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Director, Product Design

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Hybrid
New York, NY, USA
320K-440K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
New York, NY, USA
320K-440K Annually
Senior level
Lead and grow a product design team, define product vision for AI-native areas, partner with product and engineering, stay close to customers, ship impactful work, mentor designers, and raise design craft and systems thinking across the organization.
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About Ramp

Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.

The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving.

We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome.

The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same.

If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it.

About the Role

Design at Ramp looks very different than it did a year ago; our designers are building tools, agents, designing memory, shipping PRs, and rethinking the entire process every few months as new capabilities are unlocked.

Just as importantly, some things have not changed about our jobs:

  • Distilling a problem into its essence to find the simplest solution

  • Finding the places where craft and delight make an outsized difference

  • Knowing customers deeply and advocating for them

  • Creativity and storytelling are the things that make us human

  • Fun needs to be part of the practice, otherwise the output lacks soul

We're looking for a Director of Product Design to lead a team of builders across some of our highest-priority bets. This role is for you if you’re excited by:

  • Leading through craft, setting vision and unlocking customer impact: you will define where a product should go, then jump into the details with the team to unblock, teach, and ship. You raise the bar through product judgment, design craft, and your ability to make everyone around you better.

  • Actually shipping and demonstrating real impact: You'll start by owning a product area and team to build trust and get your bearings at Ramp, with room to take on broader leadership over time. You'll stay close to customers and ship meaningful work alongside your designers, product managers and engineers.

  • Building the environment where great work comes from: clear roles, high standards, low ego, and just enough structure to keep the bar high without slowing people down. That means building a caring yet demanding structure, investing deeply in people — coaching, feedback, growth — so designers can do the best work of their careers and develop in this new age of Design.

It’s never been a more interesting time to build.


Please note that this role will require you to be comfortable with working in-person at our NYC HQ (located near Madison Square Park) at least 3 days/week.

What You’ll Do
  • Lead and grow a high-performing team of product designers

  • Own product vision and design direction across critical AI-native product areas

  • Partner with product and engineering to shape strategy and deliver customer impact

  • Stay close to customers and use their feedback to guide product decisions

  • Jump into the work when needed to unblock teams and accelerate progress

  • Create clarity, raise quality, and help teams ship faster

  • Raise the bar for product thinking, interaction design, systems thinking, and craft

  • Coach designers through clear feedback, high standards, and strong mentorship

  • Help define how design works in an AI-native world

  • Build strong partnerships across product, engineering, data, and design

What You Need
  • Experience leading and developing high-performing product design teams

  • Strong product judgment, design craft, and systems thinking

  • Track record of shipping products with meaningful customer and business impact

  • Deep customer empathy and comfort operating in ambiguity

  • Ability to influence across functions and develop exceptional talent

  • Active user of AI tools and excited about how AI is changing software

Nice to Haves
  • Founder or early-stage startup experience

  • Experience designing AI-native, automation, or agentic systems

  • Experience building workflow or operations tooling

  • Experience leading managers or multi-layered teams

  • Comfort working closely with technical teams on implementation details

Benefits available to all full-time Ramp employees (Global)

• Flexible PTO

• Unlimited AI token usage

• Centralized home-office equipment ordering

• Health and wellness stipend

• Budget for intra-office travel

• Weekly coffee stipend

United States

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you, with partial coverage for dependents

• One Medical annual membership

• 401(k), including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp

• Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)

• Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay

• Pet insurance

• In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more

• Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed)

Canada

• Group medical, dental, and vision coverage through Sun Life

• Life, AD&D, and disability coverage

• Fertility drug coverage (up to $4,000 lifetime)

• Group Retirement Plan with employer match (RRSP + DPSP)

• Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay, with additional time available at reduced pay

• Employee Assistance Program and virtual care through Lumino Health

United Kingdom

• Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite

• Virtual GP and at-home care via eMed x Livi

• Workplace pension through Penfold, with salary sacrifice option

• Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay with additional time available at reduced pay

Referral Instructions

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