Replit
Director of Product Design
Foster City, CA · Director · Full-time
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About the role
- With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.
- You'll whiteboard with designers, navigate complex product decisions.
- You're someone who naturally connects disciplines, elevates the people around you, and makes both the work and the team better every day.
Responsibilities
- Lead the day-to-day operations of Replit's Product Design organization, ensuring work is aligned, prioritized, and delivered to an exceptionally high standard.
- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of product designers, helping them grow their craft, confidence, and impact.
- Stay deeply informed across active initiatives, surfacing the context and insights that enable the Co-Founder & Head of Design to engage quickly in meaningful design critique and high-impact product decisions.
- Raise the quality of product design through thoughtful feedback, exceptional craft, and strong design taste.
- Help evolve Replit's design practices, workflows, and team culture while preserving the speed and flexibility of a high-growth company.
- Recruit, hire, and onboard exceptional product design talent as the organization grows.
- This is a true player-coach role for someone who loves building products as much as leading people.
- You'll lead and develop a talented team of product designers while remaining deeply embedded in the work itself.
- The Co-Founder & Head of Design remains closely involved in design critique and product quality.
- Your role is to lead the day-to-day design organization by creating the structure, alignment, and momentum that enable exceptional work.
Requirements
- You enjoy being close to the work, helping designers think through difficult problems, and making good teams even better.
- Experience simplifying complex technical products into elegant, approachable user experiences.
- Significant experience leading product design teams within high-growth technology companies.
- Proven ability to balance people leadership with meaningful hands-on product design contribution.
- A portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft, interaction design, product thinking, and systems thinking.
- Experience partnering closely with Product and Engineering to deliver technically sophisticated products.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional product development in fast-moving environments.
- Exceptional communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong design taste, sound judgment, and a bias toward action.
Nice to have
- Experience designing developer tools, technical products, or software creation platforms.
- Coding experience or strong technical curiosity.
- This is a full-time role that can be held from our Foster City, CA office.
- The role has an in-office requirement of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
- 💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)
- 🧑💻 Autonomous Work Environment
- 🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings
- ☕ In Office Amenities (In-Office Only)
Compensation
- 💰 Competitive Salary & Equity
Company info
- We're looking for someone who thrives in the work, not above it.
- Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language.
- We're looking for a Director, Product Design to lead the day-to-day operations of Replit's Product Design organization, reporting to the Co-Founder & Head of Design.
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