Director, Product Design
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JobgetherProduct Design
Based in the United StatesFull-TimeDirector
SalaryBase salary of $175,000–$210,000, plus a 10% annual bonus and eligibility for equity.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 12+ years of experience
- Required Skills
- Adobe Creative SuiteAgileFigmaJiraProduct designConfluence
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience successfully designing and shipping digital products and features end-to-end.
- 5+ years of direct experience managing and leading product design teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong expertise in user experience, interaction design, and information architecture across responsive web and mobile platforms.
- Advanced proficiency with modern design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, combined with practical fluency in AI-native tools such as Figma AI, Claude, ChatGPT, or similar platforms.
- Demonstrated success using AI tools and automation to improve design team efficiency, output quality, research, prototyping, or product development.
- Experience working in Agile product development environments and collaborating through tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to connect design decisions to measurable customer and business outcomes.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with confidence communicating complex design decisions and AI-related trade-offs to executive and C-suite audiences.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively across Product, Engineering, Research, and other business functions.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with strong ownership, resilience, and comfort operating in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating either broad cross-functional design expertise or exceptional depth in a specialized area.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive design strategy for key product domains, ensuring experiences are cohesive, intuitive, scalable, and aligned with business and customer goals.
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Business Operations, and executive leaders to establish product priorities, roadmaps, and strategic direction.
- Lead and mentor product design teams, developing design leaders and helping designers strengthen their craft, product thinking, and fluency with AI-enabled tools.
- Champion AI-assisted design and prototyping practices, using emerging tools to increase design velocity, explore ideas rapidly, and improve the quality of product decisions.
- Personally prototype and explore concepts, particularly through AI-assisted workflows, while setting a strong standard for design craft and execution.
- Ensure effective design practices from early discovery and concept development through launch, iteration, and optimization.
- Use customer research, product data, analytics, and AI-assisted research synthesis to establish informed points of view and guide product direction.
- Drive cohesive experiences across product areas, including consistent interaction patterns and approaches for AI-powered and agentic functionality.
- Lead strategic initiatives that improve design processes, workflows, collaboration, and execution standards across the broader organization.
- Communicate design rationale, trade-offs, opportunities, and recommendations effectively with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Help shape how the design organization evolves as AI changes product development, team structures, workflows, and the role of designers.
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