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Director of Product Design

Foster City, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-25 → 2026-09-27

Core

Lead the day-to-day operations of a product design organization for an agentic software creation platform, balancing people leadership with hands-on product design contribution.

Role type

Director, Product Design (Player-Coach)

Builds

An agentic software creation platform enabling application building via natural language

Domain

Developer tools / Software creation platforms / AI-powered products

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Product judgment, Design taste, Technical fluency, Team leadership, Cross-functional partnership, Systems thinking, Interaction design

Preferred skills

Experience with developer tools, AI-native workflows, Coding experience, Startup/scale-up team growth

Technologies

None explicitly listed

Responsibilities

Lead day-to-day design operations and team development, Shape and elevate the customer journey, Whiteboard ideas and solve complex product challenges, Recruit and onboard design talent, Evolve design practices and team culture

Seniority

Director, hands-on IC with people leadership

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