Senior Director, User Experience

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🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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Later

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

📣 Marketing

🛍️ eCommerce

🌍 Social Impact

Marketing • eCommerce • Social Impact

Later is an award-winning platform that specializes in influencer marketing and social media management. The company provides tools for brands and creators to connect, manage campaigns, and analyze performance across various social networks. Later focuses on streamlining communication and collaboration while delivering transparent analytics and data-driven insights to drive predictable marketing results for its clients.

📋 Description

• Lead design across Later’s product portfolio, spanning Later Influence, Later Social, and Mavely • Build and lead a team of 5–6 UX designers • Partner with approximately 10 product managers and an engineering organization of 100+ developers • Serve as a hands-on principal contributor on critical zero-to-one product bets • Turn business requirements into functional browser-based prototypes and drive rapid experimentation • Safeguard user experience on flagship launches through direct co-creation • Translate business strategy and customer insight into a design roadmap • Identify and resolve structural gaps across the product experience • Pioneer agentic UX workflows and build functional AI prototypes • Define UI/UX patterns for human-in-the-loop interactions, AI trust mechanisms, and agentic failure states • Integrate generative AI and computational design into product workflows • Lead, mentor, recruit, and develop UX designers • Partner with the CPO, CTO, product managers, and engineering leadership on product and technology strategy • Implement design tokens and AI-assisted design-to-code pipelines • Co-author scalable, API-aware front-end architecture strategies • Represent design in company-wide planning and prioritization • Set design craft, accessibility, usability, and quality standards • Establish repeatable user research and translate insights into product priorities • Drive AI-assisted prototyping, research synthesis, usability analysis, and design-to-development workflows

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in product design or UX • 5+ years leading and growing a design team • Systems-thinking experience across multiple products or teams • Strong technical fluency and experience partnering with engineering on platform architecture, APIs, data models, frontend frameworks, and implementation tradeoffs • Experience building or scaling a design system, pattern library, or shared UX standards • Strong facilitation and communication skills • Experience presenting design direction to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders • Experience mentoring and developing designers at varying levels of seniority • Ability to balance hands-on craft with strategic, portfolio-level thinking • Demonstrated proficiency with AI-assisted design, prototyping, and development tools • Experience in B2B SaaS, marketplace, or platform products is a plus • Experience in influencer marketing, creator economy, or social/commerce-adjacent spaces is a bonus

🏖️ Benefits

• Travel required 1–2 times per quarter • Permanent team members are eligible to participate in various benefits plans • Inclusion-first workplace culture • Equal opportunity employer • Recruitment accommodations or support available