and design teams to ensure scalable and consistent software experiences.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
Netapp 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States of America
You will design quoting, subscription lifecycle, and capacity management workflows for the Keystone product team. You will collaborate with product and engineering partners to translate complex enterprise requirements into usable product experiences using the Blueprint design system.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Costa Mesa, California, United States of America
Anduril Industries 🇺🇸 Costa Mesa, California, United States of America
Design and iterate upon the Matter design system, including primitives, tokens, components, and guidelines across multiple platforms. Establish governance practices and drive alignment between leadership, designers, and engineers to ensure scalable software craft.
Product Designer II, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Coinbase 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own the iterative improvement and scaling of the Coinbase Design System components across web and mobile platforms. Partner with engineering and design teams to define, document, and evangelize scalable design patterns.
Software Product Designer
🇺🇸 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States of America
Formlabs 🇺🇸 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States of America
You will collaborate with engineering and product teams to design and develop user experiences for embedded, desktop, and web products. This includes conducting user research, creating high-fidelity prototypes, and maintaining scalable design systems to ensure consistent product quality.
Product Designer II, Design Systems
🇺🇸 United States of America
Coinbase 🇺🇸 United States of America
You will own the iterative improvement of design system components and patterns to ensure they scale across web and mobile products. Additionally, you will partner with cross-functional teams to define, document, and evangelize scalable design patterns while contributing to the long-term systems strategy.
Senior UX Designer
🇧🇪 Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
In4matic 🇧🇪 Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
The role involves designing and iterating wireframes, prototypes, and visual interfaces to create intuitive and accessible digital experiences. The designer will also develop responsive screen designs and maintain comprehensive design systems to ensure product consistency.
Senior Visual Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Abelcine 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Visual Designer will define and maintain the visual identity for broadcast studio programming across multiple shows. They will translate complex data and strategic information into compelling on-screen graphics and scalable design systems.
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.