# Senior Director, Design at Rent the Runway

- Company: Rent the Runway
- What the company does: The premier designer rental destination giving you more access, style and options than anywhere else. RTR’s rotating closet is constantly updated with new trends, does your dry cleaning and takes up zero space. The future of fashion is here. Backed by Kleiner Perkins.
- Company website: http://www.renttherunway.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Brooklyn, NY (Rent the Runway HQ)
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $208K to $270K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-02
- Apply by: 2026-12-17
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/renttherunway/jobs/8345820?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rent-the-runway-senior-director-design/

## About the role

The Senior Director, Design owns the design infrastructure that makes RTR's platform work: the systems, experiences, and visual language that shape how customers discover, navigate, and fall in love with what we offer. This role leads RTR's in-house design function and is responsible for the quality, coherence, and performance of design across the entire customer-facing platform. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- You have 10+ years of design experience with demonstrated leadership of multi-disciplinary design teams
- You have built or significantly evolved a design system in a consumer-facing product environment, and you understand how design systems scale across teams and surfaces
- You have strong product design instincts and experience designing for complex user journeys, checkout flows, personalization experiences, and discovery surfaces are areas where you've done meaningful work
- You understand how AI is changing the product design landscape and have a POV on how to integrate AI-powered features into a coherent, trustworthy user experience
- You are a skilled cross-functional partner, you work comfortably alongside product managers, engineers, and brand leaders, and you can translate design decisions into business impact in language your partners understand
- You bring clarity and structure to ambiguous situations, you can define the design problem, align stakeholders on the approach, and then lead the team to execute against it

Tags: Product

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rent-the-runway-senior-director-design/