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Senior Product Designer

🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The Senior Product Designer will lead the design process for B2C Mortgage Finder products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions. They will champion user-centered design practices and ensure alignment with customer needs and business goals.

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Senior Product Designer

🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the design process for B2B and B2C products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions. You will champion user-centered design practices and contribute to the overall design strategy for the business unit.

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Senior Product Designer (Menu Management) - Fixed term

🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany

The Senior Product Designer will improve how restaurants manage and elevate their menu offerings across the global platform, focusing on intuitive self-service flows and quality standards. They will lead design conversations and collaborate with various stakeholders to define and solve meaningful product problems.

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Lead Product Designer - Rocket Ready

As the Lead Product Designer, you will design tools and experiences for Credit Upgrade consultants and build systems to support a larger client base. You will work across various product surfaces to create intuitive flows and scalable workflows.

Hybrid$140,000 - $170,000Full-timeSenior
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Lead Product Designer - Visibility/Spend Control

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States

The Lead Product Designer will guide the Visibility and Spend Control team, overseeing the development and execution of the design strategy. This includes managing a team of designers to create seamless, data-driven user experiences across various app features.

Hybrid$140,000 - $170,000Full-timeSenior
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Medior Graphic Designer

🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Design spatial graphics for retail environments and deliver high-quality production assets for print and digital applications. Collaborate with various designers and lead design phases on Nike projects.

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Iru

Staff Product Designer

🌍 Remote

Iru is seeking a Staff Product Designer to join their Product Design team. The ideal candidate will lead the creation of high-quality design deliverables, leverage user research insights, and collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other designers.

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Senior Product Designer

🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The Senior Product Designer will transform customer and business outcomes into native mobile experiences and design user journeys that integrate financial and property data. They will lead research and discovery efforts, ensuring design decisions balance user needs with business goals.

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Lead Product Designer

🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore

The Lead Product Designer will lead user discovery activities, map user journeys, and create rapid prototypes to explore concepts. They will collaborate with the Service Designer to ensure product flows align with the overall service and operational reality.

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Yahoo

Principal Product Designer, Yahoo Finance

🇺🇸 United States

Principal Product Designer at Yahoo Finance, leading design vision and execution for high-impact initiatives that combine human insight with intelligent technology.

Hybrid$143,625 - $299,375Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer

🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel

Lead end-to-end feature design from concept to execution, including prototyping interactions and new AI behaviors. Collaborate closely with engineering to ensure high-quality visual and interaction details are implemented in the final product.

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Graphic Designer

🇿🇦 Eastern Cape, South Africa

You will design and animate creative assets for CRM and social media campaigns, collaborating closely with the CRM and Social Media Managers. You will also report to and work with the Creative & Art Lead to align on creative direction and strategy.

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Lead Graphic Designer

🇵🇭 Muntinlupa, Metro Manila, Philippines

The Lead Graphic Designer will work closely with the team to develop cohesive event design concepts and create high-quality visual assets for various marketing platforms. Responsibilities also include maintaining websites and ensuring compliance with brand guidelines and ADA requirements.

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Senior Graphic Designer

🇦🇪 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the conceptualization and execution of creative design projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality design solutions. Responsibilities include developing brand identity guidelines and creating engaging visual content for both digital and print media.

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Senior AI Product Designer - Evisort AI

🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

You will own and lead design and research on product initiatives in Contract Workflow and related areas. Key responsibilities include shipping world-class features, conducting user research, and mentoring team members.

Hybrid$139,200 - $208,800Full-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.