Design Director, ZenBusiness
+ Equity in the form of RSUs + Annual bonus
All-in-one business products & service platform
Open for applications
All-in-one business products & service platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity in the form of RSUs + Annual bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable anyone to start, run, and grow their business while avoiding the common pitfalls that derail hopeful entrepreneurs.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a senior design leader who thrives at the intersection of strategy and execution, leads through influence, and believes great design is both rigorous and deeply human
- A senior product design leader who is comfortable operating in ambiguity and uses design as a clarifying force
- Strong design sensibility and judgment, with a keen eye for quality, patterns, and emerging practices that can meaningfully inform product decisions
- A proactive mindset — someone who identifies opportunities and defines thoughtful paths forward without waiting to be directed
- A collaborative, human leader who builds others up, inspires trust, and leads through partnership rather than authority
- The ability to express strong, well-reasoned perspectives grounded in research, data, and experience — and to adapt those perspectives as new insights emerge
- Experience mentoring designers and helping elevate both individual growth and team effectiveness
- Comfort balancing strategic thinking with hands-on involvement to drive clarity and quality where it matters most
- Significant experience leading product design teams and shipping complex, user-centered digital products
- A track record of working closely with Product and Engineering partners to deliver thoughtful, high-quality experiences
- Deep understanding of UX, interaction design, and design fundamentals, and how to apply them in real-world product contexts
- Experience operating across multiple levels — from detailed execution to higher-level experience strategy
- Prior Director-level experience is a plus, but not required; we welcome candidates ready to step into this scope with the right leadership maturity and judgment
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Design Director to serve as the day-to-day design steward of our core product experience
- This role reports into the strategic leader of Design and is focused on design leadership embedded deeply within Product — working shoulder-to-shoulder with Product Management, Engineering, Research, Brand Marketing, and Design Systems to shape experiences that are clear, cohesive, and genuinely useful
- You’ll lead and mentor designers while remaining hands-on when it matters, setting a high bar for craft, judgment, and experience quality
- You’ll help teams navigate ambiguity, bring definition where it’s needed, and turn complex problems into intuitive, well-considered solutions others can rally behind
- Act as the day-to-day design leader for ZenBusiness’ core product experience, ensuring clarity, coherence, and quality across end-to-end workflows
- Lead, mentor, and develop designers and design leaders, helping grow individual talent while evolving the overall design practice within Product
- Work hands-on alongside designers when needed — modeling strong design judgment, craft, and problem framing
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders to shape direction, define opportunities, and translate strategy into shipped experiences
- Collaborate with Brand Marketing and Design Systems to ensure the product experience is aligned, cohesive, and scalable
- Bring structure to ambiguity by framing problems clearly, identifying opportunities, and helping teams align around thoughtful direction
- Set and uphold high standards for experience quality, interaction design, and visual execution through feedback, critique, and example
- Lead through influence — fostering trust, strong partnerships, and shared ownership across disciplines
- Apply research, data, and lived experience to form strong opinions, while remaining open to new insights as understanding evolves
Our take
Many aspiring entrepreneurs have ideas for starting a business, but getting an idea off the ground can be difficult without the right expertise. Bureaucracy and filing prevent many people from starting their business to begin with; while compliance, banking and accounting present further challenges for the business to grow past its initial creation.
ZenBusiness provides an all-in-one business product and service platform, helping entrepreneurs to create an LLC by handling filing options, business registration, and the creation of EINs. Once a business is created, the company supports it by taking care of compliance, business banking, taxes, accounting and domain name registration - helping clients grow their businesses with ease.
Whilst business creation and growth services are nothing new, such solutions are usually fragmented, resulting in entrepreneurs juggling an overwhelming number of services. By providing an all-in-one platform, ZenBusiness aims to eliminate this problem, a worthwhile undertaking which has seen the company rise to a $1.7 billion valuation in five years.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2022
$2.5m
LATE VC
Dec 2021
$3.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $281.7m
Company benefits
- A fully-remote company based in Austin, Texas
- Flexible vacation and time off policy
- Paid holidays
- Employee assistance programs
- Stock options
- Medical, dental, vision & disability insurance
Company HQ
Mccarty Triangle, Austin, TX
Leadership
Ross Buhrdorf
(CEO & Co-founder)Experience as CTO and VP of Development of Salion from 2000 to 2004. CTO of HomeAway.com from 2005 to 2015.
Shanaz Hemmati
(Executive Advisor & Co-founder)Experience as Database Architect for Surgient. Database Architect and Global VP of Information System for HomeAway.com from 2006 to 2016.
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