Senior Director, User Experience

About this position: We're looking for a Senior Director, User Experience to lead design across Later's product portfolio, spanning Later Influence, Later Social, and Mavely. You'll build and lead a team of 5 to 6 UX designers, partnering closely with roughly 10 product managers and an engineering organization of 100+ developers to ship experiences that are cohesive, intuitive, and scalable across our lines of business. Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you'll be the systems thinker who connects design decisions across teams into one coherent product experience, setting the design standards, patterns, and processes that let Later move fast without fragmenting the product. This is a high-visibility role with regular exposure to senior leadership and direct influence over how brands and creators experience Later's platform. This is a remote position managing a remote team. Travel is required 1-2 times per quarter.

Responsibilities

Lead design across Later's product portfolio; Build and lead a team of 5 to 6 UX designers; Partner with roughly 10 product managers and engineering organization of 100+ developers; Set design standards, patterns, and processes; Embed as hands-on principal contributor on zero-to-one product bets; Drive rapid high-fidelity experimentation; Pioneer and execute agentic UX workflows; Architect UI/UX patterns for human-in-the-loop interactions and AI trust mechanisms; Integrate generative AI and computational design practices; Lead, mentor, and elevate team of UX designers; Recruit and develop design talent; Partner with CPO and CTO to align design investment; Implement design tokens and AI-assisted design-to-code pipelines; Champion accessibility and usability; Build lightweight user research approach; Represent design in company-wide planning.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in product design or UX, including 5+ years leading and growing a design team; Proven experience operating as a systems thinker, designing for coherence across multiple products or teams, not just within one workstream; Strong technical fluency and a track record partnering deeply with engineering on platform architecture, APIs, data models, frontend frameworks, and implementation tradeoffs; able to make design decisions that are ambitious, scalable, and grounded in how the product is actually built; Experience building or scaling a design system, pattern library, or shared UX standards across a growing product surface; Strong facilitation and communication skills, comfortable presenting design direction to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders; Experience mentoring and developing designers at varying levels of seniority, and comfortable balancing hands-on craft with strategic, portfolio-level thinking; Demonstrated proficiency with AI-assisted design, prototyping, and development tools, able to rapidly turn ideas into working or near-working experiences rather than relying exclusively on static mocks.

Nice to have

Experience in B2B SaaS, marketplace, or platform products is a plus; experience in influencer marketing, creator economy, or social/commerce adjacent spaces is a bonus.

Benefits

Eligible to participate in various benefits plans