Director, Product Design

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director, Product Design based in United States.

You will join a world-class design organization focused on shaping the future of multi-product experiences at scale. In this role, you will define and lead the vision for next-generation design systems and product experience infrastructure that power consistent, high-quality user experiences across a complex ecosystem of products. You will operate at the intersection of strategy, systems thinking, and hands-on product design leadership, ensuring that design decisions translate into scalable, reusable patterns. This role requires close collaboration with product, engineering, research, and brand teams to align on horizontal opportunities that improve coherence and accelerate delivery. You will also help evolve how product experiences are built by transforming design systems into a proactive platform for innovation rather than a reactive toolkit. In addition, you will lead and grow a multidisciplinary team responsible for defining standards, patterns, and design primitives used across the organization. This is a high-impact leadership role shaping how products are designed, built, and scaled for the future.

• Define and lead the vision for next-generation design systems, evolving them into a full product experience platform including patterns, primitives, standards, and shared logic.
• Drive the evolution of reusable interaction patterns across key product surfaces such as navigation, onboarding, collaboration, search, sharing, and AI-driven experiences.
• Lead Design Systems and Design Technology as a center of excellence for UI consistency, accessibility, implementation standards, and cross-product coherence.
• Own the full lifecycle of design systems and shared patterns, including discovery, design, prototyping, engineering collaboration, adoption, measurement, and deprecation.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Brand, and leadership teams to identify and execute high-impact horizontal opportunities.
• Improve product quality and consistency across web, mobile, desktop, and emerging AI-native experiences through scalable system design.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary team of designers and design technologists while fostering a strong systems-driven culture.

Requirements:

• 12+ years of experience in product design, design systems, design technology, or front-end related roles, including leadership of large-scale system initiatives.
• 5+ years of people management experience leading senior designers, design technologists, or multidisciplinary teams.
• Proven track record of building and scaling design systems in complex, multi-product environments.
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to translate patterns into scalable product and design infrastructure.
• Deep product and design craft expertise across interaction design, UX, UI, accessibility, information architecture, and prototyping.
• Strong technical fluency with front-end systems, component architecture, design tokens, and collaboration with engineering teams.
• Experience defining governance, contribution models, and lifecycle processes for shared design systems.
• Excellent communication and influence skills, with the ability to align senior stakeholders across ambiguous problem spaces.
• Strong leadership style focused on mentorship, collaboration, and raising organizational design standards.
• A portfolio demonstrating impactful systems thinking, design leadership, and product influence at scale.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package of $216,800 to $293,300 CAD.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
• Remote-friendly and flexible work arrangements supporting work-life balance.
• Annual learning and development budget for courses, conferences, and professional growth.
• Opportunity to shape design systems at scale across a global, multi-product ecosystem.
• Strong engineering and design collaboration culture focused on craft and innovation.
• Impactful leadership role influencing how products are built, scaled, and experienced worldwide.