Director – Product Design
| Company | Harness |
|---|---|
| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA, Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Salary | $225000 – $275000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Several years of experience leading high-caliber design teams
- Experience designing for developer tooling / cloud software / enterprise software is strongly preferred
- Excellent visual, UI, and interaction skills
- Experience designing interactive applications
- Experience with design tools such as Figma
- Excel at balancing detail-oriented design with big-picture strategy
- Relentless in delivering customer-focused experiences, combining user insights with business goals to drive meaningful outcomes
- Thrive in cross-functional collaboration, aligning design efforts with Product, Engineering, and Leadership stakeholders
- Exceptional communication skills, using storytelling to clarify complex problems and inspire teams
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and finding the right balance between quality, speed, and experimentation
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and leadership teams to deliver intuitive, scalable interfaces that help our customers modernize their software delivery processes and ship better software, faster
- Build and scale a team of designers, growing their skills and careers while fostering a high-performance, customer-obsessed team culture
- Inspire and motivate the team to do their best work while creating a clear design vision that aligns with Harness’ goals
- Advocate for design excellence at every stage of the product lifecycle, balancing speed, quality, and bold experimentation
- Redefine best-in-class software design and development processes
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing for developer tooling / cloud software / enterprise software is strongly preferred