Vice President, Global Design

Nutanix•San Jose, CA

1d•$438,400 - $657,600•Onsite

About The Position

Nutanix is seeking a new Global Head of Design to lead and evolve the Design Team, focusing on Product Experience during a period of platform expansion and AI-driven transformation. This role is at the intersection of experiential strategy, executional excellence, and designer evolution. The objective is to enhance the Nutanix Cloud platform experience, ensuring it remains One-Click and frictionless as capabilities and scale grow. This is a significant opportunity to reimagine UX/UI and implement an AI-powered experience transformation. The team consists of approximately 80 individuals globally, with 5 direct reports. The ideal candidate is a creative, supportive, and people-centric leader who can navigate ambiguity with calm, clarity, and decisiveness in a fast-paced environment. The team comprises systems thinkers with extensive experience in complex enterprise platforms, comfortable working at both strategic and hands-on design levels. They are adept at scaling product experiences, design teams, systems, and processes in high-growth settings and are familiar with designing AI-enabled experiences and data-driven products. Success will be measured by the User Experience becoming a major differentiator, increased design velocity without compromising usability or consistency, meaningful integration of AI into core product experiences, and the design organization being recognized as a strategic driver of product and business outcomes, elevating design maturity.

Requirements

Creative, supportive, people-centric leader.
Operates with calm, clarity, and decisiveness in fast-moving and sometimes ambiguous environments.
Systems thinkers with deep experience designing for complex, enterprise platforms.
Comfortable working at multiple altitudes—from vision and strategy to hands-on design direction.
Strong cross-functional team player with a track record of influencing senior stakeholders.
Experienced in scaling product experiences, design teams, systems, and processes in high-growth environments.
Familiar with designing AI-enabled experiences and data-driven products.
Ability to bring clarity to ambiguity.
Ability to drive alignment across deeply technical teams.
Ability to scale design systems and practices that enable delivery of frictionless and consistent user experiences throughout the platform.
Ability to evolve the existing people-centric culture at scale is critical.

Responsibilities

Evolve the design vision across Nutanix's platform, ensuring consistency across products, surfaces, and user journeys.
Lead the evolution of a unified design system that supports modular, scalable product development.
Deeply embed design into product strategy, continuing to shape roadmaps through user insights and business context.
Operationalize calm with high execution, establishing clear operating models that enable teams to move fast without sacrificing rigor.
Bring structure to ambiguity—creating alignment and prioritization.
Maintain a high experience bar and ensure end-to-end experience quality.
Lead through Cross-Functional Influence, partnering deeply with Product and Engineering leadership to translate strategy into measurable experiential outcomes.
Navigate trade-offs across technical constraints, timelines, and user needs with pragmatism and clarity.
Act as a connective layer across teams, ensuring design intent is preserved from concept through delivery.
Integrate AI/ML capabilities into product experiences in ways that are intuitive, trustworthy, and valuable to users.
Reimagine and deliver a fundamentally AI-first experience.
Envision and manifest an AI-leveraged Design/SDLC process that improves speed, exploration, and decision-making.
Lead Change and Evolve design maturity by driving adoption of modern design practices, tools, and processes across the organization.
Uplevel design maturity by introducing scalable frameworks for research, validation, and iteration.
Lead through change with clarity—aligning stakeholders and building trust across functions.
Continue to evangelize design so the Design DNA is not lost as we scale.
Scale and Develop the Design Organization by evolving a collaborative and high-performing global team.
Ensure Designer evolution continues in well-designed, scalable, and supportive environments.
Ensure processes are lightweight but effective with a bias for 1-click automation wherever possible.