Search Atlas

VP of Product Design

Search Atlas

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California • United States

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Salary

💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Define and own the design language, interaction patterns, and experience architecture for an agentic AI platform
  • Build a scalable, component-based design system purpose-built for agentic interfaces
  • Establish the processes, QA workflows, versioning, and A/B testing frameworks
  • Build a lightweight but rigorous research practice that informs the product roadmap
  • Grow and lead the design team from 1–2 designers today to a high-performing group
  • Own the full trial-to-paid and onboarding experience, with direct accountability for improving conversion, activation, and retention metrics

Requirements

  • 8+ years in product design, with 3+ years leading design teams at B2B SaaS companies
  • Track record of directly improving product metrics (conversion, activation, retention) through design.
  • Experience building design functions or teams from early stage (sub-10 designers)
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating systems thinking: design systems, component libraries, interaction patterns at scale
  • Comfort operating as a player-coach: hands-on in Figma one hour, showing metrics to rest of leadership the next
  • Experience with design ops: versioning, change management, QA processes, A/B testing frameworks
  • Analytical fluency - comfortable in Amplitude, Mixpanel, or similar tools; able to read funnel data and form hypotheses independently
Benefits
  • Fully covered health, vision, and dental insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Flexible PTO
  • Personal development budget
  • Pet Health Insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
product designdesign systemsinteraction patternsA/B testing frameworksdesign opssystems thinkingcomponent librariesconversion metricsactivation metricsretention metrics
Soft Skills
leadershipteam buildinganalytical fluencycommunicationhands-on approachplayer-coach mentality