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Senior Director of UX Product Design

United States 246500.00 - 350000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted December 06, 2025
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As Senior Director of UX Product Design, you’ll lead and scale a best-in-class design team focused on creating a seamless end-to-end experience across Apollo’s platform. This is a high-impact, strategic role that will define our design vision, drive operational excellence, and partner cross-functionally to deliver intuitive, elegant, and scalable solutions that accelerate both customer and business outcomes.

Job Responsibility

  • Define and drive a cohesive UX strategy and design vision across Apollo’s GTM platform
  • Champion user-centered design and advocate for experiences that are simple, intuitive, and outcome-oriented
  • Raise the bar for design quality across interaction, visual, and system design
  • Leverage emerging technologies and AI to improve product usability, productivity, and customer satisfaction
  • Translate complex workflows into seamless, scalable experiences that drive retention and growth
  • Lead, recruit, and mentor a team of best-in-class designers and design leaders
  • Foster a collaborative, high-performing design culture grounded in creativity, accountability, and continuous learning
  • Build strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Research to drive clarity, efficiency, and shared ownership of the customer experience
  • Establish frameworks for team development, career progression, and leadership growth
  • Align design strategy with company goals to ensure UX drives measurable business outcomes
  • Partner with cross-functional leaders to integrate design into product planning, roadmaps, and delivery
  • Champion the role of design in driving product-market fit, customer delight, and operational scale
  • Establish clear ux success metrics and measure design’s impact on engagement, conversion, and retention
  • Oversee the design process from discovery to delivery, ensuring consistency, quality, and velocity
  • Strengthen design systems via contributions, workflows, and operational frameworks to improve scale and speed
  • Ensure the team delivers high-quality, on-brand solutions that embody Apollo’s standards of craft and usability
  • Drive continuous improvement through feedback, data, and iteration

Requirements

  • 12+ years in Product/UX Design, including 5+ years leading high-performing teams
  • Proven success building and scaling design organizations in SaaS or enterprise environments
  • Experience leading large-scale, end-to-end design initiatives that demonstrate measurable business impact
  • Strong systems thinking, storytelling, and communication skills — able to influence and align at all levels
  • Deep understanding of design operations, UX metrics, and experience-led growth
  • Expertise in modern design tools, AI-driven experiences, and responsive platforms
  • Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Interaction Design, HCI, or a related field

What we offer

  • Equity
  • Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
  • 401(k) plan
  • At least 10 paid holidays per year
  • Flex PTO
  • Parental leave
  • Employee assistance program and wellbeing benefits
  • Global travel coverage
  • Life/AD&D/STD/LTD insurance
  • FSA/HSA and medical, dental, and vision benefits
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