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Director of Product Design

Replit · Foster City, CA · Remote

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About Replit

Describe what you want. Replit builds it. Get a working app or website in minutes. No coding required. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.

About the role

Lead the day-to-day operations of Replit's Product Design organization, ensuring work is aligned, prioritized, and delivered to an exceptionally high standard. Manage, mentor, and develop a team of product designers, helping them grow their craft, confidence, and impact.

What they're looking for

  • You're a builder first and a manager second
  • You combine exceptional product judgment with strong design taste and technical fluency. You're collaborative, humble, curious, and energized by helping great work happen
  • Significant experience leading product design teams within high-growth technology companies
  • Proven ability to balance people leadership with meaningful hands-on product design contribution
  • A portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft, interaction design, product thinking, and systems thinking
  • Experience partnering closely with Product and Engineering to deliver technically sophisticated products
More about this role

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.

We're looking for a Director, Product Design to lead the day-to-day operations of Replit's Product Design organization, reporting to the Co-Founder & Head of Design.

This is a true player-coach role for someone who loves building products as much as leading people. You'll lead and develop a talented team of product designers while remaining deeply embedded in the work itself. You'll whiteboard with designers, navigate complex product decisions.

The Co-Founder & Head of Design remains closely involved in design critique and product quality. Your role is to lead the day-to-day design organization by creating the structure, alignment, and momentum that enable exceptional work. You'll stay two to three layers deeper than the Co-Founder & Head of Design on active initiatives, surfacing the context, tradeoffs, and insights needed to make thoughtful decisions without requiring constant immersion in every project.

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