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Senior Director, Design
🇺🇸 New York, NY
Proto 🇺🇸 New York, NY
As a leader of our Design practice at Proto, you will guide a team of visual and verbal designers to concept ideas and bring them to life through thoughtful, expressive, and enduring design. You’ll help define how brands and products look, sound, and behave in the world by connecting strategy to craft and concept to execution. You’ll help clients see potential and find inspiration in the strategy made real through creative concepts. You have a strong creative point of view that balances bold imagination and clear strategic intent. You bring depth to design systems that guide how people interact with and understand their world. Your work will inspire teams and clients alike to see how design not only shapes perception but also builds meaning and drives growth.
UI Designer
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nonconformist 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Argentina
The UI Designer will create high-quality style guides, components, and patterns while maintaining and documenting design systems. They will collaborate with product teams and support other designers in using shared patterns.
Mid Product Designer (UI/UX)
🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
Expleo 🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania
The role involves designing intuitive, ergonomic UX/UI for web, mobile, and tablet, defining interactions, and contributing to multi-brand Design Systems while adhering to accessibility standards. Responsibilities also include preparing clear handoff specifications for development and collaborating cross-functionally with product owners and engineers to ensure timely, quality delivery.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🌍 Remote
Hire Overseas 🌍 Remote
The Senior UI/UX Designer will define and evolve the visual and interaction layer of a digital product, focusing on design systems and prototyping. They will own the design of product and marketing surfaces, ensuring usability and clarity.
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Senior UI/UX Designer
🌍 Remote
Hire Overseas 🌍 Remote
This role is responsible for defining and evolving the visual and interaction layer of a digital product, focusing heavily on building and maintaining a comprehensive design system and creating high-quality prototypes.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🌍 Remote
Hire Overseas 🌍 Remote
The Senior UI/UX Designer will define and evolve the visual and interaction layer of a digital product, focusing on design systems and prototyping. Responsibilities include building a design system, creating high-quality prototypes, and translating designs into functional websites.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Fairfax, Virginia, United States
Bixal 🇺🇸 Fairfax, Virginia, United States
Responsibilities include conducting user research, designing wireframes and high-fidelity UI solutions for web platforms, and ensuring designs meet Section 508 accessibility requirements and WCAG standards. The role also involves collaborating with developers, applying human-centered design methods, and contributing to shared design systems like USWDS.
Product Designer
🇳🇬 Eti Osa, Lagos State, Nigeria
Bamboo 🇳🇬 Eti Osa, Lagos State, Nigeria
The Product Designer will be responsible for designing and improving core product experiences across mobile and web platforms, collaborating with Product Managers and Engineers from concept through launch. This involves owning the end-to-end design process, translating user needs into elegant solutions, and maintaining the design system.
UX Designer - UXD/Digital Design System (DDS)
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Syncreon Consulting 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
The UX Designer will focus on creating digital and email design patterns and components, as well as interactive digital experiences. This role involves leading discovery work on new design patterns across multiple channels.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States
Jerry.ai 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States
The Staff Product Designer will lead design initiatives across core offerings like insurance, safety, and repairs, focusing on shipping 0 to 1 features that modernize car care for everyday drivers. Responsibilities also include building and evolving the design system while thoughtfully applying AI to enhance user experience.
Product Designer
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Experiencegift 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The Product Designer will take ownership of UI and visual design across web and mobile products, collaborating closely with product managers and developers. They will ensure designs are intuitive, visually polished, consistent, and scalable while contributing to the creation of the design system.
Product Designer UX/UI (Remote- based in EMEA)
🌍 Remote
Visit.org 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer will advocate for exceptional, customer-centric experiences, owning large portions of complex products and leading UX/UI design for new and existing initiatives. Responsibilities include defining requirements, designing interactions, partnering with engineering for implementation, and owning/maintaining the design system.
Product Designer UX/UI (Remote- based in EMEA)
🌍 Remote
Visit.org 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer will advocate for exceptional, customer-centric experiences, owning large portions of complex products and defining UX/UI design for new and existing initiatives. Responsibilities include designing detailed interactions, partnering with engineering for implementation, and owning/evolving the design system for consistency and scalability.
Product Designer UX/UI (Remote- based in EMEA)
🌍 Remote
Visit.org 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer will advocate for exceptional, customer-centric experiences, owning large portions of complex products and defining UX/UI design for new and existing initiatives. Responsibilities include translating requirements into clear workflows, designing detailed interactions, partnering with engineering for implementation, and owning/maintaining the design system.
Product Designer UX/UI (Remote- based in EMEA)
🌍 Remote
Visit.org 🌍 Remote
The Product Designer will advocate for exceptional, customer-centric experiences, owning large portions of complex products and defining UX/UI design for new and existing initiatives. Responsibilities include designing detailed interactions, partnering with engineering for implementation, and owning/maintaining the design system for consistency.
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.