Director, Product Design
RampAbout the role
About Ramp
Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.
The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving.
We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome.
The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same.
If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it.
About the Role
Design at Ramp looks very different than it did a year ago; our designers are building tools, agents, designing memory, shipping PRs, and rethinking the entire process every few months as new capabilities are unlocked.
Just as importantly, some things have not changed about our jobs:
Distilling a problem into its essence to find the simplest solution
Finding the places where craft and delight make an outsized difference
Knowing customers deeply and advocating for them
Creativity and storytelling are the things that make us human
Fun needs to be part of the practice, otherwise the output lacks soul
We're looking for a Director of Product Design to lead a team of builders across some of our highest-priority bets. This role is for you if you’re excited by:
Leading through craft, setting vision and unlocking customer impact: you will define where a product should go, then jump into the details with the team to unblock, teach, and ship. You raise the bar through product judgment, design craft, and your ability to make everyone around you better.
Actually shipping and demonstrating real impact: You'll start by owning a product area and team to build trust and get your bearings at Ramp, with room to take on broader leadership over time. You'll stay close to customers and ship meaningful work alongside your designers, product managers and engineers.
Building the environment where great work comes from: clear roles, high standards, low ego, and just enough structure to keep the bar high without slowing people down. That means building a caring yet demanding structure, investing deeply in people — coaching, feedback, growth — so designers can do the best work of their careers and develop in this new age of Design.
It’s never been a more interesting time to build.
Please note that this role will require you to be comfortable with working in-person at our NYC HQ (located near Madison Square Park) at least 3 days/week.
What You’ll Do
Lead and grow a high-performing team of product designers
Own product vision and design direction across critical AI-native product areas
Partner with product and engineering to shape strategy and deliver customer impact
Stay close to customers and use their feedback to guide product decisions
Jump into the work when needed to unblock teams and accelerate progress
Create clarity, raise quality, and help teams ship faster
Raise the bar for product thinking, interaction design, systems thinking, and craft
Coach designers through clear feedback, high standards, and strong mentorship
Help define how design works in an AI-native world
Build strong partnerships across product, engineering, data, and design
What You Need
Experience leading and developing high-performing product design teams
Strong product judgment, design craft, and systems thinking
Track record of shipping products with meaningful customer and business impact
Deep customer empathy and comfort operating in ambiguity
Ability to influence across functions and develop exceptional talent
Active user of AI tools and excited about how AI is changing software
Nice to Haves
Founder or early-stage startup experience
Experience designing AI-native, automation, or agentic systems
Experience building workflow or operations tooling
Experience leading managers or multi-layered teams
Comfort working closely with technical teams on implementation details
Benefi
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