Director, Product Design

Boston, NH - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 8 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Director of UX focuses on empowering our customers to build their brand awareness through personalized experiences strategic content distribution and intelligent brand management - all optimized for todays evolving LLM the Director of UX youll define the future of our brand offering for marketers. Your mission: help HubSpots customers amplify their expertise and be seen everywhere.Youll own the end-to-end experience across Brand Identity AEO Web Content Media Social & Ads and Brand Reporting transforming product complexity into simple trustworthy and powerful user experiences.

The Challenge:

Solve for the Unknown: You will own the design for a new product space from the ground up moving from high-level concepts to shipped market-defining products.
Design for Complexity at Scale: You must successfully design in incredibly complex technical situations creating solutions that are powerful in the backend but appear simple for the user
Drive AI Innovation: The product must be designed with an AI-first strategy requiring you to lead the vision for new seamless experiences incorporating generative and assistive AI workflows.

Responsibilities:

Set and Execute the Design Vision (Autonomously):

Define and own the entire end-to-end design strategy for the new product line translating complex business needs into a clear unified product experience.
Drive the products AI-first strategy championing and designing for modern generative AI-based interactions and workflows.
Turn complexity into clarity leading the design for incredibly complex technical workflows and ensuring the user experience is simple and trustworthy.

Leadership and Team Scaling (Owned):

Lead mentor and scale the UX team providing design oversight for 2 Design Managers a Staff Designer a staff UX researcher and 11 cross-functional teams across 3 groups.
Foster a culture of experimentation and iteration within the team to drive rapid progress in a 0-1 environment.

Cross-Functional Strategy & Influence (Collaborative):

Collaborate deeply with key cross-functional partners including your Engineering Partner (based in Ireland) and your Product Management counterpart (potentially based in Europe or East Coast USA) to co-own the product strategy.
Influence and align stakeholders across a large organization to drive change and secure support for your design vision.

Qualifications:

Strong Product Craft & Visual Design Skills: Must possess deep product design experience with an undeniable demonstrable strength in visual and interaction design.
AI Fluency: Proven experience designing AI-based interactions workflows and developing product strategies with an AI-first mindset.
0-1 Leadership Experience: Proven ability to lead the design of new products in a highly ambiguous undefined environment.
Dealing with Complexity and Scale: Experience successfully managing the complexity and scale inherent in designing for large technical enterprise-level product organizations.
Product-First Background: Experience working specifically in product design not solely brand or marketing design.

Desired Attributes (What Will Help You Stand Out)

Technical Acumen: High degree of technical fluency that enables effective partnership with engineering leaders on complex system design.
Influencing Large Organizations: Exceptional ability to drive consensus align diverse stakeholders and influence product direction at the executive level.
Experimentation Mindset: A mindset focused on rapid prototyping iteration and using data to guide the evolution of early-stage concepts.

We know the confidence gapand impostor syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates so please dont hesitate to apply wed love to hear from you.

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At HubSpot we value both flexibility and connection. Whether youre a Remote employee or work from the Office we want you to start your journey here by building strong connections with your team and peers. If you are joining our Engineering team you will be required to attend a regional HubSpot office for in-person onboarding. If you join our broader Product team youll also attend other in-person events such as your Product Group Summit and other gatherings to continue building on those connections.

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About HubSpot

HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is an AI-powered customer platform with all the software integrations and resources customers need to connect marketing sales and service. HubSpots connected platform enables businesses to grow faster by focusing on what matters most: customers.

At HubSpot bold is our baseline. Our employees around the globe move fast stay customer-obsessed and win together. Our culture is grounded in four commitments: Solve for the Customer Be Bold Learn Fast Align Adapt & Go! and Deliver with HEART. These commitments shape how we work lead and grow.

Were building a company where people can do their best work. We focus on brilliant work not badge swipes. By combining clarity ownership and trust we create space for big thinking and meaningful progress. And we know that when our employees grow our customers do too.

Recognized globally for our award-winning culture by Comparably Glassdoor Fortune and more HubSpot is headquartered in Cambridge MA with employees and offices around the world.

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