Director, Product Design
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JobgetherDeveloper tools, AI software
Based in the United States, working hours that overlap U.S. and European time zonesFull-TimeDirector
SalaryAnnual base salary range of $206,500–$295,000; Monthly technology allowance equivalent to US$100 net
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- TypeScriptProduct designReactPrototyping
Requirements
- Have experience leading a product design team of comparable size through organizational or product changes.
- Have a track record of developing designers from mid-level through senior and staff positions.
- Bring extensive digital product design experience, balancing strategic direction, team leadership, and hands-on contribution.
- Demonstrate strong design craft across interaction flows, prototypes, interface details, component states, motion, and copy.
- Provide a portfolio showcasing product design work from the past year and demonstrating hands-on involvement and design judgment.
- Have experience working with design engineers, software engineers, and technical leadership on decisions that affect user experience.
- Show the ability to make technically sophisticated systems clear, intuitive, and accessible.
- Use AI tools in daily design work and demonstrate how they support productivity, exploration, and execution while recognizing when human intervention is needed.
- Bring coaching, mentoring, and feedback skills to develop a high-performing design team.
- Have experience collaborating with product management, engineering, user experience research, and design systems teams.
- Preferred: experience leading design for AI-powered products or autonomous agent experiences, including interfaces beyond traditional graphical user interfaces.
- Preferred: familiarity with developer-led adoption and complex enterprise customer needs.
- Preferred: ability to prototype using front-end technologies such as React or TypeScript.
- Be able to work effectively in a globally distributed, remote-first environment, with working hours overlapping U.S. and European time zones.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop the product design team.
- Set and maintain design quality standards across the product portfolio, and lead design critiques.
- Contribute hands-on to concepts, prototypes, interaction design, interface details, motion, and product copy.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to align design decisions with technical constraints, user needs, business objectives, and delivery priorities.
- Translate complex developer workflows, infrastructure, and technical systems into intuitive experiences across graphical and command-line interfaces.
- Shape design direction for existing and emerging products across the portfolio.
- Define how AI tools are incorporated into design workflows while maintaining human oversight and judgment.
- Work with design engineers and design system teams to improve shared components, workflows, and consistency.
- Communicate design perspectives to product and engineering leaders and incorporate feedback.
- Evaluate design processes, team practices, and emerging technologies to improve collaboration and product quality.
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