VP, User Experience (AI)

Location: Remote position; candidates may be located in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver, or Vancouver, Washington. Travel is required 1–2 times per quarter.

OTE: $220,000–$275,000 USD, including base salary and bonus.

Company

hirify.global is an AI-powered influencer marketing platform that combines creator relationships, proprietary data, and expert guidance to help brands plan and execute measurable campaigns.

What you will do

• Lead UX across hirify.global Influence, hirify.global Social, and Mavely, ensuring cohesive, intuitive, and scalable product experiences.
• Build and lead a team of 5–6 UX designers while partnering with product management and a 100+ person engineering organization.
• Drive zero-to-one product bets through rapid, high-fidelity browser prototypes and direct collaboration with product and engineering.
• Develop AI-native UX workflows, including human-in-the-loop patterns, AI trust mechanisms, agentic failure states, and prompt-driven prototypes.
• Establish shared design systems, design tokens, AI-assisted design-to-code pipelines, and scalable front-end UX standards.
• Set the quality bar for interaction design, visual polish, accessibility, usability, research, and portfolio-wide consistency.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in product design or UX, including 8+ years leading and growing design teams.
• Experience designing coherent experiences across multiple products or teams and scaling design systems or shared UX standards.
• Strong technical fluency and experience partnering with engineering on platform architecture, APIs, data models, front-end frameworks, and implementation trade-offs.
• Demonstrated proficiency with AI-assisted design, prototyping, and development tools, including the ability to create working or near-working experiences.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills, with experience presenting design direction to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring designers at different seniority levels while balancing hands-on craft with strategic portfolio thinking.

Nice to have

• Experience with B2B SaaS, marketplace, or platform products.
• Experience in influencer marketing, the creator economy, or social and commerce products.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with a distributed design team and quarterly travel.
• Permanent team members are eligible for various benefits plans.
• Inclusion-first culture with an emphasis on culture add, accessibility, and equitable hiring, pay, and promotion practices.
• Work environment centered on ownership, rigor, ambition, curiosity, and accountability without ego.
• Market-based, data-driven compensation reviews conducted twice per year.