Head of AI-Driven Product Design for Finance

Blackline Systems Inc; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 257,000 - 322,000; Full time

Job summary

BlackLine is building the AI-native platform for autonomous finance. As Director, Product Design, you will set and evangelize the design vision and strategy for the BlackLine platform, and you will define what trusted AI looks and feels like for the accountants, controllers, and finance leaders who sign their name to the numbers our products produce.

This is a hands-on leadership role in a deliberately lean design organization, where leverage comes from systems rather than layers.

Qualifications

• Direct experience designing AI-powered or agentic products.
• Fluency in trust: explainability, provenance, auditability, human‑in‑the‑loop approval.
• Ability to partner with Data Science and AI engineering.
• Enterprise SaaS fluency: activation, adoption, retention, expansion, and margin.
• High agency and fast decision making in ambiguous spaces.
• Experience scaling design culture, systems, and operations.
• Portfolio evidence of shipped AI experiences and outcomes.
• Knowledge of modern toolchain and front‑end collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Set and evangelize a forward-looking design vision for the BlackLine platform.
• Operate as a UX strategist across the product ecosystem and guide investment decisions to activation and expansion.
• Identify high-traffic pain points and define durable patterns for AI-era surfaces.
• Own trusted AI experiences: transparency, explainability, and auditability.
• Lead and grow the design team, mentoring and budgeting.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, AI/ML, and GTM leaders to shape strategy.
• Establish standards and metrics to drive measurable AI improvements.

Skills

Leadership

Design vision

Systems thinking

UX strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Figma

Claude

Storybook

Supernova

HTML

CSS

React

Job description

BlackLine is building the AI-native platform for autonomous finance. As Director, Product Design, you will set and evangelize the design vision and strategy for the BlackLine platform, and you will define what trusted AI looks and feels like for the accountants, controllers, and finance leaders who sign their name to the numbers our products produce.

This is a hands-on leadership role in a deliberately lean design organization, where leverage comes from systems rather than layers.