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title: 'Design Jobs'
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# Design Jobs

> Shape how the product looks, feels, and flows.

- **Open roles:** 2,397
- **Typical salary:** $110K–$180K (US median base, mid–senior)
- **Top skills:** Prototyping, UX research, Design systems
- **Common tools:** Figma, Framer, Webflow
- **Page:** https://feeny.ai/jobs/design

## Design specializations

- [Product Design](https://feeny.ai/jobs/design/product-design) — 1,299 open roles
- [Art / Creative Direction](https://feeny.ai/jobs/design/creative-direction) — 268 open roles
- [Graphic Design](https://feeny.ai/jobs/design/graphic-design) — 225 open roles
- [Brand Design](https://feeny.ai/jobs/design/brand-design) — 153 open roles
- [UX Design](https://feeny.ai/jobs/design/ux-design) — 147 open roles
- [Motion & 3D](https://feeny.ai/jobs/design/motion-design) — 104 open roles
- [UI Design](https://feeny.ai/jobs/design/ui-design) — 82 open roles
- [UX Research](https://feeny.ai/jobs/design/ux-research) — 65 open roles
- [Design Systems](https://feeny.ai/jobs/design/design-systems) — 59 open roles
- [Growth Design](https://feeny.ai/jobs/design/growth-design) — 24 open roles
- [UX Writing](https://feeny.ai/jobs/design/ux-writing) — 21 open roles
- [Illustration](https://feeny.ai/jobs/design/illustration) — 10 open roles

## Design career path

**Where everyone starts**

- Junior Designer — $75–$110K · 1 open
- Product Designer — $110–$160K · 1,140 open
- Senior Designer — $150–$210K · 374 open

**Individual contributor track**

- Staff Designer — $190–$270K · 179 open
- Principal Designer — $250–$350K · 0 open

**Management track**

- Design Manager — $180–$260K · 25 open
- Director of Design — $240–$340K · 5 open
- VP / Head of Design — $320–$480K · 0 open

## Top companies hiring design roles

- [VML](https://feeny.ai/companies/vml) — 72 open roles
- [Glance](https://feeny.ai/companies/glance) — 8 open roles
- [AKQA](https://feeny.ai/companies/akqa) — 8 open roles
- [Highwire ](https://feeny.ai/companies/highwire) — 13 open roles
- [VML/WPPEnterprise Solutions ](https://feeny.ai/companies/vml-wppenterprise-solutions) — 12 open roles
- [Brandtech+ ](https://feeny.ai/companies/brandtech) — 9 open roles
- [INFUSE](https://feeny.ai/companies/infuse) — 29 open roles
- [Tide](https://feeny.ai/companies/tide) — 13 open roles
- [Ogilvy](https://feeny.ai/companies/ogilvy) — 16 open roles
- [Monks](https://feeny.ai/companies/monks) — 22 open roles
- [DEPT®](https://feeny.ai/companies/dept) — 19 open roles
- [SKELAR](https://feeny.ai/companies/skelar) — 12 open roles

## Design jobs: common questions

### What does a product designer do?

A product designer figures out how a product should work and look, then makes it real. That runs from talking to users and sketching flows to high-fidelity screens and the handoff to engineering. Some designers lean toward research and interaction, others toward visual craft and brand, but the job is always making something people find easy and worth using.

### How do I become a product designer?

A strong portfolio is the way in. Companies hire on the work you can show, so a few real projects that walk through your thinking matter more than a design degree. Many designers come from adjacent fields like graphic design, front-end development, or research. Bootcamps and self-study both work if the portfolio is good.

### What is the design career path?

Most designers go junior to product designer to senior, owning bigger flows and raising the bar for the work around them. Above senior the path splits: you can stay an individual contributor as a Staff or Principal Designer taking on the hardest problems, or move into leadership as a Design Manager, Director, and Head of Design.

### Which skills and tools should a designer learn?

The craft skills are interaction design, visual design, and prototyping, plus the research to know you are solving the right problem. Design systems and accessibility separate senior designers from junior ones. Figma is the default tool almost everywhere, with Framer for prototyping and the Adobe apps for brand and motion work.

### Do you need a degree to be a designer?

No. Many working designers are self-taught or came through a bootcamp, and a portfolio outweighs a degree in almost every hiring process. A design or HCI degree can help you learn the fundamentals faster, but the bar at hiring time is the quality of the work you show, not the credential.

### How much do designers make?

Pay ranges by level, location, and company. In the US a mid-level product designer commonly lands in the range shown on this page, Staff and Principal designers go higher, and design leadership adds equity on top of base at larger companies. The salary bands here are illustrative; the open roles listed are real postings.

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