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Graphic Designer - Creative Agency
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Game Companies 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Create and deliver visual assets and concepts for Gameloft’s corporate and employer branding across digital, print, social media, events, merchandise, and internal communications. Manage projects from brief to final delivery, collaborate with international teams, and help maintain and improve brand guidelines, templates, and design systems.
Lead UX Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Thermo Fisher Scientific 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Bangalore North, India
Lead end-to-end UX/UI design, from user research and requirements analysis through prototyping, validation, and implementation, creating intuitive experiences for complex applications. Establish and govern design systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, improve usability, and mentor designers while advocating for user-centered design.
UI Designer (Remote)
Remote (🇮🇳 India)
Joblet-ai Remote (🇮🇳 India)
Evaluate interfaces and document clear, well-reasoned design analyses, recommendations, and guidelines for design systems and component libraries. Create Figma mockups and comprehensive design documentation, ensuring visual quality, usability, and accessibility.
UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Torentify 🇺🇸 United States of America
Design engaging, responsive digital merchandising and customer acquisition experiences, translating business objectives into polished, user-centered interfaces. Extend visual design systems and create production-ready designs and assets while collaborating with developers and cross-functional teams.
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Product Designer, Sr. (UI Focus)
🇺🇸 United States of America
Torentify 🇺🇸 United States of America
Design and validate polished, accessible product experiences for complex web and native mobile products, using research, usability findings, and established design systems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to communicate design direction, maintain clear artifacts, and provide implementation-ready specifications.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
Inadev 🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
Lead user research and UX strategy, and create accessible, user-centered designs for system builds, application enhancements, and modernization initiatives. Use AI-assisted design tools, maintain design systems and standards, and collaborate with product, engineering, and stakeholders to validate designs and align priorities.
Design Systems Designer (Remote, Escuintla)
Remote (🇬🇹 01066-San Miguel Petapa, Guatemala)
Blacksmith Agency Remote (🇬🇹 01066-San Miguel Petapa, Guatemala)
Build and maintain Figma design systems for multiple distinct client brands, including token architecture, variables, modes, and reusable component libraries. Provide documentation and developer handoff that enable teams and build pipelines to implement systems without clarification.
Product Designer
🇨🇦 Canada
Haystack 🇨🇦 Canada
Design and prototype product experiences for developer tools and agentic development environments, collaborating closely with engineering and product teams. Improve existing workflows and features, craft new features from concept through polished execution, manage the design system, and test designs with users and internal teams.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Haystack 🇺🇸 United States of America
Collaborate with product teammates to scope features, then own high-quality designs, interactions, and prototypes from ideation through launch. Use AI design tools and user research to explore and validate ideas, contribute to the design system, and maintain a high design standard through implementation.
Web Designer
🇦🇺 Australia
Haystack 🇦🇺 Australia
Design, test, and deliver landing pages, page variants, UI modules, and interactive web experiences to improve conversion and web performance. Collaborate with growth marketing and development teams on experiments, and expand the design system by turning successful patterns into reusable components.
Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru Urban, - 560003, Karnataka, India
The Alter Office 🇮🇳 Bengaluru Urban, - 560003, Karnataka, India
Own product design from problem discovery and solution definition through prototyping, implementation, and ongoing improvement. Collaborate with developers, product teams, and stakeholders to research, test, and deliver accessible web and mobile experiences, including functional AI-enabled prototypes and scalable design systems.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Haystack 🇺🇸 United States of America
Design and prototype product experiences for developer tools and agentic development environments, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams. Improve existing workflows and features, contribute to the design system, and test designs with users and internal teams.
Senior UX Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Supervised 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own end-to-end design of the Supervised platform, including research, user flows, voice AI interactions, agent configuration, dashboards, and production-ready UI. Build and maintain the design system, collaborate closely with engineers and co-founders, and test design decisions with pilot clients.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Haystack 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the design process from UX strategy through product design and company branding, collaborating with engineering, product, and other teams to create strong user experiences. Develop and maintain the design system and brand assets, and contribute throughout product development from initial concept to final production.
Senior UX Designer, Consumer (m/f/d)
🇳🇱 Heerenveen, Frisia, Netherlands
Riverty 🇳🇱 Heerenveen, Frisia, Netherlands
Lead user-centered design across consumer services and touchpoints, using research, end-to-end flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs to improve the user experience. Validate and iterate on designs using user feedback and performance metrics, contribute to the design system, and collaborate with product and technology partners while advocating for customers.
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.