Sr. Director, User Experience

Alteryx Inc.; Irvine (CA); Remote; USD 253,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Alteryx Inc. seeks a Senior Director of User Experience to lead a global design organization and shape how AI-powered AI-enabled experiences feel trustworthy, intuitive, and genuinely useful. This role reports to the VP, Experience & Insights in a remote-first environment.

You will define design strategy, partner with product and engineering, and build scalable processes across four product lines while coaching four design leaders and advancing a culture of craft and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in product design, including leadership of design teams in SaaS/enterprise software.
• Experience leading multiple design teams across a broad product portfolio.
• Proven ability to operate with executives and cross-functional partners to shape strategy.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the design vision and strategy for AI-powered experiences, ensuring trustworthiness and usefulness.
• Represent design in senior leadership forums and defend quality under commercial pressure.
• Partner with product, engineering, and executives to shape roadmaps and prioritize user-centric outcomes.
• Build and operate a scalable design organization across globally distributed teams and multiple product lines.

Skills

Design leadership

People management

Strategy & product vision

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Design systems

Accessibility

Localization

Job description

Senior Director, User Experience

Location: Remote (Alteryx is a remote-first company)

Reports to: VP, Experience & Insights

About the Role

Alteryx is a leading AI-ready data and analytics company, bringing 25+ years of category-leading experience into the agentic AI era. More than 8,000 customers around the world rely on Alteryx to turn messy data into trusted, explainable decisions at scale. We're in the middle of an exciting shift: from workflows people run to agentic experiences that reason, act, and deliver outcomes on their behalf. Design is central to making that shift feel trustworthy, intuitive, and genuinely delightful, which is exactly what this role is here to lead.

What You’ll Do

Design & Product Strategy

• Evolve the design vision and strategy for Alteryx's product portfolio, with particular focus on shaping how AI-powered and agentic experiences show up for customers, ensuring they feel trustworthy, explainable, and genuinely useful, not just automated.
• Represent design in senior leadership forums, advocating for user-centered outcomes and defending design quality under commercial pressure.
• Partner with product management, engineering, and executive leadership to shape roadmaps, influence prioritization, and represent the user's perspective in major product decisions.
• Translate customer signals - research, telemetry, Voice of Customer, and preview program findings - into design direction, working closely with the leaders who own those disciplines.

Operational Discipline

• Build and run the operating model for a 30-person, globally distributed design organization: staffing, capacity planning, prioritization frameworks, and design-ops processes that scale across four teams and multiple product lines.
• Set clear, repeatable processes and expectations for design discovery, design review, and handoff to engineering, so quality and rigor don't depend on any one person being in the room.
• Establish design metrics and quality bars to demonstrate the team's impact and identify where to improve.
• Champion the integration of AI across the design practice to streamline repeatable work and create space for the team to experiment with new approaches and focus deeply on solving complex problems.
• Own budget, tooling, and contractor/vendor relationships supporting the design organization.

People Leadership

• Directly manage the four design leaders running each product design team, coaching them to grow their own people and raise the bar for their teams.
• Continue building a culture of rigorous, kind critique and high craft standards across a strong, globally distributed team, protecting what works while pushing it further.
• Champion career paths, leveling, and growth plans for designers at every level, and be a visible advocate for design careers inside Alteryx.
• Help the team blaze trails with AI, building their fluency and confidence designing agentic, AI-powered experiences, and modeling curiosity rather than caution.

What You’ll Bring

• 15+ years in product design, including 6+ years leading design managers or leads (not just individual designers) in a SaaS or enterprise software environment.
• A track record of leading multiple design teams at once across a broad product portfolio; experience with complex, technical, or data-heavy products is a strong plus.
• Genuine enthusiasm and point of view about designing AI-powered and agentic experiences, not just familiarity with the trend.
• Demonstrated ability to operate across all levels, from shaping strategy with executives to reviewing craft and providing hands-on design feedback.
• Experience building and running design operations at scale: resourcing models, metrics, review cadences, and tooling.
• Experience managing distributed, global teams, with the cultural fluency to lead well across every time zone.
• Working knowledge of design systems, accessibility, and localization, and the judgment to know when to defer to functional experts versus weigh in directly.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and the ability to influence peers and executives without formal authority over adjacent functions like product management, engineering, and research.
• A genuinely collaborative approach: this role sits inside a broader ecosystem and succeeds only in close partnership with peer leaders across the product, experience & insights, and engineering organizations.

Compensation

Alteryx is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as your relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.

The salary range for this role in the United States is $253,000 - $279,000.

Employees may also be eligible for a wide range of other benefits, such as a bonus or commission, medical, retirement, financial, wellness, time off, employee discounts, and others.

Benefits & Perks

Alteryx has amazing benefits for all Associates which can be viewed here.

For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Alteryx will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This position involves access to software/technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant's capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.

As part of our ongoing commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, we're invested in building teams with a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences.