Director of Product Design

Job Summary
As Director of Product Design, you will shape and champion the vision for user experiences across OpenEye’s products, ensuring every interaction is rooted in deep customer understanding and validated through rigorous research. You will elevate and lead our user research and design capabilities, making user insight a critical driver of product decisions.

Your work will span from envisioning future user experiences, particularly around AI-driven interfaces and emerging technologies, to building the research practices, design systems, and team capabilities that enable us to deliver exceptional usability at scale. You will be both a visionary who anticipates how users will interact with intelligent systems and a rigorous practitioner who ensures solutions are validated through direct user engagement.

This role requires a seasoned UX leader who has built research practices from the ground up, who influences product direction through deep user understanding, and who inspires teams to solve meaningful problems rather than simply ship features.

Role and Responsibilities

Define and champion the long-term vision for user experience at OpenEye, anticipating how customers will interact with emerging technologies like AI-driven interfaces and intelligent systems

Build, lead, and scale the user research practice across the organization, establishing methodologies and standards while conducting discovery interviews, usability testing, and ongoing customer engagement to validate assumptions and uncover unmet needs

Influence product strategy and roadmap by translating research findings into actionable recommendations that shape what we build and why

Establish and evolve OpenEye’s design system and standards for consistency, scalability, usability, and accessibility across all product experiences

Lead UX strategy for high-impact initiatives, ensuring solutions are grounded in user-centered design principles and deliver measurable improvements in usability

Oversee complex UX projects from early discovery through launch, ensuring designs meet the highest standards of usability, accessibility, and polish

Mentor and develop Product Designers, building their capabilities in user research, interaction design, and usability best practices

Coach cross-functional teams in user-centered design thinking and research-driven decision making

Partner with Product Management, Engineering, and Quality to advocate for user needs while balancing business objectives and technical feasibility

Ensure feedback from usability testing and user engagement is systematically integrated into design iterations and post-launch improvements

Stay ahead of UX trends, interaction paradigms, and emerging interface technologies to keep OpenEye at the forefront of user experience excellence

Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or a related field

8-10+ years of professional experience in UX/product design, including demonstrated leadership roles

Proven track record of building or scaling user research practices, including study design, methodology selection, usability testing, and synthesis of findings into actionable insights

Experience leading end-to-end UX design for complex software applications from research through delivery

Strong portfolio demonstrating user-centered design thinking, usability improvements, and measurable impact on user experience

Evidence of influencing product strategy and priorities through user research and UX advocacy

Deep understanding of user-centered design methodologies, usability principles, interaction design patterns, and WCAG accessibility standards

Exceptional ability to articulate user needs and design rationale to influence stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership

Experience mentoring designers and building design capabilities within teams

Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD

Preferred Qualifications

Experience creating, maintaining, and scaling design systems for enterprise software or SaaS products

Demonstrated expertise in designing AI-driven experiences, conversational interfaces, or intelligent systems

Experience working in IP video, physical security, business intelligence, IoT, or related technical domains

Track record of organizational change management

Strong ability to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints while keeping the user’s perspective central

Familiarity with modern software engineering practices and how UX integrates into development workflows

Who You Are

A Master of Scalable Impact: You excel with a ‘one-to-many’ mindset, finding clever ways to deliver value to a large portfolio without sacrificing quality.

Data-Driven and Tech-Savvy: You are comfortable using data and AI tools not just to report on the past, but to predict the future and decide where to act next.

A Collaborative Partner: You understand that success in a channel environment means working through partners, not around them, and you thrive on that shared ownership.

A HEROIC Teammate: You embody our values: showing H eroic customer service, championing E ase by making value clear and simple to achieve, taking R esponsibility, seeking O pportunities for growth, demonstrating I ntegrity, and driving C ontinual improvement

The Perks!

The pay range for this opportunity is $120,000 - $180,000 annually

Employees are eligible to purchase company stock at a discounted rate

Collaborative, fun, creative culture where idea sharing is encouraged

Medical, dental, vision & prescription benefits starting day 1! Generous medical plan subsidy and health savings account option with company contribution helps keep your costs low.

Up to $5,000 annual company match for 401k

Company paid short-term/long-term disability, AD&D and life insurance

Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA) to get reimbursed for your well‑being needs

Paid maternity and paternity leave

Pet Insurance

Free annual membership to Care.com

Free access to the Headspace app for you and up to five friends and family members.

7 Paid Sick/Wellness days per year

9 Paid Holidays per year

Educational Assistance Program covering non‑degree support, undergraduate and graduate degrees

Employee Equipment Program – Free Alarm.com system for your home!

OpenEye is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Please note that sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time.

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