Top Design Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Develop production-ready character concepts from exploration through final designs, translating ambiguous briefs into visual solutions aligned with narrative, gameplay, and art direction. Create sketches, turnarounds, style guides, and supporting documentation; collaborate with art and cross-functional teams to support 3D production; mentor artists; improve workflows; and independently manage complex assignments and priorities.

Create production-ready 3D characters, creatures, and weapons from high-resolution sculpts through modeling, topology, UVs, baking, texturing, materials, and Unreal Engine integration. Own complex assignments, establish character art standards, solve visual and technical challenges, mentor artists, improve workflows, and oversee external vendor deliverables. Collaborate across art, animation, gameplay, narrative, and other disciplines to ensure assets meet artistic and technical requirements.

Lead mixed-method UX research for Microsoft AI-powered products, including exploratory, generative, quantitative, and evaluative studies. Drive product strategy through rigorous research, collaborate cross-functionally, influence senior stakeholders, identify new research opportunities, and elevate the team’s UX research practice. Apply AI-native workflows, statistical analysis, interviews, surveys, user evaluations, and insight synthesis to improve customer experiences.

Build and scale design systems, templates, components, and visual asset libraries using Figma and AI-powered workflows. Support art directors and interactive designers through rapid prototyping, asset generation, animation, and workflow automation. Maintain brand consistency, technical precision, accessibility, and responsive design standards across marketing deliverables. The role requires enterprise design systems experience, advanced Figma expertise, generative design tool knowledge, systemic thinking, collaboration, and a portfolio demonstrating asset generation and organized Figma files.

Own brand and motion design from concept through delivery across product launches, campaigns, education, events, and digital channels. Develop brand systems, motion guidelines, templates, and workflows that maintain consistency and improve production speed. Direct and evaluate AI-generated creative work, establish quality standards and guardrails, and collaborate with creative, marketing, product, and growth partners. The role requires strong visual craft, motion expertise, and the ability to balance strategic brand work with rapid execution.

User Research Interns will support UX research projects for Coinbase products, including Coinbase Cloud and developer tools. Responsibilities include planning and conducting research, applying usability testing and research principles, preparing reports with actionable product recommendations, and collaborating with researchers, designers, and product managers. Candidates should be pursuing a research-related degree or equivalent experience, understand UX research methods, provide a prior research report, and have basic cryptocurrency knowledge.

Leads the vision, strategy, and implementation of AI integration across Capital One’s Experience Design organization. Owns roadmaps for AI tooling, AI-enabled design processes, and talent upskilling; partners with executive leaders across Product, Engineering, and Design to drive adoption and measurable business value. Elevates product, service, and content design practices, oversees design systems and tools, influences product direction, and guides complex initiatives from strategy through delivery. Acts as a player-coach and develops design talent across a highly matrixed organization.

Design end-to-end product experiences for Notion: craft UX and pixel-perfect UI, partner with engineers and cross-functional teams, prioritize based on user insight and business needs, evolve the design system, and help tell product stories across channels.

Design and deliver end-to-end user experiences for Home Loan products: define vision and strategy, create maps/flows/prototypes, collaborate with PMs, engineers, and researchers, iterate from discovery through delivery, and scale design systems and best practices across teams.

Lead product design across spending, savings, and investing experiences. Set the design vision and quality bar, guide a team of product designers, and partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Content Design, Data, and Brand to create cohesive, intuitive financial products. Use research, customer insights, data, and experimentation to shape decisions, improve design systems and critique culture, and translate strategy into polished member experiences.

Own end-to-end commercial product design across plan selection, cart, checkout, cross-sell, pricing, and monetization experiences. Translate pricing and packaging strategies into scalable UX systems, partner with product, engineering, revenue systems, platform, and data science teams, and connect discovery through conversion. Establish design standards across Commercial Growth while mentoring designers and influencing experimentation, targeting, and cross-functional product direction.