Director, Product Design (Head)

Velocity Global Ltd; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 319,000; Full time

Job summary

Velocity Global Ltd is looking for a Director, Product Design to lead their technical design strategy, ensure user-centric solutions, and mentor teams. This role blends design excellence with high-impact leadership to shape the future of global talent connectivity. Candidates should have 8+ years of design experience and a solid understanding of modern design systems and UI architecture.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a fast-paced SaaS environment.
• Ability to translate product intent into viable solutions.
• Portfolio demonstrating design leadership across complex platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve technical design strategy across platforms.
• Establish standards for high-quality user experience.
• Bridge gaps between design and engineering teams.

Skills

Systems thinking

Technical collaboration

Design leadership

User experience design

Component-based front-end development

Education

8+ years of experience in product or UX design

3+ years in a design leadership role

Tools

React

Storybook

Figma

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Where Your Work Moves the Needle

As our Director, Product Design, you will play a mission-critical role in uniting design excellence with technical execution. Reporting directly to our CTPO, you will drive the technical design strategy across our platform, helping ensure our solutions are scalable, cohesive, and user-centric. This is a high-impact leadership role that blends systems thinking, architecture, and hands-on collaboration across Product, Engineering, and Design.

You will help shape the future of how companies and talent connect globally—through elegant, technically sound design.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• Lead Technical Design Strategy: Own and evolve our technical design approach in collaboration with cross-functional leaders to support platform scalability, speed, and user delight.
• Build Design Infrastructure: Drive the creation and maintenance of our design systems, component libraries, and patterns that balance innovation with implementation feasibility.
• Bridge Disciplines: Serve as the connective tissue between design and engineering—translating product intent into technically viable solutions that are both beautiful and performant.
• Drive Quality and Consistency: Establish standards and processes that ensure a consistent, accessible, and high-quality user experience across our global platform.
• Mentor & Influence: Coach and uplift designers and engineers around technical design principles, building a culture of craft, accountability, and innovation.
• Shape Strategy: Partner closely with the CTPO and executive stakeholders to align technical design direction with business priorities and long-term architectural vision.
• Stay Ahead: Identify and integrate emerging tools, technologies, and frameworks that will future-proof our design practice and platform architecture.
  
  

Let’s Connect If You:

• 8+ years of experience in product or UX design, with a strong emphasis on systems thinking and technical collaboration.
• 3+ years in a design leadership role, preferably within a fast-paced SaaS or platform-based environment.
• Solid technical fluency—able to engage meaningfully with engineering teams and understand implementation tradeoffs.
• Deep experience with design systems, scalable UI architecture, and component-based front-end development (e.g., React, Storybook, Figma).
• Strong portfolio demonstrating design leadership across complex, global platforms.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Product Management and Marketing

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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