Sr. Director of Product Design, AI

At Asana, our vision is to harness the power of AI to empower individuals and teams, forge new connections, celebrate shared victories, and enable seamless collaboration among teams worldwide.

To embark on this thrilling journey, we seek an exceptional design leader to head our AI design team. This marks an exciting new chapter for Asana, and we require a leader who can navigate and excel in this fast-evolving landscape. We need someone who can help us unlock this technological advancement's full potential through their insightful vision, clear direction, and meaningful collaboration with our customers and partners while growing and nurturing a healthy design org. Together, we will create valuable customer experiences that propel us toward our mission.

This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. Along with most Asanas, you’ll work from this office in person on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays and Fridays. If you're interviewing for this role, your Talent Acquisition Partner will share more about the in-office requirements.

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What you'll achieve

• Grow, mentor, and lead a talented and diverse team of design managers and product designers in our SF office. 
• Partner with cross-functional partners to establish vision, strategy, roadmaps, and processes that help us move fast and deliver value to our customers
• Help define strategy and objectives and set the vision for the user experience to meet customer and business needs. 
• Guide and accelerate your team, oversee multiple workstreams, and connect the dots between cross-org products for your team to deliver a cohesive customer experience.
• Be the champion for product excellence and help your team define what good is as the technology evolves.
• Collaborate with design leadership to evolve our process, tools, and systems to ensure we’re creating great, consistent work.

About you

• 10+ years experience in product design with at least 3 years experience managing managers and wants to be closer to work.
• Experience working in technical and nebulous 0 to 1 domains and products. AI experience is preferred but not required.
• A strong portfolio that showcases a track record of design leadership, end-to-end experience ownership, design excellence and storytelling. 
• Strong customer advocacy with a penchant for data and drive to effectively use technology to solve real customer problems.
• Focus on maximizing impact for yourself, your team, and your organization.

What we’ll offer

Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, we're committed to looking at market value which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit. 

For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $326,000 - $440,000. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the base salary range for this role may be modified.

In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity, sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

We strive to provide equitable and competitive benefits packages that support our employees worldwide and include:

• Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits
• Career coaching & support
• Inclusive family building benefits
• Long-term savings or retirement plans
• In-office culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences 

These are just some of the benefits we offer, and benefits may vary based on role, country, and local regulations. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

About us

Asana helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named a Top 10 Best Workplace for 5 years in a row, is Fortune's #1 Best Workplace in the Bay Area, and one of Glassdoor’s and Inc.’s Best Places to Work. After spending more than a year physically distanced, Team Asana is safely and mindfully returning to in-person collaboration, incorporating flexibility that adds hybrid elements to our office-centric culture. With 11+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong. 

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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