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.

This leader drives design strategy from discovery through delivery, partnering closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders. As the first dedicated designer embedded in a team that has historically operated without a broader design bench, this role requires a highly self-directed practitioner who can independently establish standards, create momentum, and elevate the quality of the product experience. They bring a strong builder and owner mindset, taking accountability not only for design deliverables, but also for product quality, user outcomes, and the continued elevation of design craft within the team.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

AI Design Fluency

• 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.

Tools and Ways of Working

• Comfortable working in agile product delivery environments and using modern digital p…