Director of Product Design, Sustainability Management in New York at Jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director of Product Design, Sustainability Management based in United States.

This is a high-impact design leadership role focused on shaping cohesive, scalable experiences for complex enterprise software.
You will define the long-term UX strategy for sustainability management while helping establish a unified design direction across products.
The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on product design, particularly around AI-enabled workflows, intelligent automation, and agentic experiences.
You will work closely with Product, Engineering, and executive leaders to translate complex business and technical challenges into intuitive user experiences.
A major focus will be reducing manual effort for enterprise users through trustworthy AI interactions, predictive insights, and scalable design systems.
You will also develop design leaders and teams, establish measurable UX outcomes, and raise the bar for usability, accessibility, and craft.
This is an ideal opportunity for a visionary design leader who thrives at the intersection of enterprise software, AI, sustainability, and organizational transformation.

• Define and communicate a long-term UX strategy aligned with business objectives including user retention, adoption, AI-enabled automation, conversion, and market differentiation.
• Establish a cohesive design direction across product areas, transforming individual experiences into a unified and scalable design framework.
• Help evolve global design systems, information architecture, navigation patterns, processes, and workflows to provide a consistent foundation across the product ecosystem.
• Integrate qualitative user research and quantitative data throughout the product lifecycle to inform design decisions and measure outcomes.
• Lead the hands-on design of generative AI, LLM, agentic, and predictive-insight experiences, ensuring AI-assisted workflows are intuitive, useful, and trustworthy for enterprise users.
• Drive interaction design, usability, accessibility, and intelligent automation across complex, data-intensive products.
• Partner with Product and Engineering executives to ensure design strategy is deeply integrated with product architecture, technology, and business priorities.
• Connect design initiatives to measurable UX frameworks and outcomes, such as adoption, satisfaction, usability, and other relevant product metrics.
• Represent design in senior-level strategy discussions, translating complex technical, business, and user requirements into actionable recommendations.
• Collaboratively shape product roadmaps and influence prioritization to ensure critical user experience needs are addressed.
• Coach and develop UX managers and individual contributors while fostering a culture of high performance, continuous learning, collaboration, and strong design craft.
• Lead design reviews and critiques, maintaining high standards for visual and interaction quality, usability, accessibility, and consistency.
• Establish efficient design operating models and measurable goals that support organizational growth and accelerate delivery.
• Help teams adopt AI-enabled design tools, workflows, and processes to improve research, ideation, collaboration, and product development.

• 10+ years of product design experience, including at least 5 years in a design leadership role within a complex B2B enterprise software environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Psychology, Computer Science, or a related discipline; a Master’s degree is preferred.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality product design, strategic problem-solving, leadership, and successful delivery of complex products.
• Proven experience designing complex, data-heavy enterprise software or professional-grade productivity platforms.
• Deep expertise in information architecture and navigation for high-density platforms serving diverse user roles and workflows.
• Hands-on experience implementing Generative AI, LLMs, or agentic workflows in live products, beyond conceptual knowledge.
• Demonstrated ability to evolve traditional or legacy design approaches into AI-enabled, engineering-integrated models that accelerate user research and product delivery.
• Strong experience with enterprise-scale composable design systems and the ability to establish consistent design foundations across complex product ecosystems.
• Experience working in a high-growth scale-up environment or leading major digital transformation initiatives within established enterprises is preferred.
• Familiarity with regulatory, financial reporting, sustainability, or ESG environments is a plus.
• Strong executive communication, strategic thinking, influencing, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to balance high-level product strategy with hands-on engagement in interaction design, AI experiences, and design systems.
• Strong coaching and people leadership capabilities, with a demonstrated ability to develop managers and individual contributors.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25%.
• Reliable internet access for remote work when not working from an office.

• Competitive U.S. salary: $177,000–$290,000, with actual compensation based on location, skills, qualifications, experience, and other relevant factors.
• Annual discretionary bonus opportunity.
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) granted at the time of hire.
• 401(k) match to support long-term financial planning.
• Comprehensive employee benefits package.
• Remote flexibility: Employees can work remotely from locations within their country of employment or from an office.
• Professional growth: Opportunities to lead large-scale design transformation and develop expertise in AI-enabled product design.
• Leadership impact: Direct influence over product strategy, design systems, AI experiences, and the evolution of a global design organization.
• Meaningful product domain: Work on technology supporting complex organizational needs across areas including sustainability, risk, and financial reporting.
• Collaborative environment: Partner closely with senior Product, Engineering, and business leaders in a high-growth, innovation-focused setting.