Senior Director, User Experience
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Senior design leader directing four global product design teams at Alteryx, an AI-ready data and analytics company. Shaping trustworthy agentic experiences and scalable design operations.
Responsibilities:
- Evolve the design vision and strategy for Alteryx’s product portfolio, especially AI-powered and agentic experiences
- Represent design in senior leadership forums and advocate for user-centered outcomes and design quality
- Partner with product management, engineering, and executive leadership on roadmaps, prioritization, and product decisions
- Translate customer research, telemetry, Voice of Customer, and preview-program findings into design direction
- Build and run the operating model for a 30-person globally distributed design organization
- Lead staffing, capacity planning, prioritization frameworks, and design-operations processes across four teams and multiple product lines
- Establish processes for design discovery, design review, and engineering handoff
- Define design metrics and quality standards
- Integrate AI into the design practice
- Own budget, tooling, and contractor/vendor relationships
- Manage and coach four design leaders
- Build a culture of rigorous critique and high craft standards
- Champion career paths, leveling, and growth plans for designers
- Support the team in designing agentic and AI-powered experiences
Requirements:
- 15+ years in product design
- 6+ years leading design managers or leads
- Experience in a SaaS or enterprise software environment
- Track record of leading multiple design teams simultaneously across a broad product portfolio
- Experience with complex, technical, or data-heavy products is a strong plus
- Enthusiasm and point of view about designing AI-powered and agentic experiences
- Ability to shape strategy with executives and provide hands-on design feedback
- Experience building and running design operations at scale, including resourcing models, metrics, review cadences, and tooling
- Experience managing distributed, global teams across time zones
- Working knowledge of design systems, accessibility, and localization
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to influence peers and executives without formal authority
- Collaborative approach and close partnership with product, experience & insights, and engineering organizations
- Capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls
Benefits:
- Bonus or commission eligibility
- Medical benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Financial benefits
- Wellness benefits
- Paid time off
- Employee discounts
- Growth mindset support through all stages of careers
- Diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace
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