Director, UX Design (AI)

Location: Stamford, CT, United States; other location: Irving, TX. Hybrid work environment.

Base salary: $120,000–$167,000 per year, plus applicable bonus or incentive plan.

Company

hirify.global provides business and technology insights, analysis, and guidance to enterprise leaders and their teams.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a growing UX team supporting multiple products and customer experiences.
• Define and execute UX strategy while contributing hands-on to discovery, research, journey mapping, ideation, prototyping, testing, design, and design reviews.
• Set standards for UX quality, accessibility, collaboration, customer-centered decision-making, and delivery.
• Build an AI-focused, human-centered UX culture by identifying AI-enabled experiences and guiding prototypes, proofs of concept, and design experiments.
• Develop training and enablement programs, provide design critiques and actionable feedback, and mentor team members.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Business and Technology Insights, Brand, Marketing, and other business teams to translate customer needs into useful, feasible experiences.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in UX, product design, interaction design, design research, information architecture, or related fields, including 3+ years managing and developing UX or Product Design professionals.
• Success in a player-coach leadership role balancing hands-on UX execution, people management, and strategic leadership.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX work across discovery, research, interaction design, prototyping, testing, and delivery.
• Experience defining UX strategy and leading execution across multiple products or initiatives.
• Experience using AI tools or AI-enabled workflows for UX research, ideation, prototyping, experimentation, or product development.
• Experience leading teams through AI adoption, UX transformation, or development of AI-powered products and experiences, including turning emerging technology concepts into prototypes or validated product opportunities.
• Experience providing actionable feedback through design critiques, mentorship, and collaborative working sessions, including leading cross-functional and multi-geographic teams.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design, Design Thinking, research, interaction design, prototyping, usability, experience strategy, and accessible and inclusive experience design.
• Ability to balance customer needs, technical feasibility, business objectives, and strategic priorities, with excellent communication, storytelling, collaboration, coaching, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Design, UX/UI Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, along with a growth mindset and enthusiasm for learning, teaching, and applying emerging technologies responsibly.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, team-oriented, diverse, inclusive culture with geographically distributed teams.
• Competitive salary, annual bonus or role-based incentive plan, and 401(k) matching up to $7,200 per year.
• Paid time off, medical, dental and vision plans, parental leave, and Employee Assistance Program.
• Charity match program and opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount.
• Professional development and unlimited growth opportunities.
• Flexible hybrid environment combining virtual work with collaboration in an office community.