Product design is more than just pretty aesthetics. Often, it’s what decides the success of a product from a first impression through every facet of the user experience. It’s the difference between creating something people actually want to use and a feature they abandon before it ever gets to prove its value. One of the most successful consumer products, the iPhone, defined a generation when it popularized the full, touch-screen interface, similar to how AirBnB used good design to overcome the stranger danger bias in peer-to-peer rentals that opened an entirely new travel category.
Despite a challenging job market, design roles are still in high demand. In the United States, product designers make an average salary of $93,000 nationwide, with a seven percent increase in job growth over the next decade. The following companies are a case in point, frequently hiring creatives who can think beyond screens, turning complicated technology into user-friendly products that feel intuitive at first click.
Top Companies Hiring Product Designers
- Apple
- Meta
- BYD
- Microsoft
- Canva
Top Companies Hiring Product Designers
Headquarters: Shenzhen, China
Founded: 1995
Company size: 860k+ employees
Industry: Automotive, Electric Vehicles and Manufacturing
BYD’s product design specializes in in-vehicle experiences, where software, hardware and physical space come together inside of electric vehicles. Designers here focus on human-machine interfaces, from dashboard layouts to touch interactions that control core driving functions. These roles typically look for candidates with experience in automotive UX, embedded systems or designing for real-time environments where safety and usability are tightly linked.
Headquarters: Cupertino, California
Founded: 1976
Company size: 160,000+ employees
Industry: Consumer Technology
Apple’s minimalist design has defined what almost all modern tech looks and feels like. Led by former Chief Design Officer Jony Ive, the company is responsible for iconic drops like iMac’s translucent, pop-of-color era and the iPod’s click wheel. Then came the iPhone, which introduced the full-screen design that stands as the standard nearly two decades later. Current product designer roles at Apple call for a strong storytelling, a sharp eye for visual polish and involve prototyping end-to-end experiences across platforms while collaborating with engineering teams through a product’s full lifecycle.
Headquarters: Los Angeles, California and Singapore
Founded: 2016
Company size: 38k+ employees
Industry: Social Media and Entertainment
TikTok’s product design is built around high-speed iteration. Any small interface change can drastically affect behavior across the social media app’s billions of global users. Designers at TikTok focus heavily on creator tools, recommendation systems and commerce features that shape how content is made and monetized. Because of this, open roles call for designers who can prototype creator and content-consumption workflows, then refine those designs through user research, data analysis and A/B testing.
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Founded: 2008
Company size: 5k - 10k employees
Industry: Hospitality
Airbnb treats product design as a full experience layer. It extends beyond the app into how people book, check in and navigate a stay in the real world. Designers here often work on end-to-end journeys rather than isolated screens, connecting digital touchpoints to interactions in the physical world. Hiring leans toward candidates who can think in systems, map complex user flows in tools like Figma and design for trust, logistics and human behavior all at once.
Headquarters: Seattle, Washington
Founded: 1994
Company size: 1.5m+ employees
Industry: E-Commerce and Logistics
Amazon runs the largest online retailer in the world as well as its Amazon Web Services platform, which holds 30 percent of the global cloud market. Designers touch everything from Prime Video and Alexa to AWS and logistics tools, building for shoppers, sellers, developers and operations teams at massive scale. Current listings call for solid interaction and visual design skills, familiarity with Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud, a portfolio of shipped product work and the ability to prototype across desktop, mobile and device-based experiences.
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1845
Company size: 470k+ employees
Industry: Professional Services and Tech Consulting
Deloitte heads digital transformation projects for some of the world’s largest enterprises. Naturally, its in-house team has to model the same standard it sells to clients. The work is both external and internal, shaping digital products for major organizations while also refining Deloitte’s own tools, systems and client-facing experiences. Roles typically look for candidates who can lead design strategy while producing concrete product artifacts, including user flows, wireframes, journey maps, mockups and prototypes.
Headquarters: Sydney, Australia
Founded: 2013
Company size: 5k+ employees
Industry: Design Software
Canva has democratized product design through its ready-made templates and drag-and-drop editing experience, now featuring AI-assistance. Its tools lower the barrier to entry to product design itself, unlocking access to digitally creating professional-grade products to a wide audience. Roles favor product designers who can combine aesthetics and systems thinking in order to make creative workflows feel fast and approachable for millions of non-designers.
Headquarters: Los Gatos, California
Founded: 1997
Company size: 14k+ employees
Industry: Media Streaming
Product designers at Netflix, the world’s No. 1 streaming platform, determine how people discover content. From recommendation systems to playback experiences like the ‘skip intro’ option and stitching in a 10-second autoplay countdown between episodes, the work is deeply tied to human behavior, where even small design decisions influence what users click on and how long they stay. Hiring tends to focus on candidates who can make interactive design feel seamless whether users are watching from their phone, laptop or sitting in front of the TV.
Headquarters: Redmond, Washington
Founded: 1975
Company size: 220k+ employees
Industry: Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing
Billions of people and millions of companies rely on Microsoft products everyday. From Windows and Office to Teams, Azure and Copilot, its tools are deeply embedded in how people work, communicate and build software. Product designer roles here often focus on making AI-assisted workflows feel useful inside familiar platforms, with listings calling for systems thinking, prototyping skills, cross-functional collaboration and experience creating production-ready interfaces.
Headquarters: Menlo Park, California
Founded: 2004
Company size: 78k+ employees
Industry: Social Media and Artificial Intelligence
Meta’s design teams are focused on building entirely new interaction models for augmented reality, virtual reality and spatial computing through Reality Labs. That means designing beyond screens, where gestures, environments and presence all become part of the product. Open roles emphasize experience designing complex systems, comfort working in ambiguous 0 →1 environments and the ability to define interactions that don’t yet have established patterns.
