Director, Product Design

About the role

Location: Palo Alto, US

Sneak peek into our product

• Red Dot Design Award
• iF Design Award
• Rubrik Design Medium Page

What you'll do

• Build & Lead High-Performing Teams: Recruit, mentor, and retain a world-class team of designers. You'll be responsible for their career growth, providing coaching on both craft and navigational "soft" skills to help them scale their impact.
• Define Strategic Vision: Partner with VP and Director-level leadership in Product Management and Engineering to define the long-term roadmap. You'll transform high-level business goals into actionable design strategies that balance immediate needs with a "North Star" vision.
• Champion Design Excellence: Ensure all team deliverables meet the highest standards of craft, usability, and visual consistency across the product.
• Drive Operational Excellence: Establish and refine design processes that allow the team to move fast without breaking the user experience. You will oversee the end-to-end execution of complex product areas, ensuring a high bar for quality and consistency.
• Evangelize Design Culture: Act as a primary advocate for Design across Rubrik. You'll bridge the gap between technical complexity (cybersecurity, AI, infrastructure) and consumer-grade usability, ensuring that "Design" is seen as a business differentiator, not just a service.
• Deepen Customer-Centricity: Lead the team in cultivating direct customer relationships. You'll ensure that research and validation are core components of the design cycle, keeping us grounded in real-world enterprise problems.

What you'll bring to the team

• Leadership Experience: At least 3 years in a formal people management role.
• Strategic Portfolio: A portfolio that showcases not just beautiful UI, but your ability to lead teams through complex problem-solving, organizational shifts, and successful product launches.
• Business Acumen: The ability to speak the language of PMs and Engineers. You understand how design decisions impact the bottom line and technical debt.
• Communication Mastery: Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills. You can command a room of executives and inspire a team of designers with equal ease.
• Educational Foundation: Bachelor's degree in Design (Product, HCI, etc.) or equivalent experience. A Master's degree in HCI or an MBA is a great bonus for this level.

Additional information

If you're up for the amazing challenge of setting a consumer-grade bar for enterprise design, this could be the role for you. Please send us your resume and a link to your work to.

The minimum and maximum base salaries for this role are posted below; additionally, the role is eligible for bonus potential, equity and benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the role based on U.S. location. Within the range, the salary offered will be determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US Pay Range $250,300 - $350,800 USD

Join Us in Securing and Accelerating the World's AI Transformation

Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK) is the Security and AI Operations Company, delivering one platform built at the intersection of data, identity, and AI. The platform enables agentic cyber resilience and trusted AI operations for enterprises worldwide, built to recover before disruption strikes and stay a step ahead, so security is never the reason ambition stalls.

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Inclusion @ Rubrik

At Rubrik, we are dedicated to fostering a culture where people from all backgrounds are valued, feel they belong, and believe they can succeed. Our commitment to inclusion is at the heart of our mission to secure the world's data.

Our goal is to hire and promote the best talent, regardless of background. We continually review our hiring practices to ensure fairness and strive to create an environment where every employee has equal access to opportunities for growth and excellence. We believe in empowering everyone to bring their authentic selves to work and achieve their fullest potential.

Our inclusion strategy focuses on three core areas of our business and culture:

• Our Company: We are committed to building a merit-based organization that offers equal access to growth and success for all employees globally. Your potential is limitless here.
• Our Culture: We strive to create an inclusive atmosphere where individuals from all backgrounds feel a strong sense of belonging, can thrive, and do their best work. Your contributions help us innovate and break boundaries.
• Our Communities: We are dedicated to expanding our engagement with the communities we operate in, creating opportunities for underrepresented talent and driving greater innovation for our clients. Your impact extends beyond Rubrik, contributing to safer and stronger communities.