Senior Director, User Experience

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +6 more locations.

📋 Description

• Oversee the design process across Later’s product range, including Later Influence, Later Social, and Mavely.

• Build and manage a team of 5–6 UX designers.

• Collaborate with around 10 product managers and an engineering team of over 100 developers.

• Act as a hands-on principal contributor for key zero-to-one product initiatives.

• Convert business requirements into functional browser-based prototypes and promote rapid experimentation.

• Ensure a high-quality user experience on flagship launches through direct co-creation efforts.

• Transform business strategy and customer insights into a clear design roadmap.

• Identify and address structural gaps within the product experience.

• Innovate agentic UX workflows and create functional AI prototypes.

• Establish UI/UX patterns for human-in-the-loop interactions, AI trust mechanisms, and agentic failure scenarios.

• Incorporate generative AI and computational design into product workflows.

• Lead, mentor, recruit, and nurture the skills of UX designers.

• Collaborate with the CPO, CTO, product managers, and engineering leaders on product and technology strategy.

• Execute design tokens and AI-assisted design-to-code pipelines.

• Co-develop scalable, API-aware front-end architecture strategies.

• Represent design in company-wide planning and prioritization efforts.

• Establish standards for design craft, accessibility, usability, and quality.

• Create repeatable user research processes and convert insights into product priorities.

• Lead AI-assisted prototyping, research synthesis, usability analysis, and design-to-development workflows.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in product design or UX.

• 5+ years of experience in leading and developing a design team.

• Systems-thinking experience across multiple products or teams.

• Strong technical fluency and experience in collaborating with engineering on platform architecture, APIs, data models, frontend frameworks, and implementation trade-offs.

• Experience in building or scaling a design system, pattern library, or shared UX standards.

• Excellent facilitation and communication skills.

• Proven experience in presenting design direction to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Experience in mentoring and developing designers of varying seniority levels.

• Ability to balance hands-on design work with strategic, portfolio-level thinking.

• Demonstrated proficiency with AI-assisted design, prototyping, and development tools.

• Experience in B2B SaaS, marketplace, or platform products is advantageous.

• Background in influencer marketing, the creator economy, or social/commerce-adjacent areas is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Travel required 1–2 times per quarter.

• Permanent team members are eligible to take part in various benefits plans.

• Inclusion-first workplace culture.

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Recruitment accommodations or support available.