VP, Product Design, Informatica

About the role

As the Vice President of Product Design, you'll drive the overall user experience across the Informatica portfolio. You will be responsible for the experience design vision, strategy, and implementation of the Informatica suite of Data Management and GenAI products used by businesses globally. This role collaborates closely with Salesforce teams building the future of the Agentic Enterprise, including Data360, MuleSoft, Tableau, and Agentforce teams.

You will lead a global team of world-class designers with a track record of defining elegant product solutions. Reporting directly to the SVP of Salesforce UX & Product Design, you will sit on that organization's leadership team to help drive product strategy and ensure a design-led approach to product development.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Vision & Leadership:
  • Build a culture of customer obsession by embedding it into every facet of design strategy.
  • Develop and articulate a compelling design vision shaped by design thinking principles.
  • Anticipate future challenges and drive clarity in high-ambiguity environments.
• Customer-Centric Product & Digital Design:
  • Lead the creation of intuitive and impactful solutions rooted in design methodologies.
  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to understand customer needs at all product lifecycle stages.
  • Develop and implement experience strategies that enhance usability, accessibility, and personalization.
  • Champion responsible design by leveraging AI ethically and transparently.
  • Drive the use of modular, reusable design patterns for platform cohesion.
• Team Leadership & Development:
  • Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing, multidisciplinary design team.
  • Foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, and customer obsession.
  • Recruit, nurture, and retain best-in-class global design talent.
  • Create conditions of trust and psychological safety for the team.
• Operational Design Management:
  • Establish workflows and systems for rapid, customer-driven design innovations.
  • Prioritize resources toward initiatives that enhance the customer journey.
  • Adopt cutting-edge agentic design and vibe coding tools.
• Stakeholder Collaboration:
  • Act as the voice of the customer in leadership meetings.
  • Collaborate with other departments to apply customer-focused design principles.
  • Drive strategic initiatives that enhance the end-to-end customer journey.

What Does Success Look Like?

• Delivering easy-to-adopt, impactful data solutions that scale to power Salesforce's vision for the Slack-powered Agentic Enterprise.
• Championing the creative vision to build next-generation products and services.
• Cultivating and sustaining a design-first, customer-first culture across the business.

Requirements

• 15+ years of UX experience, managing and building teams while delivering enterprise products and solutions.
• Experience making key contributions to innovative, successful products with a strong understanding of AI technologies.
• Bachelor's or Master's in HCI, Industrial/Visual Design, Behavioral Science, or related discipline.
• Experience successfully leading and directing a large UX team.
• Expertise in user-centered design principles, UX design best practices, trends, and emerging technologies.

Skills

• Experience leading global teams that created high-quality enterprise and consumer software.
• Insatiable curiosity to experiment, iterate, and scale with cutting-edge technologies.
• Success driving the evolution of sophisticated design systems.
• Expertise refining and enhancing the end-to-end customer journey.
• Detail-oriented yet capable of managing strategic, big-picture initiatives.
• Strong presentation, storytelling, and cross-functional communication skills.
• Ability to make hard decisions and be accountable for outcomes.
• Understanding of key business metrics and data and how they connect to design.

Benefits

• Time off programs.
• Medical, dental, vision, and mental health support.
• Paid parental leave.
• Life and disability insurance.
• 401(k) and employee stock purchasing program.

Pay

The typical base salary range for this position is $257,500 - $451,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range is $310,200 - $496,400 annually. The range represents base salary only and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity, or benefits.