Director, Product Design

Role Description

Lead and develop a team of product designers across multiple product pods, including direct ownership of hiring, performance, and career growth.

Partner with the VP of Design on design strategy, org design, and how the design function scales over time.

Create the conditions for designers to do their best work: align stakeholders, manage cross-functional dependencies, and drive clarity into ambiguous projects.

Set and hold the craft bar across the platform — interaction patterns, visual execution, design system standards, and long-term product quality — keeping it consistent as the team and surface areas grow.

Help define how product design operates at Givebutter, establishing how the team designs with AI tools and for AI-driven product experiences.

Act as a strategic design partner to senior Product and Engineering leaders, shaping cross-functional decisions and aligning teams around shared outcomes.

Influence product strategy through deep insight into our users (fundraisers and donors), turning ambiguous cross-product problems into clear direction for the team.

Make high-stakes design decisions that balance craft, speed, and business impact, with a company-level ownership mindset.

Help evolve Givebutter's design culture as the team grows, establishing practices, norms, and rituals that scale.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product design experience, with 3–5 years managing other designers
• Proven ability to develop designers at different career stages and build team culture intentionally
• Deep craft sensibility. You can define what "great" looks like across interaction design, visual design, and design systems, and hold that bar across a team.
• Experience working closely with Product and Engineering leadership as a strategic partner, influencing roadmap and product direction through design
• Strong judgment on prioritization. You know when to go deep, when to delegate, and how to focus a team on the highest-impact work.
• Excellent communication. You can tell a clear story to an exec audience and give a junior designer actionable feedback the same day.
• Comfortable operating in a high-growth, ambiguous environment where priorities evolve and speed matters.
• Genuine fluency with how AI is reshaping design, both the craft of designing AI-driven experiences and the way designers work day to day.
• SaaS or B2B product experience required; nonprofit or social impact experience is a plus.
• Experience designing AI-native, automation, or agentic product experiences is a strong plus.