Director UX​/UI

UI & UX Leader For Cad Portfolio

PTC is looking for a UI & UX leader for our CAD portfolio to help redefine how the world's most advanced engineering tools feel, flow, and delight the people who use them every day. In this role, you'll lead the user experience strategy for Creo, Creo+, and related CAD workflows, shaping how engineers design, simulate, manufacture, and collaborate s is a rare opportunity to influence products that sit at the heart of global manufacturing—used by some of the world's most innovative companies to bring complex products to life.

What You'll Do

Own the UX vision for CAD at PTC

You'll define and champion a clear, modern UX strategy that balances power and precision with usability and elegance. Your work will directly shape the day-to-day experience of professional engineers working on some of the most complex designs in the world.

Lead and inspire a world-class UX team

You'll build, mentor, and lead a team of designers and researchers who are motivated by solving deeply technical problems. You'll set a high bar for craft, curiosity, and customer empathy—while creating an environment where designers can do the best work of their careers.

Partner deeply with Product and Engineering

You'll work side by side with Product Management and Engineering leaders to ensure UX is embedded in strategy, roadmaps, and technical decisions—not treated as an afterthought. You'll help teams navigate trade-offs between performance, capability, and experience.

Design for real engineers, at real scale

You'll ensure our experiences are grounded in how customers actually work—through direct user research, usability testing, and ongoing engagement with engineers. You'll help make expert workflows faster, clearer, and more intuitive, while lowering the barrier to entry for new users.

Drive consistency without slowing innovation

You'll own and evolve the CAD design system, interaction standards, and experience principles—ensuring cohesion across products while still enabling teams to innovate quickly.

Influence at the highest levels

You'll clearly communicate UX strategy, insights, and outcomes to senior leadership. You'll represent UX as a strategic driver of customer satisfaction, adoption, and competitive differentiation—internally and externally.

What We're Looking For

Required Experience

• 10+ years of experience in UX design, with meaningful leadership responsibility
• Proven success leading UX for complex, technical software (CAD, PLM, engineering tools, or similar)
• Deep understanding of designing for expert users and performance-sensitive applications
• Strong ability to influence product and engineering partners at senior levels

Nice to Have

• Experience with CAD, PLM, simulation, or manufacturing software
• Background or strong exposure to engineering, industrial design, or human factors
• Experience with desktop applications and hybrid desktop/cloud environments
• Interest or experience in AI-assisted workflows and design automation

Why Join PTC?

• Real impact:
  Your work will influence how thousands of engineers design products that shape the physical world.
• Meaningful complexity:
  If you love solving hard UX problems, this is as deep and rewarding as it gets.
• Strategic seat at the table: UX is a core priority at PTC, with visibility and influence at the highest levels.
• Modern transformation:
  Help evolve legendary CAD products into the next generation of cloud- and AI-enabled experiences.

Life at PTC is about more than working with today's most cutting-edge technologies to transform the physical world. It's about showing up as you are and working alongside some of today's most talented industry leaders to transform the world around you.

If you share our passion for problem-solving through innovation, you'll likely become just as passionate about the PTC experience as we are. Are you ready to explore your next career move with us?

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