Director, Product Design
Raptor Technologies
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Lead, coach, and develop a mid-sized team of Product Designers located across the US and UK
- Establish "what good looks like" for design craft: UX quality, design systems contribution, cross-functional collaboration, and delivery discipline
- Build and maintain a high-performing team through hiring, onboarding, and capability development
- Own the design team's budget, headcount planning, and resource allocation
- Support designer growth through active investment in career development, personal development planning, and relevant training opportunities
- Own and evolve Raptor's design system, ensuring it scales to support both product and cross-functional use cases
- Drive consistency across Raptor's product suite
- Partner with Engineering and Product Management leadership to drive alignment on scope, sequencing, design readiness, and delivery commitments
- Engage directly with customers and prospects to gather feedback, validate design decisions
- Champion the adoption of AI-based design tools, workflows, and processes across the design team
Requirements
- 10+ years of product/UX design experience, including demonstrated people leadership of a design team
- Proven track record of shipping high-quality product design at scale — not just discovery and process, but delivered outcomes
- Deep experience owning and evolving a design system in a multi-product environment
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills; a demonstrated ability to build trust and accelerate work with Engineering and Product partners
- Ability to balance design craft with delivery pragmatism — knows when to iterate and when to ship
- Strong communicator; able to give clear, direct feedback and create alignment across design, product, and engineering stakeholders
- Experience establishing design team operating rhythms, feedback loops, and quality standards
- Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) and experience embedding compliance into design practice
- Experience leading distributed or international design teams, with the ability to build cohesion and culture across time zones and geographies
- Experience in B2B SaaS or enterprise software environments preferred
Benefits
- Remote-first philosophy
- Flexible paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- 11 Paid holidays per year
- Workplace flexibility
- Affordable health coverage (medical, dental, vision), paid 100% for employee only medical
- 401(k) employer contribution to help you plan for the future
- Company paid life insurance, STD, and LTD
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product designUX designdesign systemsAI-based design toolsaccessibility standardsWCAGdesign qualitycross-functional collaborationresource allocationbudget management
Soft Skills
people leadershipcommunicationtrust buildingfeedback deliveryteam cohesioncareer developmentpersonal development planningcollaborationdelivery pragmatismcoaching