Director of Product Design – AI, Agentic Workflows

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About the role

  • Director leading AI-native product design at Mural, a collaborative visual-canvas platform. Building agent interaction patterns while managing designers and prototyping complex workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, develop, and manage a small team of product designers focused on agentic and AI-native experiences
  • Set craft standards, run critique, and provide direct feedback
  • Own the team roadmap and staffing with product and engineering leads
  • Represent the team's work, capacity, and needs to the VP of Design and cross-functional leadership
  • Define and maintain Mural's interaction pattern language for agent behavior, including permission, disclosure, handoff, confidence, and error recovery
  • Use code and rapid prototyping to pressure-test agent behaviors and interactions
  • Establish reusable components, states, motion, and copy patterns for the broader design organization
  • Personally solve the hardest and least-defined interaction problems
  • Represent design's perspective in product strategy discussions about agents
  • Partner with research on control, autonomy, and trust tradeoffs
  • Lead workshops and design sprints for ambiguous agent-related decisions
  • Contribute to Mural's external voice on AI-native design
  • Shape how millions of people collaborate using Mural's shared visual canvas

Requirements

  • 15+ years of product design experience
  • Recent experience managing and growing designers, ideally in ambiguous 0→1 problem spaces
  • Track record of defining or evolving a design pattern language or system
  • Familiarity with agent-based or AI-assisted experience design, including memory, context windows, tool use, and autonomy/control tradeoffs
  • Comfort using code as a design tool for prototyping and exploring interaction and system behavior
  • Strong systems thinking across flows, surfaces, and journeys
  • Experience partnering with engineering to evolve prototypes into scaled, shipped implementations
  • Experience representing design in senior cross-functional strategy conversations
  • Experience designing for accessibility and inclusivity at scale
  • Experience growing a design team's capabilities from a small base
  • Background in multi-agent systems, orchestration, or workflow automation
  • Experience with canvas-based or spatial interfaces
  • Experience designing with structured and unstructured data in the same environment
  • History of shaping 0→1 products or platform-level capabilities
  • Public writing, speaking, or thought leadership on AI-native design
  • Portfolio link required
  • LinkedIn profile required
  • Legally authorized to work in the country of residence
  • Must not require employer sponsorship for the working location

Benefits

  • Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities during the application/interview process and employment
  • Other benefits and privileges of employment

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$216,504 - $270,630 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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