Sr. Director, Product Design
Seattle, WAHybrid10+ YOE
Summary
Lead and manage a team of product designers to deliver world-class UX for enterprise software. Drive design vision, AI-enabled processes, and cross-functional collaboration with product and engineering.
About the role
What You'll Do
- Manage a team of talented designers to deliver strong work on tight schedules
- Work across multiple projects at once
- Identify and prioritize usage scenarios through customer research, competitive analysis, and current user behavior
- Analyze insights across a wide range of inputs from data analytics to customer interviews
- Create wireframes, storyboards, and screen flows for the organization and executive reviews
- Design and drive functional prototypes to prove out interaction models
- Partner with engineering and product management to drive shared vision and execution of product plans
- Deliver a UX vision, along with a plan for evolutionary, iterative updates, that actualize the larger vision over time
- Drive AI Design Research and Development within the team, evolving the Design Process via the use of AI tools and processes
Your Background
- Degree in human-computer interaction, interaction design, visual design, or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years of experience designing world-class experiences at scale
- 5+ years experience managing world-class design teams, multiple geographies a plus
- Expert knowledge of user-centered design principles
- Demonstrable fluency with Figma, or equivalent design tool
- Solid portfolio of work spanning multiple at-scale projects
- Experience with UX for enterprise software products, channels, or marketplaces
- Experience or interest in creating style guides, pattern libraries, and other design solutions that drive design across large organizations
- Experience working with agile development teams (agile/scrum/kanban)
- Experience using the latest AI tools to deliver high-quality, end-to-end user scenarios at scale
- Experience in leading the transformation of Design teams towards Agentic Design processes
- Willingness to roll up the sleeves and lead by example when required
- Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Excellent collaborative skills
Skills
FigmaUser-centered designWireframingPrototypingAgileScrumKanbanAI design toolsEnterprise UXDesign systems