Senior Director, Product Design — Ecosystem & AI Platform

James from Montana; New York (NY); On-site; USD 218,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director, Product Design - Ecosystem to shape the developer experience across Slack’s platform. You’ll own the design vision, work closely with product and engineering leadership, and lead a small team of designers while contributing hands-on to the craft.

You’ll guide end-to-end platform design, partner with major players like OpenAI and GitHub, and drive marketplace discovery in an era of AI-enabled building.

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

• Hold and 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 agents in Slack, creation, install and management, and marketplace discovery.
• Partner Experience: shape how partners building on Slack 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

Design leadership

Team management

AI experience

Product design

Partner collaboration

Tools

Vibe-coding tools

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Director, Product Design - Ecosystem to shape the developer experience across Slack’s platform. You’ll own the design vision, work closely with product and engineering leadership, and lead a small team of designers while contributing hands-on to the craft.

You’ll guide end-to-end platform design, partner with major players like OpenAI and GitHub, and drive marketplace discovery in an era of AI-enabled building.