Director Product Design

DesignX; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 179,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Wellbeing benefit

WFH equipment allowance

Learning & Development stipend

Job summary

Miro is seeking a Director of Product Design to lead a small team and remain an active designer. You’ll be the creative director for your area, shaping how design thinks about problems and how to execute the vision.

This is a pivotal moment for AI-enabled collaboration, and you’ll influence product strategy and work with cross-functional partners to hire for growth while maintaining strong craft across the team.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product design experience with leadership in tech.
• Portfolio showing strategic thinking and high-quality craft at the system level.
• Experience designing AI-powered or AI-adjacent product experiences.
• Fluent with modern design tools, especially Figma, and a mature design system.

Responsibilities

• Set the creative vision for your product area and maintain high craft in the work.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of product designers across multiple levels.
• Contribute hands-on design work shaping early frameworks and interactions.
• Drive design strategy across Discover, Define, and Deliver lifecycle.
• Align Product, Engineering, and Analytics around a shared design direction.
• Run design critiques that are direct and focused on improving the work.
• Identify gaps in team capability and advocate for hiring or re-structuring.

Skills

Product design leadership

Portfolio showcasing system-level work

AI-powered product design

Figma and design systems

Tools

Figma

Job description

About The Team

Design at Miro sits at the heart of how millions of people experience collaboration. Our product design team works across the full breadth of the platform, from the foundational canvas experience to the emerging AI-powered capabilities that are redefining how teams think, create, and build together. We're a team that cares deeply about craft, moves with intention, and believes that great design is inseparable from great outcomes.

As Miro continues to grow and evolve, the design team is scaling to meet that ambition. We're investing in leadership that can raise the bar on both the quality of our work and the health of our teams, people who understand that building a great design org and shipping great product experiences are the same job.

About The Role

As Director of Product Design, you will lead a small team and be an active designer yourself. This is not a role where leadership means distance from the work. You'll be the creative director for your area of the product, shape how design thinks about problems and solutions, and then roll up your sleeves to ensure the execution matches the vision.

This role is critical because Miro is at an inflection point. AI is changing what collaboration software can and should be, and the design decisions made now will shape how teams around the world work for years to come. You'll have the scope, the resources, and the mandate to do some of the most consequential design work of your career.

What You’ll Do

• Set the creative vision for your product area and hold the bar for it - not just in words, but in the work itself. You'll define what good looks like, then stay close enough to the craft to know when you're getting there and when you're not.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of product designers across multiple levels, building a culture where rigorous critique and psychological safety exist in the same room.
• Get your hands dirty at the moments that matter, shaping early frameworks when the problem is still fuzzy, writing the interaction logic that unlocks a stuck design, pushing the details on a surface that's going to be seen by millions.
• Drive design strategy across the full Discover, Define, and Deliver lifecycle, making sure the team is asking the right questions before they're crafting the right answers.
• Align stakeholders across Product, Engineering, and Analytics around a shared design direction, and hold that direction with conviction through the ambiguity and tradeoffs of real product development.
• Run design critiques that are genuinely useful: direct, and focused on making the work better rather than making everyone comfortable.
• Spot gaps in team capability and make the case for what we need to build - through hiring, development, or how we structure the work.

What You’ll Need

• 10+ years of product design experience, with at least 4 years leading and managing teams in a technology company.
• A portfolio that demonstrates both strong strategic thinking and high-quality craft - work that you shaped at the system level alongside work where your hands were directly on the pixels.
• Proven experience designing AI-powered or AI-adjacent product experiences, with a clear point of view on what good looks like when the system is dynamic, generative, or probabilistic.
• Deep fluency with modern design tools, particularly Figma, and comfort working within or evolving a mature design system.

What's In It For You

We want you to feel supported, connected, and ready to grow. Our global benefits package generally includes equity, a wellbeing benefit, a WFH equipment allowance, and an annual Learning & Development stipend. Join a diverse team where you can do your best work. Full benefits may differ per location. If you would like to learn more about location-specific benefits, please refer to our Global Miro benefits board.

New York salary range

$237,000-$356,000 USD

About Miro

Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 100M users and 250,000 companies collaborate in the Innovation Workspace. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,600 employees in 13 hubs around the world.

We are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!

Check Out More About Life At Miro

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Miro’s mission - Empower teams to create the next big thing - is how we think about our product, people, and culture. We believe that creating big things requires diverse and inclusive teams. Diversity invites all talent with different demography, identities and styles to step in, and inclusion invites them to step closer together. Every day, we are working to build a more diverse Miro, cultivate a sense of belonging for future and current Mironeers around the world, and foster an environment where everyone can collaborate and embrace differences.

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