DataRobot is hiring: Senior Director of Product Design (San Francisco) in San Fr

DataRobot delivers AI that maximizes impact and minimizes business risk. Our platform and applications integrate into core business processes so teams can develop, deliver, and govern AI at scale. DataRobot empowers practitioners to deliver predictive and generative AI, and enables leaders to secure their AI assets. Organizations worldwide rely on DataRobot for AI that makes sense for their business today and in the future. This role moves beyond product-level execution to focus on organizational structure, cross-domain alignment, and strategic influence across the entire company. Design Vision and Standards (Platform-Wide): Articulate the overarching design vision, standards, and operating model for the entire Product Design team, ensuring processes and team structure are optimized to drive platform-wide experience consistency and business outcomes. Take responsibility for the overall organizational structure, talent acquisition, and professional development of the design team. Ensure the team has the necessary skills, structure, and headcount to deliver a world-class experience across the entire DataRobot product portfolio. Drive and own alignment across major product domains (e.g. build, govern and deploy capabilities), ensuring all product areas contribute harmoniously to a cohesive and elegant end-to-end user experience. Strategic Design Practice Development: Act as a recognized thought leader in the ML/AI design space, defining and driving the strategic development of core design practices, the centralized design system, and global research operations. Represent Product Design to the executive leadership team and advocate for design thinking as a core process to solve complex business and technical challenges across all company capabilities. Business Impact: Accountable for demonstrating the impact of design initiatives on key business metrics, such as user adoption, usage frequency, and customer retention, ensuring design creates a sustainable competitive advantage for DataRobot. Design Culture & Identity: Actively shape the design team's identity and culture, fostering an inclusive, high-performing environment that attracts and retains top talent. Cultivate the growth and career paths of design leaders (Directors and Principal Designers), ensuring they are equipped to scale their respective teams and product areas. Experience: 10+ years of experience in Product Design, with at least 3+ years in senior management (Director level or above) overseeing large, distributed, and multi-disciplinary design teams. Proven track record leading design for complex enterprise B2B software and a strong, practical understanding of AI/ML workflows and challenges. Demonstrated success in structuring, scaling, and optimizing a design team for maximum business impact and experience quality. Communication: Exceptional ability to communicate and negotiate design strategy, resource allocation, and trade-offs with C-level and VP-level Product and Engineering partners. Bachelors or Masters degree in Design, HCI, or a related field. You've shipped great software in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and know how to build momentum when the path isn't clear. You create the conditions for high performance and help teams navigate complexity with confidence. Strong visual acuity matters. You actively use AI design and development tools in your workflowwhether for design exploration, prototyping, content generation, or code assistance. You've demonstrated how AI can compress timelines, elevate quality, and help teams work smarter. You have experience designing for technical, code-first platforms that blend CLI, API, and UI touchpoints. You think holistically about the user experienceunderstanding that great design spans visual interfaces, developer tools, documentation, and workflows. You know how to create cohesive experiences that serve both users who prefer code and those who need graphical interfaces. Heres what your benefits package may include depending on your location and local legal requirements: Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance, Flexible Time Off Program, Paid Holidays, Paid Parental Leave, Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and more! Wow Our Customers Research shows that many women only apply to jobs when they meet 100% of the qualifications while many men apply to jobs when they meet 60%. At DataRobot we encourage ALL candidates, especially women, people of color, LGBTQ+ identifying people, differently abled, and other people from marginalized groups to apply to our jobs, even if you do not check every box. 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