Vice President - Product Design (Hybrid)
$250,000–$350,000 year
HybridToronto, Ontario, Canada or Austin, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Own and articulate the overarching product design vision and strategy for CrowdStrike's Falcon platform, serving as the executive voice of design in C-suite conversations. Partner directly with the Chief Product Officer, VP of Engineering, and senior GTM leadership to influence roadmap, product strategy, and platform direction while building a design culture defined by craft excellence, user empathy, innovation, and accountability. Lead the organization's AI transformation strategy for design—defining how AI tools, workflows, and capabilities are adopted, governed, and scaled across teams, while overseeing design systems governance and implementation across all products. Establish research, analytics, and design intelligence frameworks that connect design decisions to user outcomes and business impact, including executive-level measurement dashboards that communicate design's value to senior leadership and the board. Build and scale a high-performing organization of design managers, senior designers, researchers, and operations professionals through strategic hiring, talent development programs, career growth frameworks, and organizational design that enables speed and cross-functional effectiveness. Drive operational excellence by owning the design tooling ecosystem, annual budget planning, resource allocation, and scalable processes that maximize team effectiveness and maintain quality without bureaucracy. Shape CrowdStrike's external design brand by representing the organization at industry events, with customers, and in the broader design community while championing design thought leadership.
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of product design experience
- demonstrated track record of design leadership at scale
- 8+ years of executive or senior design leadership experience
- experience leading managers of managers
- experience leading large, distributed design organizations
- Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes
- Proven ability to set and execute a design vision that drives measurable product and business outcomes
- deep expertise across the full design discipline — UX, visual design, design systems, research, and design operations
- Executive presence
- exceptional communication skills
- proven ability to influence at the C-suite level
- ability to align cross-functional stakeholders
- ability to inspire large organizations around a shared design vision
- Strong data-informed approach to decision-making
- experience building measurement frameworks that connect design to business impact
- demonstrated ability to lead AI adoption and transformation within a design organization
- Deep AI expertise
- experience designing and shipping AI-powered features and tooling in enterprise product design environments
- understanding of AI/ML interaction patterns
- understanding of conversational UI
- understanding of agentic workflows
- understanding of the unique UX challenges of deploying AI at scale in production systems
- Demonstrated success building and scaling design organizations in fast-paced, high-growth environments
- experience with organizational development
- experience with team structuring
- experience with change management at scale
- Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field
- Ability to work from a US office 2+ days per week
Desired Qualifications
- advanced degree
- Experience leading product design at a top-tier enterprise software, cybersecurity, or SaaS company
- deep familiarity with complex, data-dense product environments such as security operations, analytics platforms, or developer tooling
- Knowledge of the cybersecurity industry
- understanding of the unique UX challenges of security operations workflows
- published thought leadership
- conference speaking
- recognized presence in the broader product design community
- Experience partnering on M&A activity
- evaluating design maturity of acquisition targets
- leading post-acquisition design integration
- familiarity with AI-driven design tooling
- forward-looking perspective on agentic workflows
- Background in organizational development and design culture building at scale
- experience managing large design operations budgets
- experience managing vendor relationships
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