Director of Product Design

Replit is an agentic AI software-creation platform for creating, launching, and growing apps, websites, tools, and businesses through natural language.

Foster City, United States
About Replit

Replit combines an AI agent with integrated application infrastructure—including authentication, databases, hosting, monitoring, integrations, and enterprise controls—to let users build and deploy software from one workspace.

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Candidate Availability

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About the Role

You will lead day-to-day product design operations and manage, mentor, and develop product designers. You will work hands-on through product challenges, improve customer journeys and design quality, partner with product and engineering, evolve design practices, and recruit design talent.

Requirements

  • Experience leading product design teams in high-growth technology companies
  • Ability to balance people leadership with hands-on product design
  • Portfolio demonstrating interaction design, product thinking, and systems thinking
  • Experience partnering with product and engineering
  • Experience leading cross-functional product development
  • Communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience simplifying complex technical products into user experiences

Responsibilities

  • Lead day-to-day product design operations
  • Manage, mentor, and develop product designers
  • Shape and elevate the customer journey
  • Work with designers on ideas, alternatives, and product challenges
  • Surface initiative context and insights for design critique and product decisions
  • Raise product design quality through feedback and craft
  • Evolve design practices and workflows
  • Recruit, hire, and onboard product design talent

Benefits

  • Equity
  • 401(k) program with a 4% match
  • Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
  • Flexible time off and holidays
  • Commuter benefits
  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • In-office setup reimbursement
  • Quarterly team gatherings
  • In-office amenities
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