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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.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America)
Point Digital Finance, Inc. Remote (🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America)
This role is responsible for evolving and maintaining the company's design system to be well-organized, documented, and structured for AI tooling, while also advancing the overall visual language of the product. The designer will create high-fidelity, customer-facing experiences that guide homeowners through significant financial decisions.
Principal UX Designer, eero
🇺🇸 Pasadena, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Pasadena, California, United States of America
The Principal UX Designer will enhance product usability, scale team standards, and act as a design role model, delivering solutions across the entire product life cycle for both mobile apps and network management tools. Key duties involve evaluating customer challenges, collaborating on requirements, advocating for design principles, and establishing design systems.
Lead Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Cortex 🌍 Remote
The Lead Product Designer will drive the design vision and execution for major features, setting a new standard for user experience across critical product surfaces. Responsibilities include proactively resolving complex UX issues, owning the design system in Figma, and executing high-fidelity prototypes for validation.
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Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States of America)
Stukent Remote (🇺🇸 Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process, from research and wireframes to production-ready specifications, while partnering closely with product managers and engineers through discovery and delivery. This role also involves contributing to and evolving the company's design system, ensuring consistency, scalability, and accessibility across all product surfaces.
Junior UI/UX Designer
The primary duties involve designing landing pages for educational programs and marketing campaigns, alongside enhancing and optimizing the website focusing on conversion rates through A/B testing. Responsibilities also include contributing to the website design system and collaborating with marketing, product, and development teams.
UX Designer
🇬🇧 Belfast City District, Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Aflac Northern Ireland 🇬🇧 Belfast City District, Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
The role involves designing user-centered workflows and interfaces for internal users tackling complex service tasks, translating business rules into clear, usable experiences within low-code or configuration-driven systems. Responsibilities also include improving existing design systems and collaborating with product and engineering teams on AI-assisted flows.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
Fireworks Ai 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
The Product Designer will own the entire design process, from research and prototyping to high-fidelity design and iteration, focusing on making complex AI infrastructure workflows intuitive for developers. Key tasks include translating technical processes like model deployment and inference monitoring into usable interfaces and evolving the platform's design system.
Senior/Staff/Principal Product Designer (ACF)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Skylight Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Product designers partner across disciplines to research user needs, define flows and interactions, and design accessible interfaces that scale across complex systems. They also contribute to design systems, prototype ideas to reduce risk, and ensure design decisions are evidence-based.
UI / Product Designer (Visual & Design Systems Focus)
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
Quickteam 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
The role involves transforming structured UX ideas and wireframes into polished, production-ready designs, focusing heavily on creating clean, modern interfaces and ensuring visual consistency across the product. A key duty is building and maintaining a scalable design system, including components, styles, and tokens, while preparing organized files for smooth developer handoff.
Lead Product Designer
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
R/ga Careers Page 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
The role involves leading a specific design area by focusing on the craft of interaction design, motion, and micro-details, while thoughtfully evolving design systems. Designers must collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to distill requirements and drive design solutions.
Senior Digital Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
Rbc 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior Digital Designer will lead the creative development of digital projects from concept to final delivery, taking full ownership of critical design systems and user journeys. Responsibilities include conceptualizing high-fidelity designs, maintaining cohesive design systems, prioritizing accessibility, and mentoring junior team members.
Graphic Designer
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
Appdirect 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Comuna 1, Argentina
The role involves designing and updating various customer-facing materials such as sales presentations, one-pagers, and case studies, alongside creating marketing assets like email graphics, social media assets, and digital ads. The designer will also create and update landing pages and web page layouts using established design systems.
Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Propeller 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The role involves leading end-to-end design for early-stage product features and mobile experiences, shaping user flows and systems in collaboration with engineering and product teams. Responsibilities also include conducting independent user research to drive product strategy and maintaining consistency within the design system.
UX Designer II
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Elsevier 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The UX Designer II will partner closely with product, research, and engineering in cross-functional teams to deliver user-centered solutions to complex challenges, owning the design work end-to-end within their team. Key duties include defining roadmaps, supporting user research, ideating and prototyping solutions, and ensuring designs meet user needs while aligning with the design system.
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.