Director, Product Design

Bubble is an innovative company dedicated to empowering users to create software through its AI visual development platform. The Director of Product Design will lead the product design team, focusing on building processes, refining the design system, and enhancing the user experience to achieve the company's goal of being the leading AI visual development platform.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of talented product designers, identifying development and growth opportunities and providing regular coaching and feedback
• Drive product design hiring, including defining the hiring and interview plan and leading the interview process
• Establish product design best practices and processes across product discovery and delivery
• Ensure the team is operating efficiently in exploring and validating designs, and scoping and iterating on launches
• Refine Bubble’s design system, ensuring it is modern, intuitive, and applied consistently across the product
• Lead by example, speaking with users, collaborating cross-functionally, identifying opportunities, and validating ideas
• Refine our product vision, ideal customer profile, and ideal user journey leveraging research and validating with users

Requirements:

• 10+ years of product design experience working on challenging UX problems, including experience in PLG SaaS
• 5+ years experience leading design teams, ideally having scaled teams in a high-growth startup environment
• Track record of recruiting world-class senior talent and developing high-performing teams
• Deep experience guiding teams through user research, design exploration & refinement, and iteration
• Passion for putting in place design best practices and systems to enable teams to scale effectively
• Ability to make pragmatic prioritization, scope, and design decisions while balancing user needs, design vision, and business objectives
• Excited about AI and no-code development, with prior experience a nice-to-have