Director of Product Design, Smartsheet
$205-297k
+ Market competitive incentive opportunity. Salary dependent on location
Dynamic workspace platform for collaboration
Job no longer available
Dynamic workspace platform for collaboration
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$205-297k
+ Market competitive incentive opportunity. Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
to empower anyone to drive meaningful change — for themselves, their businesses, and the world.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of experience in a highly cross-functional role running strategic projects from idea through implementation
- 6+ years leading & mentoring UX teams, manager of managers a plus
- Successful experience leading a large team of designers (10+)
- Examples of broadly influential UX work that contributed directly to the achievement of business goals
- Experience designing for enterprise SaaS platforms
- Passion for the field of User Experience. Self motivated and enthusiastic; knows when it's necessary to seek out guidance
- Experience facilitating activities to gather insights on user needs and goals and conducting usability testing
- Experience finding simple, innovative solutions for complex problems
- Experience with Agile methodologies
- Strong visual design skills and sensibilities
- Expert in Figma, Creative Cloud or other visual design, wireframing, and prototyping tools. Proficiency in rapid prototyping
- Highly organized with planning, conducting, and tracking work
- Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills; ability to work successfully with teams across the organization, including Product Management and Engineering
- Ability to articulate design decisions and advocate for the user
What the job involves
- As a member of the Experience Design team, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of work, making our category-leading work execution platform valuable, intuitive, elegant, and engaging
- As the Director of Product Design, you will lead and grow a diverse and talented team of Product Designers in applying principles of design thinking to conceptualize engaging and personalized user experiences for our web and mobile apps
- You will report to our Sr. Director of Product Design located in our Bellevue, WA office, or you may work remotely from anywhere in the US where Smartsheet is a registered employer
- Help establish, drive and articulate a vision for the future of design at Smartsheet
- Define the user experience strategy and vision for your areas of oversight
- Establish goals and target metrics that design decisions can be mapped to
- Manage the day-to-day and strategic activities of UX designers, making sure that the human-centered process is properly planned and followed
- Build, evolve and scale UX processes, standards, and tools
- Mentor and coach UX designers in a motivating and supportive manner and keep the team on top of emerging UX techniques and tools
- Develop career paths and programs tailored to individual team member professional development
- Gain a deep understanding of user needs and goals and communicate them to cross functional product teams
- Create alignment with other groups within the company by working collaboratively with product teams to launch new features and evolve existing ones based on an understanding of user needs, business objectives and technical constraints
- Translate business goals into innovative, creative and engaging product experiences
- Support other duties
Our take
With teams increasingly moving to remote work across many industries, companies have been reaching for tools to keep operations smooth and communications open. Founded in 2005, Smartsheet is a cloud-based work management platform helping a vast range of companies, from small businesses to large enterprises, plan, track, and report on work.
Like other team collaboration software companies, such as Lucid and Atlassian, Smartsheet saw strong growth in the early 2020s and achieved 17% year-on-year revenue increases through 2025. If the company can maintain this success, it stands to make real gains in a global team collaboration market expected to be worth about $20 billion by 2028.
Smartsheet has embedded itself across various industries, with deep integrations with applications from the likes of Salesforce, Atlassian, Google, and Microsoft, making it the first work management sector Unicorn to reach $1 billion in recurring annual revenue in 2024. Thanks to its successes, it was bought by Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners for $8.4 billion in 2025 with an eye on further international scaling, leveraging the reach of its new parent companies.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2017
$60m
SERIES F
May 2014
$35m
SERIES E
Total funding: $127.4m
Company benefits
- Lucrative Employee Stock Purchase Program (15% discount)
- 401k Match to help you save for your future (50% of your contribution up to the first 6% of your eligible pay)
- Monthly stipend to support your work and productivity
- Flexible Time Away Program, plus Incidental Sick Leave
- Up to 24 weeks of Parental Leave
- Personal paid Volunteer Day to support our community
- Opportunities for professional growth and development including access to LinkedIn Learning online courses
- Company Funded Perks, including a counseling membership, primary care membership, local retail discounts, and your own personal Smartsheet account
- Teleworking options from any registered location (role specific)
- HSA, 100% employer-paid premiums, or Buy-up medical/vision and dental coverage options for full-time employees
- Equity - Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) with all offers
- US employees are automatically covered under Smartsheet-sponsored life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability plans
- US employees receive 12 paid holidays per year
Company HQ
West Bellevue, Bellevue, WA
Leadership
Mark Mader
(President & CEO)Having studied at Dartmouth, Mark spent 2 years as a Greenwich Associates Research Associate before 10 years at Onyx Software. They then founded Smartsheet in 2005 as CEO.
Brent Frei
(Founder & Board Member)Brent worked at Motorola and Microsoft for 4 years before founding Onyx Software in 1994 and Smartsheet in 2005. They have been a Board Member since, alongside working as CEO of TerraClear.
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