Director of Product Design
Roo
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: California, Colorado, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $200,000 - $275,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead, mentor, and grow the 6 person Product Design team. Support designers in developing strong craft, critical thinking, and strategic influence.
- Own the end to end design vision across all Roo product surfaces and guide how that vision evolves as the company expands beyond marketplace offerings.
- Partner with Product, UX Research, and Engineering leadership to align design direction with product strategy and company goals.
- Build and strengthen design systems that enable consistency, quality, and scalability.
- Shape design practices across discovery, concept development, interaction design, prototyping, and delivery.
- Help define and improve core intent based experiences that support onboarding, activation, engagement, and retention.
- Translate long term vision into clear, near term design work that supports incremental progress.
- Encourage exploration and push the team to rethink assumptions while staying grounded in user needs and market realities.
- Represent design in leadership settings and help influence product direction through clarity of vision and insight into user behavior.
- Ensure design quality remains high across squads and product surfaces.
- Advocate for the customer experience across every surface and ensure design decisions always reflect real customer needs.
Requirements
- 12 plus years of product design experience with significant leadership responsibilities.
- Experience owning the design vision and execution for a full product surface in a fast moving startup or marketplace environment.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating excellence across interaction design, systems thinking, product storytelling, and user centered craft.
- Experience building and scaling design systems.
- Demonstrated ability to grow, coach, and support designers in producing high quality work.
- Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous spaces and turn loose ideas into compelling product concepts.
- Skilled at balancing long term vision with clear, incremental steps that deliver value.
- Strong cross functional communication skills and experience working closely with Product and Engineering leadership.
- Excitement about shaping the future of the industry by designing experiences that support meaningful work.
Benefits
- Accelerated growth & learning potential.
- Stipends for home office setup, continuing education, and monthly wellness.
- Comprehensive health benefits to fit your needs with base medical plan covered at 100% with optional premium buy up plans.
- 401K
- Unlimited Paid Time Off.
- Paid Maternity/Paternity and reproductive care leave.
- Gifts on your birthday & anniversary.
- Opportunity for domestic travel, including for regional team building events.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
product designinteraction designsystems thinkingproduct storytellingdesign systemsprototypinguser centered designdesign visiondesign qualitycustomer experience
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcritical thinkingstrategic influencecommunicationcoachingclarity in ambiguitycollaborationexplorationuser advocacy