Director, Product Design (AI)

Location: Foster City, California, United States; hybrid with an in-office requirement on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Base salary: $275,000–$350,000 per year, plus equity.

Company

An agentic software creation platform that enables people to build applications using natural language and aims to make software development more accessible.

What you will do

• Lead the day-to-day operations of the Product Design organization, ensuring work is aligned, prioritized, and delivered to a high standard.
• Manage, mentor, develop, recruit, hire, and onboard product designers.
• Shape and elevate the customer journey while contributing hands-on through whiteboarding, design exploration, work-in-progress reviews, and product problem-solving.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering on technically sophisticated products and cross-functional development.
• Provide context, trade-offs, and insights for high-impact product decisions and design critique.
• Improve design practices, workflows, quality, and team culture while preserving speed and flexibility.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading product design teams within high-growth technology companies.
• Proven ability to balance people leadership with meaningful hands-on product design contribution.
• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft, interaction design, product thinking, and systems thinking.
• Experience partnering closely with Product and Engineering to deliver technically sophisticated products.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional product development in fast-moving environments.
• Exceptional communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong design taste, sound judgment, and a bias toward action.
• Experience simplifying complex technical products into elegant, approachable user experiences.

Nice to have

• Experience designing developer tools, technical products, or software creation platforms.
• Experience building AI-powered products or AI-native workflows.
• Coding experience or strong technical curiosity.
• Experience growing design teams in startup or scale-up environments.
• Active use of AI throughout the design process.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employee role with competitive salary and equity.
• Health, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
• 401(k) program with a 4% match for US employees.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave; flexible time off and holidays.
• Autonomous work environment, monthly wellness stipend, commuter benefits, office setup reimbursement, office amenities, and quarterly team gatherings.