Senior Director, Product Design

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior Director, Product Design in United States.

This is a high-impact leadership role shaping how design evolves in the era of AI-powered products and intelligent experiences. You will redefine what great design means in a world where human expertise and AI capabilities must seamlessly combine to deliver trusted, scalable, and emotionally resonant user experiences. Operating at the intersection of product, engineering, and machine learning, you will elevate design craft while building systems that accelerate execution at scale. This role blends creative direction, organizational leadership, and systems thinking to modernize the design function. You will guide a large, high-performing team and establish new standards for design quality, speed, and consistency. It is an opportunity to fundamentally reshape how experiences are conceived, built, and delivered in an AI-native environment.

Accountabilities

• Lead the transformation of the design organization into an AI-native practice, defining how human judgment and AI capabilities complement each other across the product lifecycle
• Establish and uphold a high bar for design quality, ensuring experiences are coherent, trustworthy, and emotionally engaging at scale
• Build and evolve an AI-enabled design system, including reusable components, patterns, and workflows that extend design quality beyond the design team
• Manage, mentor, and scale a multidisciplinary design organization, elevating team capability, AI fluency, and execution standards
• Drive experience strategy in partnership with Product, Engineering, Content, and ML teams to ensure cohesive, outcome-driven solutions
• Embed user research and behavioral insights into design decision-making through continuous feedback loops and data-driven discovery
• Define and operationalize system-level design practices that increase velocity without compromising quality or usability
  
  

Requirements

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• 10+ years of experience in product design, experience design, or design leadership roles within complex digital products
• Proven track record of leading and scaling high-performing design teams in fast-paced environments
• Strong portfolio demonstrating elevated design craft, systems thinking, and user-centered experience design
• Experience building and scaling design systems across multiple products or platforms
• Deep collaboration experience with Product and Engineering teams to deliver impactful user-facing experiences
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools or workflows into design processes to improve speed, insight, or consistency
• Strong strategic thinking, with the ability to balance human-centered design principles with AI-driven opportunities
• Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional influence skills
  
  

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with location-based pay transparency provided during the application process
• Fully remote work within eligible U.S. states

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• Collaborative, innovation-driven environment focused on experimentation and continuous learning
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• Exposure to cutting-edge AI technologies and next-generation product experiences
  
  

How Jobgether Works

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

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