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Senior Product Designer - Mercari Marketplace
🇯🇵 Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Mercari, Inc. 🇯🇵 Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Lead end-to-end user experience design for buyers in the Japanese marketplace, from problem framing to execution and launch. Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to define experience strategies and evolve shared design systems.
Product Designer
🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
Cybereason 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
The Product Designer will lead the UX and visual layout for complex security operations workflows, including alert triage and incident timelines. They will also design AI-driven interfaces and maintain a component-driven Figma design system while collaborating with Product and Engineering teams.
Design Manager - Mid Level
🇯🇵 Japan
Gensler 🇯🇵 Japan
The Design Manager is responsible for managing all phases of interior and architectural design projects, ensuring client satisfaction, quality control, and financial performance. They act as the primary liaison between the client and the cross-functional team while overseeing project lifecycles from bidding to close-out.
Brand / Environmental Graphic Designer
🇯🇵 Japan
Gensler 🇯🇵 Japan
Lead the development of brand and environmental graphic design projects, including wayfinding and brand activation, while managing designers to ensure creative excellence. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality client presentations and production deliverables.
Senior Design Manager, Product Design
🇯🇵 Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Vf Corporation 🇯🇵 Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Responsible for ensuring product concepts and art direction align with brand strategy to create innovative and commercially viable apparel for Japan, Asia, and global markets. The role involves overseeing the creative process from 2D and 3D digital design to retail execution while collaborating with merchandising and development teams.
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Product Designer / プロダクトデザイナー
🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
Paypay Securities 🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
Collaborate with product managers and engineers to design and improve UI/UX for native apps, mini-apps, and PC trading sites. Conduct user research and numerical analysis to deliver new securities product experiences.
UX Designer
🇯🇵 Japan
Scheme Verge, Inc. 🇯🇵 Japan
The UX Designer will lead the visual and functional design of web and mobile applications, collaborating with engineers and product owners. Key tasks include grooming user stories, conducting field research, and implementing user evaluation strategies.
Product Designer (UI/UX) (Japan)
🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
Bjak 🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
Design end-to-end product experiences for financial services, transforming requirements into user flows, wireframes, and polished interfaces. Collaborate with engineers and product managers to build scalable design systems and improve usability through data-driven iterations.
Mobile UI Designer (Japan)
🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
Bjak 🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
Create elegant and intuitive mobile interfaces for an AI Neobank and financial products across iOS and Android. Build and maintain mobile design systems while collaborating with engineers to ensure pixel-perfect implementation.
UI Designer - AI Neobank App (Japan)
🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
Bjak 🇯🇵 Tōkyō, 1, Marunouchi 1, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
Design polished, user-centric interfaces for mobile and web financial products, transforming requirements into high-fidelity UI and prototypes. Maintain the company's design system and collaborate with engineers to ensure pixel-perfect implementation across various financial services.
Frontend Engineer & UI Designer (Developer Tooling)
🇯🇵 Japan
Searchapi 🇯🇵 Japan
Design and ship features from Figma to production code, including dashboards and API playgrounds. Own the front end, ensuring a coherent and beautiful user experience while managing the component system.
How design hiring is changing in 2026
Design hiring has changed. Craft alone is no longer enough. Top teams now expect designers to ship live code, work alongside AI tools, and prototype fast.
Whether you are a Product Designer shipping features or a Graphic Designer guiding AI-generated visuals, the strongest roles reward deep craft and tool fluency together.
DesignJobs lists roles from companies leading the shift, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Vercel, and Linear. Spend less time searching, more time on the work.
Across all roles, the biggest differentiator is technical literacy. For Product Designers, this means "vibe coding" and functional prototyping. For Brand Designers, it's managing generative identity systems. The ability to leverage AI to move faster while maintaining human-centered quality is what separates top candidates today.
The design world is increasingly distributed, though many AI leaders now favor hybrid hubs. While companies like Figma, Notion, and Anthropic often prioritize collaboration in SF or London, we also feature truly remote-first teams like PostHog and Supabase. Use our "Remote Only" toggle on the main jobs page to filter for positions that allow you to work from anywhere.
While not a strict requirement for every role, it is becoming the standard for Design Engineering and high-growth Product roles. Being able to express design intent through code allows you to iterate at the speed of thought. We recommend designers bridge the gap using tools like Cursor, v0, and Replit to stay competitive.
Our AI Job Matcher analyzes your specific skill set, portfolio style, and career goals to surface roles you might miss with a traditional keyword search. It is designed to understand the nuance of your "design vibe" and match it with the culture of hiring teams at companies like Google and Perplexity.
Absolutely. In 2026, we are moving beyond "chatbots" to autonomous agents. Agentic UX involves designing systems that take action on behalf of the user. Your portfolio should demonstrate how you handle agentic trust, error states in autonomous flows, and "human-in-the-loop" verification points.
Yes! We feature a wide range of entry-level and junior design jobs across all categories. While the market is competitive, companies are actively seeking early-career designers who demonstrate technical agency and a willingness to master AI-assisted workflows.
We prioritize listings with transparent salary data. In 2026, compensation for roles like Design Engineering has seen significant growth due to the scarcity of hybrid "design-dev" talent. For deeper insights, check out our 2026 Design Salary Guide.
In 2026, the term Product Orchestrator refers to senior designers who direct AI-integrated systems rather than handcrafting every screen. While a Senior Product Designer focuses on the craft and technical agency, an Orchestrator focuses on cross-functional strategy, data logic, and aligning generative outcomes with business ROI.
Yes. High-growth companies like OpenAI look for portfolios that prove you can design for safety. This means showing how users can edit, override, or approve AI-generated outputs, ensuring the human remains the final decision-maker in the workflow.