Senior Design Director, Discovery & Feeds

CurationsLA; California; On-site; USD 317,000 - 444,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in RSUs

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Generous vacation time

Parental leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Senior Director of Design to lead the experience strategy for Search & Feeds, reporting to the Head of Design. You’ll guide a design team shaping how people find conversations, discover communities, and connect with topics they care about.

This role blends product vision, design leadership, and craft. You’ll partner with Product, Engineering, Research, and Data Science to make discovery more useful, intuitive, and distinctly Reddit, driving growth and retention.

Qualifications

• Experience leading design for complex consumer products at scale.
• Proven ability to build and grow design teams and manage managers.
• Strong product judgment to translate ambiguous problems into strategy.
• Deep expertise in interaction design and information architecture.

Responsibilities

• Set the design vision for Search & Feeds across experiences.
• Lead and develop the design team and establish clear ownership.
• Shape product direction with cross-functional partners.
• Raise the bar for quality through thoughtful interaction design and IA.
• Make relevance understandable around ranking and personalization.
• Design for diverse discovery needs and community health impact.
• Establish measurement of success via research and data.
• Influence across Reddit and align with the design org’s standards.

Skills

Design leadership

Team development

Product judgment

Interaction design

Information architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Job description

Reddit is seeking a Senior Director of Design to lead the experience strategy for Search & Feeds, reporting to the Head of Design. You’ll guide a design team shaping how people find conversations, discover communities, and connect with topics they care about.

This role blends product vision, design leadership, and craft. You’ll partner with Product, Engineering, Research, and Data Science to make discovery more useful, intuitive, and distinctly Reddit, driving growth and retention.