Senior Director, Product Design

Job title: Senior Director, Product Design in Palo Alto, CA - New York City, NY at Spotnana
Company: Spotnana
Job description: Are you ready for the best destination of your career?Spotnana is transforming the $11 trillion travel industry by building modern infrastructure that brings freedom, simplicity, and trust to travelers worldwide.Backed by over $115M in funding from top-tier investors, including ICONIQ, Durable, Mubadala, Madrona, and Sandberg Bernthal Ventures, we are addressing some of the travel industry's most complex challenges-and we need your expertise to help us succeed.How you'll make an impactAs the Head of Product Design, you will lead Spotnana's product design function, overseeing design strategy, vision, and execution across our full suite of products. This is a rare opportunity to define the end-to-end experience of a modern travel platform at scale. You will play a critical role in shaping how travel is reimagined for enterprises, travelers, and partners globally. This is both a strategic and hands-on role - ideal for a design leader who is equally passionate about mentoring teams and rolling up their sleeves.What you'll own

• Lead and Inspire: Manage, grow, and mentor a high-performing team of product designers and leads across multiple domains. Foster a culture of creativity, inclusivity, and collaboration within the design organization and across functions.
• Set Design Vision: Define a clear, cohesive design strategy aligned with Spotnana's product and brand vision. Deliver innovative and intuitive user experiences across web, mobile, and platform services.
• Drive Execution Excellence: Champion design quality and consistency across all touchpoints. Establish scalable processes, frameworks, and tools that support rapid iteration and high-velocity development cycles.
• Own the Full Design Lifecycle: From user research and journey mapping to wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups-ensure each step is anchored in user needs and business context.
• Influence Product Strategy: Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Executive Leadership to align design priorities with business objectives. Bring a design voice to roadmap discussions and KPI planning.
• Build Cross-Functional Alignment: Cultivate strong partnerships across Spotnana's ecosystem to ensure that design decisions are informed by data, user feedback, and cross-disciplinary insights.
• Champion the User: Advocate for user-centered design in a fast-moving, iterative environment. Drive accessibility, inclusivity, and ethical design practices across our products.
• Scale the Design Org: Develop talent, define career paths, and build a design organization capable of meeting Spotnana's future ambitions

Experience to bring with you

• 10+ years of experience in product design with a proven track record of delivering end-to-end experiences across complex platforms or enterprise SaaS products.
• 4+ years of experience leading and scaling multidisciplinary design teams, ideally in high-growth or startup environments.
• Deep experience owning the design vision for full products-from 0 to 1 and through scale.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking, design systems, UX/UI execution, and measurable impact on business outcomes.
• Ability to balance long-term vision with short-term execution, driving both blue-sky thinking and practical, iterative improvements.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills. Capable of influencing at the executive level and across departments.
• Fluency in design tools (e.g. Figma, Sketch, etc.) and design operations (e.g. component libraries, research ops, etc.) as well AI tools like Cursor, Claude etc.
• Experience working in enterprise B2B or platform-oriented companies is a major plus.
• Passion for travel and a desire to make global mobility simpler and more delightful for everyone.

• Must be willing and able to work in an open office environment in either New York City (115 Broadway) or Palo Alto, CA (375 Forest Ave.) - This is not a remote-eligible role

Let's talk compensationSpotnana strives to offer fair, industry-competitive and equitable compensation. Our approach holistically assesses total compensation, including cash, company equity and comprehensive benefits. Our market-based compensation approach uses data from trusted third party compensation sources to set salary ranges that are thoughtful and consistent with the role, industry, company size, and internal equity of our team. Each employee is paid within the minimum and maximum of their position's compensation range based on their skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related specifications.The annual cash compensation for this role is: $250,000 - $290,000We care for the people who make everything possible - our benefits offerings include:

• Equity in the form of stock options which provides partial ownership in the company so you can share in the success of the company as it grows
• Pre-tax and ROTH 401(k) options via Fidelity with up to a 4% company match
• Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability effective on your hire date. We cover 100% of your employee premiums and 85% of your eligible dependents
• Pre-tax flexible spending account options for health, dependent care and commuter expenses
• 20 vacation days per year in additional to 10 company holidays, 4 company recharge/wellness days and an end of year company shutdown
• Up to 26 weeks of Parental Leave
• Monthly cell phone / internet stipend
• Additional benefits including access to RocketLawyer's online legal platform, International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership, Pet Insurance through Fetch, Financial Wellness through Origin and SoFi, EAP through Mutual of Omaha, The Calm app through Kaiser, pre-tax parking/transit program and more

We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive environment and to encourage these values in everyone on our team. We provide an environment of mutual respect where opportunities are available without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believe that diversity and inclusion for people from all walks of life is key to our success as a company.
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Location: Palo Alto, CA - New York City, NY
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