We're looking for a Senior Director, User Experience to lead design across Later's product portfolio, spanning Later Influence, Later Social, and Mavely. You'll build and lead a team of 5 to 6 UX designers, partnering closely with roughly 10 product managers and an engineering organization of 100+ developers to ship experiences that are cohesive, intuitive, and scalable across our lines of business. Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you'll be the systems thinker who connects design decisions across teams into one coherent product experience, setting the design standards, patterns, and processes that let Later move fast without fragmenting the product. This is a high-visibility role with regular exposure to senior leadership and direct influence over how brands and creators experience Later's platform. This is a remote position managing a remote team. Travel is required 1-2 times per quarter
Pioneer and execute agentic UX workflows, building functional AI prototypes that unify product design across Later Social, Later Influence, and Mavely
Architect and codify the UI/UX patterns for human-in-the-loop interactions, AI trust mechanisms, and agentic failure states by actively building and testing prompts and context windows alongside engineering partners
Integrate generative AI and computational design practices into the daily workflows of the product organization, setting the standard for how AI accelerates UX exploration and research synthesis
Lead, mentor, and elevate a high-performing team of UX designers by shifting the culture from traditional screen-design to an AI-native, builder-first mindset
Upskill the design team in applied prompt engineering, computational design thinking, and the use of AI tools
Replace standard administrative critique rituals with active build sessions, setting a relentless quality bar where the team is expected to rapidly turn ideas into near-working experiences rather than static mocks
Recruit and develop design talent, building a bench that matches Later's growth trajectory
Foster a culture of craft, curiosity, and ownership, ensuring the team is motivated and set up to do their best work
Partner closely with the CPO and CTO to align design investment with company priorities, and co-create the product and technology strategy, vision, and roadmap
Accelerate delivery across the 100+ developer organization by implementing robust design tokens and AI-assisted design-to-code pipelines, removing the friction between design intent and shipped reality
Partner deeply with the roughly 10 product managers to compress discovery cycles, using AI-driven usability analysis and rapid prototyping to materially shorten the path from customer problem to tested solution
Co-author front-end architecture strategies with engineering leadership, ensuring UX standards are scalable, API-aware, and built on shared logic rather than fragmented static screens
Represent design in company-wide planning and prioritization conversations, ensuring UX is a first-class input to roadmap decisions
Set and hold the bar for design craft across the portfolio, from interaction design to visual polish
Champion accessibility and usability best practices across every product surface
Balance speed and quality, knowing when to push for polish and when to ship and iterate
Build a lightweight, repeatable approach to user research that keeps design decisions grounded in real customer and creator behavior
Translate research and usage data into design priorities that connect to measurable product and business outcomes
Make AI-assisted exploration, prototyping, research synthesis, usability analysis, and design-to-development workflows part of the team's operating model, materially shortening the path from customer problem to tested solution before significant engineering investment
Model and drive a proactive, learning approach with internal stakeholders and customer and user personas, creating a culture of curiosity where the team becomes deeply familiar with customer and stakeholder workflows, pain points, and needs
How we work
We will do whatever it takes to win: We win when our customers and creators win. We bring full commitment to outcomes that matter, not just effort
We have no limit to our aspiration: We think big, push beyond what seems possible, and refuse to let conventional thinking set the ceiling
We are relentless: We keep going. Through ambiguity, setbacks, and competing priorities, we find a way forward
We deeply understand our business: If we don't have the knowledge, we figure it out. We take ownership of understanding how Later works and what drives results
We take our work seriously, but not ourselves: We bring rigor and accountability without ego, and we make space for each other to do our best work
$ 220,000 - $ 275,000 USD OTE (base + bonus)
We have offices in Boston, MA; Vancouver, BC; and Vancouver, WA. For select positions, we are open to hiring fully remote candidates. We post our positions in the location(s) where we are open to having the successful candidate be located
At Later, we are committed to fostering a culture rooted in an inclusion-first mindset at every level of the company, embracing the importance of hiring and building teams for culture add rather than culture fit. We openly build and maintain unbiased hiring, pay, and promotion practices to create a foundation for an equitable workplace, paving the way for systemic change