Slack VP, Product Design (Individual Contributor; Principal Architect)

Salesforce•San Francisco, CA

1d•$257,500 - $496,400

About The Position

Slack is at an inflection point. We're evolving from the world's most beloved team communication tool into something fundamentally new: an AI operating system where humans and agents work together to get things done. This isn't incremental improvement. It's a reimagining of how work happens. As Slack VP, Product Design (Individual Contributor; Principal Architect) you will be one of the most important design voices shaping that future. This is not a management role. It's a rare seat at the table for a designer who wants to define the product; to hold the vision, drive the craft, and personally execute at the highest level on the next generation of Slack. You will report to the SVP & Chief Design Officer and partner deeply with product and engineering leadership to prototype, pressure-test, and shape the platform Slack must become. You'll make work that millions of people use every day and you'll help us make the hardest design problems look inevitable in hindsight.

Requirements

12+ years of product design experience, with senior IC work at significant scale
A portfolio that demonstrates both visionary concept work and exceptional executional craft
Proven ability to define product direction through design, not just respond to it
Experience designing consumer-grade experiences, deeply intuitive, delightful, effortless, in complex product contexts
A track record of influencing product strategy at the leadership level without relying on hierarchy
Exceptional communication and storytelling skills; can make complex ideas simple and make simple ideas compelling

Nice To Haves

Experience designing for AI, machine learning, or human-agent collaboration. Ideally at the interaction pattern level, not just the UI level
Experience with enterprise software and the unique constraints of B2B SaaS at scale
Familiarity with emerging modalities: voice UX, ambient/wearable surfaces, AI-generated UI
Experience working directly with C-suite leadership to define and evolve product vision
Understanding of Slack, its ecosystem, and what makes it uniquely powerful; and what needs to change

Responsibilities

Define and prototype the long-range design vision for Slack's agentic future, producing the seminal concepts and vignettes that align the organization and inspire the roadmap
Personal, hands-on design at the highest level, pixel-perfect, conceptually sharp, deeply considered. Uses whatever tools work best (AI, code, and emerging prototyping techniques) to turn ideas into working experiences fast, explore possibilities, and raise the bar. The bar you set becomes the bar for the team.
Partner with the CDO, CPO, and Engineering leadership to shape product strategy through design. Influence decisions at the SVP and C-level through the power of your work and your thinking
Drive alignment across product, engineering, research, and brand through the quality and clarity of your design work, without needing formal authority
Lead the work to radically simplify Slack's current experience, defining what we kill, what we keep, and what we transform as we move toward an AI-first paradigm
Invent new design patterns for agentic UX, for voice-anchored experiences, ambient AI surfaces, multiplayer human-agent co-creation, and dynamic UI generation
Be a relentless champion for the user, particularly the enterprise user under pressure; the worker with 500 unread messages, zero configuration tolerance, and no time to learn a new paradigm