Director of Product Design - AI-Driven UX & Systems

McAfee; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Program

401k Retirement

Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, F

Paid Parental Leave

Support and Community Involvement

14 Paid Company Holidays

Unlimited Paid Time Off for Exempt Em

96 Hours of Sick Time and 120 Hours of

Job summary

McAfee is seeking a Director of Product Design to lead our product design and systems team, elevating design quality and accelerating impact across product experiences at scale.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Content Design, and executives to shape UX strategy, strengthen design operations, and drive AI‑driven workflows from concept to implementation, including expanding beyond Figma handoff to executable outputs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product design experience, including leadership of managers, senior ICs, or multiple design teams.
• Proven ability to set strategy, translate ambiguity into clear priorities, and connect design work to customer and business outcomes.
• Strong experience with design systems, reusable patterns, cross‑platform design, and design‑to‑engineering handoff.
• Practical fluency with AI‑enabled product design workflows and strong judgment about where AI can improve speed, quality, system adoption, and implementation readiness versus where human craft must lead.

Responsibilities

• Set UX strategy and direction across multiple teams, connecting customer needs, business goals, product strategy, and measurable outcomes.
• Advance AI-enabled product design workflows that improve concept exploration, prototyping, design system application, critique, QA, and handoff—pushing the organization beyond static files toward more executable, implementation‑ready deliverables.
• Strengthen the design system as a platform for consistency, efficiency, accessibility, reusable patterns, implementation fidelity, and cross-platform quality.
• Raise the quality of design deliverables by defining what “excellent” looks like across flows, edge cases, interaction details, content, accessibility, specifications, and engineering handoff.
• Build operational excellence through stronger planning, prioritization, design reviews, decision‑making, documentation, and cross‑functional alignment.
• Lead and influence cross‑functionally with Product, Engineering, Research, Marketing, Data, and executive stakeholders to align strategy, scope, trade‑offs, and delivery plans.
• Grow talent and design culture by coaching managers and senior ICs, applying the levels and skills framework, and building a culture of ownership, feedback, high craft, and measurable outcomes.

Skills

UX strategy

Leadership

AI-enabled design

Design Systems

Cross-functional influence

Executive communication

Mentoring

Accessibility

Privacy & trust

Responsible AI

Tools

Figma

Job description

McAfee is seeking a Director of Product Design to lead our product design and systems team, elevating design quality and accelerating impact across product experiences at scale.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Content Design, and executives to shape UX strategy, strengthen design operations, and drive AI‑driven workflows from concept to implementation, including expanding beyond Figma handoff to executable outputs.