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Lead Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cloudera 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
You will lead the full user-centered design process, including user research, interface design, and prototyping for the Cloudera Platform. Additionally, you will collaborate with product triads and engineering teams to deliver usable solutions while mentoring other designers.
Lead Product Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cloudera 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
You will lead the full user-centered design process for enterprise-ready product initiatives, including user research, prototyping, and high-fidelity interface design. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams and the product triad to improve usability, design systems, and product quality.
UX Designer
South Korea, Seoul
Sendbird South Korea, Seoul
You will lead the UX strategy for Sendbird's AI products, aligning business goals with user needs while defining complex UX solutions. Additionally, you will innovate the team's design process by integrating AI tools and establishing new UX standards.
UX Designer
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Rumble 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The UX Designer will translate product requirements into engaging user experiences across Web, Mobile, and OTT platforms while evolving the company's visual language and design system. They will also lead usability research, create prototypes, and align cross-functional teams to ensure a cohesive product development process.
Senior UX Designer
🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1-800-got-junk? 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
As a Senior UX Designer, you will lead UX research across multiple products and work closely with product managers and engineers to advocate for customer needs. You will also mentor junior designers and contribute to the design system.
UI/UX Designer for the ShareTheMeal Initiative
Remote (🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany)
World Food Programme Remote (🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany)
The consultant will design appealing user interfaces and improve the user experience for the ShareTheMeal app by creating wireframes, prototypes, and development-ready mockups. They will also lead user research, validate requirements, and ensure usability principles are followed throughout the product development cycle.
Senior UX Designer - Vice President
🇮🇳 Chennai, India
Citi 🇮🇳 Chennai, India
Drive business impact by defining UX goals, planning design activities, and partnering with stakeholders to deliver intuitive user-centered solutions. Monitor feature performance through data analysis and lead cross-functional work streams to ensure successful product launches.
Senior UX Designer - Vice President
🇮🇳 Chennai, India
Citi 🇮🇳 Chennai, India
Drive business impact by leading end-to-end UX design activities, from product planning and market launch to performance monitoring. Partner with cross-functional teams to solve complex technical requirements and ensure intuitive, user-centered solutions that align with business objectives.
Senior Manager, Product Designer - UX/UI
🇨🇳 China
Makro Pro 🇨🇳 China
The Senior Manager, Product Designer leads a team to create research-backed, end-to-end product experiences while collaborating with business and technical leaders. They are responsible for managing design activities from ideation to execution, mentoring team members, and aligning product roadmaps with customer insights.
Senior Manager, Product Designer - UX/UI
🇰🇷 South Korea
Makro Pro 🇰🇷 South Korea
The Senior Manager, Product Designer leads a team to create research-backed, end-to-end product experiences while collaborating with business and technical leaders. They are responsible for managing design activities from research through execution and mentoring the team to ensure high-quality, user-centered outcomes.
Staff Product Designer ㅡ Coupang Play
South Korea, Seoul
Coupang South Korea, Seoul
The Staff Product Designer will lead the overall product experience for Coupang Play, driving design strategy from conception to execution. They will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product managers, engineers, and marketers to deliver high-quality, user-centric solutions across mobile, web, and TV platforms.
Senior Product Designer (Fintech UX)
South Korea, Seoul
Coupang South Korea, Seoul
Lead end-to-end design projects for innovative financial services by collaborating with product, business, data, and engineering teams. Contribute to product vision, roadmap development, and identify user experience improvements through data-driven analysis.
[L5] Senior Product Designer (Fintech UX)
South Korea, Seoul
Coupang Internal South Korea, Seoul
Lead end-to-end design projects for innovative financial services by collaborating with product, business, data, and engineering teams. Contribute to product vision and roadmaps while identifying and analyzing service issues to improve user experience.
Sr. UX Designer I
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Yum! 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Senior UX Designer will lead the experience design for the Routine Management System, defining direction across a complex, multi-surface product area. You will independently frame problems, align cross-functional partners, and deliver scalable solutions to improve operational clarity and usability.
Industrial Design Engineer, Worldwide Engineering & Innovation's (WWEI) Design Engineering team
🇺🇸 Cleburne, Texas, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Cleburne, Texas, United States of America
Lead and coordinate design and innovation efforts for sortation and transportation networks, including equipment specification and process design. Collaborate with internal and external teams to deliver high-quality, cost-effective solutions for complex logistics projects.
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.