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Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Strong Force Analytics 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer is responsible for creating high-fidelity designs, wireframes, and design systems for data-heavy products. They must also convert these designs into functional frontend code and create visual templates for marketing and social media.
UX-Designer ePartners
🇳🇱 Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Kpn 🇳🇱 Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Take ownership of the digital customer and partner experience across the entire journey from sales to support. Translate complex business processes into intuitive designs while contributing to the KPN Design System and collaborating within the UX Guild.
Principal Product Designer
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
New Relic 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Principal Product Designer will lead complex design initiatives across the UX platform and design system, focusing on AI-native experiences and workflows. They will act as a senior design authority, mentoring team members and partnering with engineering and product leadership to drive strategic outcomes.
UI/UX Designer (w/m/d)
🇮🇹 Sterzing - Vipiteno, Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy
Skadii 🇮🇹 Sterzing - Vipiteno, Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy
Translate complex B2B requirements into intuitive user journeys and design interfaces for web and mobile products. Develop wireframes and prototypes based on user research and contribute to the scaling of the internal Design System in Figma.
UX Designer - Design systems
🇮🇹 Italy
Joinrs 🇮🇹 Italy
Build and evolve Canonical's design system to ensure consistency, scalability, and accessibility across all products. Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to translate user needs into reusable components and design tokens.
Senior Product Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Ensek 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will own end-to-end design across core B2B product areas, shaping user journeys and workflows from discovery to delivery. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to connect design decisions to product strategy while mentoring others and evolving the design system.
Product Designer (Maternity Cover)
🇷🇸 Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia
Learnupon 🇷🇸 Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia
You will design and deliver end-to-end UX/UI solutions while collaborating with product managers and engineers to define and solve design challenges. Additionally, you will conduct user research, maintain design system components, and advocate for accessibility across product features.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Walmart 🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Lead the development of user experience strategies through comprehensive research, interaction design, and prototyping to align business goals with user needs. Collaborate with stakeholders to create scalable, user-centered design systems across digital and physical touchpoints for Walmart's services.
Senior UX Designer
🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Sharkninja 🇬🇧 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end UX design process for global direct-to-consumer websites, from research and wireframing to high-fidelity UI and engineering handoff. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve conversion and customer satisfaction through data-driven experimentation and scalable design systems.
Senior Product Designer mit UX-Schwerpunkt
🇩🇪 Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany
Instaffo 🇩🇪 Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany
The role involves end-to-end responsibility for the user experience of internal tools and customer platforms, including the analysis of complex workflows. Key tasks include conducting user research, developing wireframes and prototypes, and evolving the company's design system.
Lead UI Designer
🇫🇷 Issy-les-Moulineaux, Ile-de-France, France
Pluxee 🇫🇷 Issy-les-Moulineaux, Ile-de-France, France
The Lead UI Designer will own the vision, governance, and evolution of the global Design System while managing a team of UI designers. They will collaborate across product, engineering, and marketing teams to ensure visual consistency, accessibility, and high-performing digital product experiences.
Technical Product Designer (2 Job Openings)
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Aarp 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States
The Technical Product Designer translates technical product strategy and user needs into intuitive digital experiences by creating end-to-end designs and interactive prototypes. They partner with product teams to turn requirements into actionable design artifacts while evolving design systems to ensure scalability.
Lead UX Designer
🇸🇪 Skellefteå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
Nuiteq® 🇸🇪 Skellefteå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
Lead the UX/UI revitalization across the Chorus platform and the broader product ecosystem, including Sho and Campfire. Responsible for building and governing scalable design systems and streamlining complex workflows for multi-platform applications.
Product Designer - Barcelona
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Pillar 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Product Designer will handle end-to-end product design to build a financial operating system for the construction industry. This includes expanding and maintaining scalable design systems and collaborating with cross-functional squads in an AI-first environment.
Product Designer
🇳🇱 Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Rentman 🇳🇱 Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
You will lead the design of complex equipment management features by creating design briefs, conducting user research, and building a robust design system. You will collaborate closely with product managers and developers to ensure high-quality design execution throughout the product release cycle.
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.