Vice President - Product Design (California)

• Own and articulate the overarching product design vision and strategy for CrowdStrike's Falcon platform, serving as the executive voice of design in C-suite conversations and ensuring design is a competitive differentiator that drives business outcomes
• Partner directly with the Chief Product Officer, VP of Engineering, and senior GTM leadership to influence roadmap, product strategy, and platform direction while building a design culture defined by craft excellence, user empathy, innovation, and accountability
• Lead the organization's AI transformation strategy for design — defining how AI tools, workflows, and capabilities are adopted, governed, and scaled across teams, while overseeing design systems governance and implementation across all products
• Establish research, analytics, and design intelligence frameworks that connect design decisions to user outcomes and business impact, including executive-level measurement dashboards that communicate design's value to senior leadership and the board
• Build and scale a high-performing organization of design managers, senior designers, researchers, and operations professionals through strategic hiring, talent development programs, career growth frameworks, and organizational design that enables speed and cross-functional effectiveness
• Drive operational excellence by owning the design tooling ecosystem, annual budget planning, resource allocation, and scalable processes that maximize team effectiveness and maintain quality without bureaucracy
• Shape CrowdStrike's external design brand by representing the organization at industry events, with customers, and in the broader design community while championing design thought leadership

Requirements

• 15+ years of product design experience with a demonstrated track record of design leadership at scale, including 8+ years of executive or senior design leadership experience leading managers of managers and large, distributed design organizations
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
• Proven ability to set and execute a design vision that drives measurable product and business outcomes, with deep expertise across the full design discipline — UX, visual design, design systems, research, and design operations
• Executive presence and exceptional communication skills with proven ability to influence at the C-suite level, align cross-functional stakeholders, and inspire large organizations around a shared design vision
• Strong data-informed approach to decision-making with experience building measurement frameworks that connect design to business impact and demonstrated ability to lead AI adoption and transformation within a design organization
• Deep AI expertise with experience designing and shipping AI-powered features and tooling in enterprise product design environments, including understanding of AI/ML interaction patterns, conversational UI, agentic workflows, and the unique UX challenges of deploying AI at scale in production systems.
• Demonstrated success building and scaling design organizations in fast-paced, high-growth environments, including experience with organizational development, team structuring, and change management at scale.
• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field (advanced degree preferred)
• Ability to work from a US office 2+ days per week.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive expertise in product design leadership, particularly in AI integration and design systems, while effectively influencing C-suite stakeholders and driving measurable business outcomes through strategic design initiatives.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Product Design Leadership
• AI Technologies Utilization
• Design Vision Execution
• Executive Communication Skills
• Organizational Development

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• UX Design
• Visual Design
• Design Systems
• Design Research
• Design Operations
• AI-Powered Feature Design
• AI/ML Interaction Patterns
• Conversational UI
• Agentic Workflows
• Measurement Frameworks

Soft Skills

• Influencing Skills
• Cross-Functional Alignment
• Inspiring Leadership

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Design
• Advanced Degree Preferred

Industry Keywords

• Design Culture
• High-Growth Environments
• Change Management
• Design Thought Leadership

Tools & Technologies

• Design Tooling Ecosystem
• Measurement Dashboards