Senior Director of Digital Experience Design

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Washington.

📋 Description

• Establish and lead the design vision for all customer-facing digital interfaces, including web, mobile, eCommerce flows, and future experiences.

• Convert Slate’s brand and product strategy into a unified, human-centered design approach.

• Champion the customer perspective in roadmap discussions, sprint reviews, and executive meetings.

• Set and uphold quality standards for design output from initial concepts to final production delivery.

• Mentor, guide, and develop a team of UI designers, UX designers, and copywriters.

• Recruit to address capability gaps as Slate transitions from pre-launch to post-launch phases.

• Cultivate a culture of craftsmanship, curiosity, and open feedback.

• Create career development paths and growth frameworks for designers.

• Manage and enhance Slate’s digital design system across web and native app platforms.

• Scale version-controlled design artifacts, component libraries, and documentation.

• Enhance design workflows within agile delivery methodologies.

• Promote the use of Figma, design tokens, and handoff processes.

• Expand UX research through user testing, usability assessments, and data-driven iterations.

• Collaborate with Product and Software leaders on roadmap prioritization, requirements, and design-engineering compromises.

• Work alongside brand, marketing, and vehicle design teams.

• Represent design in discussions at the executive and board levels.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 15 years of experience in product design, UX, or UI design for high-volume consumer/customer experiences.

• A minimum of 7 years in a leadership role, including managing managers or leads.

• A robust portfolio showcasing end-to-end ownership of intricate digital products: strategy, research, interaction design, visual design, and delivery.

• Extensive experience in building and managing design systems based on atomic design principles, including tokens, components, documentation, and governance.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with product and engineering teams, including sprint planning, backlog management, and technical tradeoff discussions.

• Experience designing across multiple platforms: responsive/adaptive web, native mobile (iOS/Android), or embedded/in-vehicle UI.

• Proficiency in Figma and contemporary prototyping workflows.

• Experience with GenAI in an agile production setting.

• Expertise in establishing team-wide design tooling standards.

• Experience leading design optimization initiatives through A/B and multivariate testing.

• Strong instincts in UX research.

• Exceptional communication abilities.

• Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Product Design, Graphic Design, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• Candidates must be authorized to work permanently in the United States.

• Preferred: background in growth design and/or interaction design.

• Preferred: experience in leading the design of new or scaling e-commerce or digital marketplaces.

• Preferred: familiarity with HTML, CSS, and component-based front-end frameworks (MUI, Tailwind, etc.).

• Preferred: Master’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, or a related field.

• Preferred: experience in scaling a design team from early-stage through a significant product launch.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Disability insurance.

• Vacation.

• 401k.

• Potential eligibility for an equity program.

• Potential eligibility for a discretionary annual incentive program.