Director of Design

Location: Carlsbad, CA, United States; hybrid or office-based environment

Salary: $170,000–$195,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a media and entertainment business operating across political news, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment, with brands including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, and GolfPass.

What you will do

• Build and lead a Design Center of Excellence and own the design vision and standards across simulator software, companion apps, and web platforms.
• Establish a formal design review process from concept and architecture alignment through final UI/UX sign-off.
• Hire, mentor, and develop the existing design team, including leveling, career paths, and performance standards.
• Create and maintain a shared design system, pattern library, and style guide across software and web products.
• Plan design capacity across concurrent product lines and support evidence-based headcount and resourcing decisions.
• Partner with engineering, product, QA, platform, program management, release management, and senior leadership on requirements, roadmaps, planning, trade-offs, and readiness.

Requirements

• 10+ years of UX/UI or product design experience, including substantial experience leading and managing a design team.
• Experience building or significantly scaling a design organization or practice, including establishing standards, systems, and review processes where they did not previously exist.
• Experience partnering with engineering, product, and program leadership on cross-functional roadmaps and delivery, including presenting design strategy and trade-offs to senior or executive stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to allocate design capacity across multiple concurrent product lines and defend resourcing decisions with evidence.
• Experience establishing or maintaining an organizational design system, pattern library, or style guide.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating individual design craft and the outcomes of led teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to set and maintain execution standards.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• The role is primarily office-based with standard working hours and may require occasional after-hours support; frequent cross-department collaboration is required.

Nice to have

• Experience leading design for games, simulation, consumer hardware, or interactive entertainment products.
• Experience designing both consumer-facing apps and internal or administrative tooling.
• Experience running design across multiple product lines or brands with distinct visual identities under one shared design system.
• Experience designing data-dense, real-time, or performance-data interfaces for non-technical consumers.
• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence-based design review and PRD workflows.
• Interest or hands-on experience applying AI tools to prototyping, critique, or design operations.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid or office-based work depending on company needs, with work primarily performed in an office setting.
• Health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off may be included in the overall compensation package.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals with disabilities.
• Equal employment opportunity and fair, equitable compensation practices.

Hiring process

• External candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a hirify.global Media employee at one of the company’s locations before a hiring decision.
• Unsolicited assistance from search firms is not accepted without a valid written Statement of Work from the Talent Acquisition team.