Senior Director, Product Design - Infrastructure

Summary

Join HashiCorp's Product Design team as a Sr. Director, leading and inspiring a team of designers focused on Infrastructure, Applications, and Runtime products. You will work closely with VP of Product Management and Engineering, driving vision and strategy. Responsibilities include team leadership, strategic planning, process optimization, and ensuring design excellence across products. The role requires experience in technical enterprise products, leading design teams, and partnering with PM and Engineering. Success will be measured by consistent delivery of aligned experiences and scaling design capabilities. The position offers a competitive salary range based on location and experience.

Requirements

• Experience in technical enterprise products
• Leading design teams of ICs directly and through first-line management
• Partnering with PM and Engineering teams to emphasize a workflow-first design

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the VP of Product Management and Engineering
• Drive vision and strategy together
• Lead and inspire a team of designers
• Remold the team from reactive to strategic
• Chart a course for what our users expect from a best-in-class User Experience today and tomorrow
• Uphold a high craft bar in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment and guide the team in continuing to push that bar higher
• Leverage your experience in technical enterprise products, leading design teams of ICs directly and through first-line management, and partnering with PM and Engineering teams to emphasize a workflow-first design
• Understand and embrace complex technical problems and drive a vision to solve them with design
• Be responsible for the day-to-day management of a design team, including driving career development, empowering innovative design, and enabling a design lens to product discussions
• Learn the ins and outs of HashiCorp Products, and build context on the problem space
• Meet your team and partners and other design teams across HashiCorp. Work with leadership to rationalize, align on priorities, and ensure existing programs and priorities are addressed
• Familiarize yourself with the Helios Design System to ensure appropriate alignment of shared experiences and prioritize consistency and cohesion
• Begin to consolidate design, deliver on design projects, and generally insert into day-to-day business
• Standardize the systems for design on an ongoing basis: goals, methods, outcomes, etc., and then communicate success for design on an ongoing basis
• Define delivery processes to optimize for design-operational health
• Continuously revisit the organizational model with Secure leadership to ensure capacity to support upcoming projects
• Plan to scale design to ensure both consistency and speed of execution
• Oversee the consistent delivery of more aligned, cohesive experiences across all product interfaces through frequent coordination with design leaders across the business
• Continue your progression towards Design Excellence for all products at HashiCorp

Benefits

• Competitive salary range based on location and experience
• $263,500 — $310,000 USD (SF Bay Area / NYC)
• $241,500 — $284,100 USD (California (excluding SF Bay Area), New York (excluding NYC), Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, Washington D.C., or Maryland)
• $219,600 — $258,300 USD (Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro), Illinois, Minnesota, or Washington (excluding Seattle Metro))