Director of Design

As Director of Design, you'll be the central design authority at Soundstripe, leading a small team and owning the design vision for the company's web platform and new product surfaces. You'll collaborate with Directors of Product and Engineering to bring products to life, drive strategy to meet customer needs, and advocate for UX quality. You'll also own the aesthetic and emotional identity of the Soundstripe brand, provide creative direction across product and brand/marketing design, and lead and maintain the design system, including token-based components and Figma-to-code workflows.

Requirements

• Strong product design portfolio: you’ve shipped consumer or SaaS products and can show the thinking behind the result
• Experience leading design: you’ve been part of a small company or startup where you were both strategist and executor
• Comfort with brand and marketing design, even if product is your primary lane: at our scale, the lines blur
• Design systems experience: you’ve built or maintained component libraries and know how to bridge design and engineering
• Hands-on experience with: Figma variables, design tokens, and LLM-powered code-generation workflows
• Strong communication and follow-through: you surface problems early, keep commitments, and don’t disappear into a design cave
• Willingness to push back: you have opinions about what’s right for the user and you’ll defend them in the room, respectfully and directly
• AI-native mindset: you’ve already integrated AI into your design process (prototyping, research, asset generation, spec writing, whatever) and you have opinions about where it works and where it doesn’t

Benefits

• Autonomy and ownership: your impact will be visible and celebrated
• Collaborative, flexible work environment
• Remote (US-based), with occasional in-person time in Nashville or other US state(s) for onsites and offsites a few times a year
• Small, high-trust team. Low process, high ownership