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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.
Graphic Designer, Senior
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Booz Allen Hamilton 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will create a wide range of impactful visual materials, including FINTEL, logos, publications, and presentations, ensuring compliance with Section 508 accessibility standards. This role requires leveraging design principles to maintain brand consistency while managing multiple assignments in a fast-paced environment.
Graphic Designer, Senior
🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
Booz Allen Hamilton 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will create a wide range of impactful visual materials, including FINTEL, logos, publications, and presentations, ensuring compliance with Section 508 accessibility standards. This role requires leveraging design principles to maintain brand consistency while managing multiple assignments in a deadline-driven environment.
Staff UX Researcher
Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Newfire Global Partners Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
The Staff UX Researcher will be the most senior research voice, responsible for shaping the research agenda, designing programs that translate user insight into product and business direction, and building scalable research frameworks across clients. Responsibilities include leading multi-phase research programs, synthesizing findings across studies, and serving as the primary user advocate in product planning and design critiques.
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Senior UX Designer
Remote (🇭🇷 City of Zagreb, Croatia)
Newfire Global Partners Remote (🇭🇷 City of Zagreb, Croatia)
The Senior UX Designer will lead design for complex enterprise healthcare applications, partnering with the UX Research team to conduct studies and translate findings into design direction. Responsibilities also include prototyping, contributing to design systems, navigating healthcare compliance, and building strong relationships with product, engineering, and client stakeholders.
Senior UI-UX-Designer (f/m/x)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Bonial International Gmbh 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead end-to-end design projects for the kaufDA app, driving product discovery and translating insights into high-quality, scalable design solutions. This role involves actively contributing to the design system and advocating for design excellence across all touchpoints.
Senior Product Designer
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
Santander 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
The Senior Product Designer will lead the design of digital experiences for banking products across web, mobile, and new channels, ensuring alignment with strategic business goals. This involves transforming customer insights and data into high-quality flows, wireframes, and prototypes while collaborating closely with product, technology, and business teams.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Armand Corporation 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Senior Graphic Designer will be responsible for designing, developing, and delivering static visual content such as fact sheets, reports, and social media assets, while also creating motion graphics and simple animations to support public-facing communication. This role involves leading creative concepting, managing design projects from idea through production, and ensuring all outputs adhere to brand guidelines and quality standards.
Senior UX Designer
🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
Vodafone 🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
The role involves leading the design of high-quality user experiences for Vodafone’s global B2B sites and local market business platforms by creating user-centric concepts, interaction specifications, and detailed wireframes. Responsibilities also include driving design innovation, maintaining UX standards, assessing designs against KPIs, and collaborating with product and engineering teams for high-quality delivery.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Mangomint Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior Product Designer will contribute to product strategy and act as a senior design partner in product decisions, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints. Responsibilities include identifying and validating problems, designing high-quality UI, refining UX copy, and owning/evolving the design system.
Senior Product Designer, ROS
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
Roblox 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end UX for core productivity and collaboration surfaces within the Roblox Operating System (ROS) team, aiming to unify the internal ecosystem and reduce coordination overhead. This role involves deep collaboration with product and engineering to translate complex technical needs into elegant, self-service tools, often involving AI-assisted workflows.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Mochi Health 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will distill insights from user needs to drive clear product directions and design/prototype interfaces for current and future products. They will shape the patient experience by defining key interactions while collaborating closely with the engineering team to deliver real value.
Senior/Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Brightline 🇺🇸 United States of America
The Senior/Staff Product Designer will drive user understanding and craft member and provider product experiences, owning high-complexity, end-to-end design initiatives that impact coaches, clinicians, and families. Key duties include defining strategic impact, deepening user understanding through feedback, architecting product vision collaboratively, crafting well-loved designs, and establishing measurable design criteria.
Senior UI/UX Designer
🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Yrefy Llc 🇺🇸 Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
The specialist will collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to design intuitive, scalable, and user-centered digital products throughout the entire product lifecycle, from discovery to delivery and iteration. Key duties include conducting user research, creating prototypes, maintaining the design system, and ensuring designs meet accessibility and compliance standards.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lumos Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
This role involves owning and championing an entire product area, focusing on rapidly shipping value to customers by tackling complex user problems, especially specializing in User Access Reviews (UAR) and Lumos's AI-powered access review experience. Responsibilities also include championing customer obsession through user research and shaping the long-term product vision in collaboration with stakeholders.
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.