Director of Product Design

LeanData•Santa Clara, CA

2d•$180,000 - $220,000•Hybrid

About The Position

LeanData is seeking a Director of Product Design to lead its design function and transform how revenue teams experience its platform. The role involves owning the design vision, improving design quality, and leading a team to create intuitive and powerful user experiences for complex orchestration workflows. This is a strategic role reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer, with the mandate to make design a key differentiator for LeanData, especially in the context of AI. The position is hybrid, requiring two days per week in the office.

Requirements

10+ years of product design experience, with significant depth in B2B SaaS, enterprise software, or workflow/operations tools.
5+ years leading and growing design teams, including managing senior and junior designers and developing design talent.
A portfolio demonstrating mastery of simplifying complex, multi-step workflows into intuitive experiences, showcasing systems thinking.
Strong strategic instincts paired with deep craft.
Experience partnering as equals with Product and Engineering leadership.
Comfort with user research methodologies (JTBD, usability testing, journey mapping) and connecting insights to design decisions.
Knowledge of how to maximize design technology using platforms like Figma, Pendo, UserTesting, Claude, etc.
Excellent communication and storytelling skills.
Proficiency in modern design tools and eagerness to leverage AI-powered design and prototyping tools.
Genuine curiosity about B2B go-to-market operations and energy for learning the domain deeply.

Nice To Haves

Shipped products in domains where the UI is the product (workflow builders, visual editors, complex configuration tools, active or autonomous AI Assistants).
Experience designing for Salesforce ecosystem products or other CRM applications.
Background in revenue operations, marketing automation, or sales engagement tooling.
Familiarity with agentic AI patterns, LLM-powered UX, or intelligent automation workflows.
A track record of establishing or maturing a design systems practice from early stage to scale.

Responsibilities

Define and drive LeanData's product design vision across Orchestration, Scheduling, Buying Groups, and emerging AI capabilities.
Translate complex enterprise workflows into simple, coherent, and elegant user experiences that scale.
Design AI-native orchestration experiences that shift users from manual configuration to intelligent automation.
Identify opportunities where design innovation creates measurable competitive advantage.
Set and maintain a high quality bar for interaction design, visual design, and systems thinking.
Build and evolve LeanData's design system, establishing scalable patterns to unify the product experience.
Champion AI-native design patterns that simplify configuration, surface insights, and reduce cognitive load.
Leverage data and insights on product utilization, drop-off, and engagement to inform user experience decisions.
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of product designers, fostering a culture of craft, curiosity, and customer experience.
Facilitate designers' best work through critique, career development, and rewarding creative risk-taking.
Partner with the CPO on design hiring strategy and organizational design.
Partner deeply with Product Management and Engineering as part of product triads.
Embed user research, usability testing, and data-informed design practices into the product development lifecycle.
Represent design in executive and cross-functional forums.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate customer pain points into design priorities.
Design experiences that leverage Salesforce-native and cloud architecture without being limited by them.
Design for multiple personas, including RevOps admins, sales leaders, sales reps, and executives.
Think end-to-end across the customer journey: onboarding, day-to-day usage, expansion, and support.