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Senior Quantitative UX Researcher
🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Trustpilot 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
You will own the quantitative research roadmap for your product areas, designing and executing large-scale surveys and behavioural analytics. You will also partner with Data Science to build measurement frameworks and coach the team on statistical rigour.
Senior Quantitative UX Researcher
🇬🇧 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Trustpilot 🇬🇧 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
You will own the quantitative research roadmap for your product areas, including behavioral analysis, large-scale surveys, and longitudinal tracking. You will also partner with Data Science to build shared measurement frameworks and coach the team on statistical rigor.
Senior Product Designer / Senior Strategic Product Manager
🇨🇳 Nanjing City, Jiangsu, China
南京金斯瑞生物科技有限公司 🇨🇳 Nanjing City, Jiangsu, China
Define the long-term strategic product portfolio and roadmaps for life science reagents over a 3-5 year horizon. Translate customer insights and emerging technology trends into high-impact product specifications and business cases for executive leadership.
Senior UX Designer
🇮🇳 pune, Maharashtra, India
Ciena 🇮🇳 pune, Maharashtra, India
Lead and execute complex design initiatives while conducting in-depth analysis of user needs and business requirements. Maintain cross-portfolio UX guidelines and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a unified and scalable user experience.
Senior UX Designer, Google Sheets
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Google 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design intuitive, AI-empowered experiences for Google Sheets. Drive design thinking and product innovation to solve complex technical problems and influence product strategy.
Senior UX Designer, Google Sheets
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
Google 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design intuitive, AI-empowered experiences for Google Sheets. Drive design thinking and product innovation to solve complex technical problems and influence product strategy.
Senior UX Designer, Google Sheets
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Google 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design complex, technical features for Google Sheets while driving product innovation. Influence stakeholders and pioneer AI-driven design strategies to enhance user experiences and meet business outcomes.
Fractional Senior Product Designer
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Stealth Ai Startup 🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Own the end-to-end product design process for complex B2B and enterprise AI-native products. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to create scalable user journeys, high-fidelity UIs, and evolving design systems.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇦🇺 Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia
Billini 🇦🇺 Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia
Develop engaging brand assets across retail, web, social, and wholesale channels to maintain a cohesive brand identity. Create a wide range of materials including POS displays, seasonal lookbooks, packaging, and interactive digital content.
Senior - Graphic Designer
🇮🇩 Gambir, Central Java, Indonesia
1engage 🇮🇩 Gambir, Central Java, Indonesia
Lead the end-to-end creative production of multi-channel campaigns, combining high-impact visual design with compelling copywriting. Present creative strategies directly to clients and ensure visual consistency across all brand touchpoints.
Junior Graphic Designer
🇧🇪 Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
Kith&kin 🇧🇪 Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
Support the creative team in developing visual concepts, logo development, and brand identity systems for digital and print materials. Collaborate with senior designers and strategists to refine design work and prepare files for production.
Senior Design Manager
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Symal Group 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead the engineering and design function for a $800M Solar and BESS project, managing multidisciplinary teams to deliver construction-ready designs. Drive value engineering to protect margins while ensuring technical compliance with client specifications and network agreements.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nextsense 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Develop creative print and digital graphic content to raise awareness and support tactical activities for the organization. Responsibilities include designing marketing collateral, implementing brand guidelines, and producing digital media content such as photography and video.
Senior Product Designer - Personal Everyday Banking
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
National Australia Bank 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Senior Product Designer will apply human-centred design techniques to create inclusive and usable products, services, and features. They are responsible for conducting research, creating user flows, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to define cohesive design standards.
Senior Product Designer - HCM
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
National Australia Bank 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Design and launch user-centric experiences that empower customers and colleagues while creating lasting business value. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define accessible design standards and interaction patterns across the product suite.
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.