Senior Vice President, Product Design

Job Description

The Senior Vice President, Product Design is a strategic design leader, builder, and owner responsible for shaping the experience vision and execution for a broad product area or complex feature set. This role combines deep product design expertise, systems thinking, strong cross‑functional leadership, and a high bar for craft to deliver user‑centered outcomes at scale.

• Drive the design strategy and vision for a broad product area or complex feature set, connecting user needs, business priorities, technical constraints, and platform opportunities.
• Lead end‑to‑end design work across discovery, concept development, prototyping, validation, and delivery.
• Serve as the primary design leader within the team, independently setting direction, creating structure, and establishing a high standard for design quality and execution.
• Elevate design craft through strong visual, interaction, and product design judgment, bringing rigor, polish, consistency, and clarity to the user experience.
• Demonstrate a builder mindset by creating scalable patterns, reusable approaches, and practical ways of working that improve product quality, speed, and consistency.
• Demonstrate an owner mindset by proactively identifying opportunities and risks, aligning stakeholders, driving decisions, and ensuring follow‑through from concept to shipped outcome.
• Lead cross‑functional workshops, design reviews, and working sessions to build alignment and move teams from ambiguity to clarity.
• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and key stakeholders to define priorities, shape roadmaps, and deliver cohesive experiences.
• Define design scope, milestones, priorities, and success measures for initiatives within their area, and contribute to effective planning and execution within agile delivery environments.
• Create high‑quality design artifacts and prototypes that support alignment, decision‑making, validation, and implementation.
• Work in modern product development workflows with engineering and product partners, including familiarity with Git‑based collaboration, repositories, versioned artifacts, and spec‑driven development practices.
• Contribute to modern handoff approaches by helping teams move from static documentation toward clearer, shared specifications, living artifacts, and tighter design‑engineering collaboration throughout delivery.
• Influence cross‑functional leadership to prioritize product excellence and invest in improvements that raise experience quality over time.
• Use qualitative and quantitative inputs, including research, analytics, experimentation, and stakeholder insight, to inform decisions and continuously improve solutions after launch.

• Demonstrate fluency in designing AI‑assisted and AI‑enabled experiences, including workflows that incorporate generation, automation, recommendations, and conversational interactions where appropriate.
• Understand how to design for trust, transparency, usability, and human oversight in AI‑enabled experiences, including fallback states, review patterns, and clear user control.
• Apply strong judgment to when AI should enhance a workflow and when more traditional interaction patterns are the better solution.
• Use AI‑enabled tools to accelerate design exploration, synthesis, prototyping, iteration, and workflow efficiency while maintaining high standards of craft and product judgment.
• Partner with product and engineering to shape practical, user‑centered AI opportunities that deliver meaningful value.
• Incorporate responsible design considerations such as accessibility, clarity, privacy, and bias awareness into AI‑enabled product experiences.

• Comfortable working in agile product delivery environments and using…