Senior Director, Ecosystem Platform Design

Slack; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 263,000 - 401,000; Full time

Job summary

Slack is seeking a Senior Director, Product Design - Ecosystem to own the design vision for Slack's developer platform. You’ll lead a small team of designers while staying hands-on, partnering with product and engineering leadership to shape how agents and apps are built and discovered in the Slack Marketplace.

You will collaborate with partners like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cognition, and GitHub to bring their agent experiences into Slack, balancing long-term strategy with hands-on craft and team

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product design experience, including work on developer-facing or highly technical products.
• Experience managing and growing design teams.
• Hands-on experience with AI and vibe-coding tools, and a solid understanding of developer workflows.
• A track record of partnering with product and engineering leadership to define and refine product direction through design.

Responsibilities

• Design Vision: Hold and continuously refine the long-range design vision for the platform, in close partnership with product and engineering leadership
• End-to-End Platform Design: Drive design across the full developer lifecycle: defining what agents do in Slack, agent creation, install and management, and marketplace discovery
• Partner Experience: Shape how partners building on Slack (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cognition, GitHub, and more) bring their agents into the ecosystem
• Hands-On Craft: Contribute directly to the design work as a player-coach, setting the craft bar for the team
• Team Leadership: Grow and develop the platform design team, owning staffing and career development for the designers on it

Skills

Product design

Design leadership

AI + vibe-coding

Developer-facing work

Job description

Slack is seeking a Senior Director, Product Design - Ecosystem to own the design vision for Slack's developer platform. You’ll lead a small team of designers while staying hands-on, partnering with product and engineering leadership to shape how agents and apps are built and discovered in the Slack Marketplace.

You will collaborate with partners like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cognition, and GitHub to bring their agent experiences into Slack, balancing long-term strategy with hands-on craft and team