Remote UX Director

Description

Remote UX Director

Introduction: Designing Impact, Remotely

Can your UX vision transform complexity into simplicity, no matter where you work? This fully remote UX Director opportunity empowers you to orchestrate seamless digital experiences at a global scale, ensuring every interaction feels purposeful and meaningful. Here, your leadership doesn’t just drive interfaces; it shapes outcomes for users across continents. You'll champion an environment where research, creativity, and data inform every design, while bold thinking inspires teams to break new ground. Annual salary: $169,366.

The Opportunity: Influence at Every Layer

You'll set the tone for product usability, accessibility, and engagement by guiding multidisciplinary teams through all phases of the design lifecycle. Your empathy for end users—and ability to interpret their stories—will steer ideation and feature development. You’ll partner with product leads, engineers, and support specialists to translate insights into delightful, functional journeys. This is your stage to advocate for solutions that make technology human.

Key Responsibilities: Drive Change, Shape Experience

Lead Vision & Strategy

  • Define and champion a north star vision for UX across web, mobile, and emerging platforms, balancing long-term strategy with real-time business needs.
  • Build frameworks for scalable design systems that evolve in response to product and market feedback.
  • Prioritize the influence roadmap by translating user research into actionable goals.

Empower & Mentor Teams

  • Inspire, guide, and grow a remote-first team of designers and researchers, fostering autonomy and collaboration.
  • Nurture an environment where everyone feels comfortable challenging the status quo and is equipped to back up ideas with data.
  • Conduct feedback sessions that prioritize user outcomes and design excellence over aesthetics.

Execute for Impact

  • Direct the complete user experience journey—guiding concepts from initial brainstorming through interactive mockups—while maintaining a sense of unity and delight across every product interaction.
  • Partner with engineering and QA to ship features that 100,000+ users depend on—always balancing speed with quality.
  • Use your findings from usability testing and analytics to fine-tune every release.

Advocate for the User

  • Champion accessibility, usability, and inclusion as non-negotiable priorities.
  • Simplify complex workflows—making sophisticated products intuitive for all users.
  • Present user stories and journey maps that bring insights to life for executives and stakeholders.

Tools & Environment: Built for Remote Creativity

We move fast, but you’ll always have the space to focus intensely. Our collaboration stack includes Figma for design, Miro for brainstorming, Notion for documentation, and Zoom for workshops. You’ll orchestrate backlog reviews in Jira and tap into analytics with Amplitude and FullStory. Whether you prefer quick check-ins over Slack or in-depth retrospectives, you’ll find that our workflow supports autonomy and open communication.

What Makes You Stand Out

  • You turn abstract requirements into clear, intuitive journeys—often before others spot the gaps.
  • Your experience leading remote teams translates into seamless collaboration, even across time zones.
  • When presenting concepts, you distill complex ideas—whether it's on a slide deck or in a five-minute call.
  • You build bridges between design, engineering, and support, ensuring everyone’s aligned around user value.
  • You’re energized by feedback, using it as fuel for continuous growth.

Growth & Impact: Scale Your Influence

Here, you won’t just refine existing flows—you’ll set the agenda for how thousands experience our platform daily. You'll build systems for onboarding that leave a lasting impression and guide teams in launching features that become industry benchmarks. As business needs evolve, your leadership ensures the user always stays at the center. Your insights from user research will influence every key decision.

Qualifications: What Fuels Your Success

  • Extensive experience in user experience design, with proven success leading remote or distributed design teams.
  • Mastery of design thinking, user-centered research, prototyping, and usability testing in agile environments.
  • Track record of delivering accessible, elegant, and scalable digital solutions.
  • Adept at remote collaboration tools and workflow management (Figma, Jira, Slack, etc.).
  • Ability to simplify, inspire, and communicate vision across diverse audiences.

Why Join Us?

You’ll be trusted to lead with creativity, curiosity, and conviction—never follow a playbook. We value autonomy, deep focus, and purposeful teamwork. You’ll make decisions that drive business success and user happiness, all from wherever you do your best work.

Inspired to Apply?

If you’re excited to shape UX at scale—designing not just screens, but seamless journeys—let’s build something remarkable together. If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact from day one, we’re prepared to meet you.