About the Role
The IQ Design team creates simple, delightful, and transformative user experiences, exploring what computing looks like when it truly works for people. This design-led group drives product development, with a focus on quality and user advocacy. The Director of Digital Product Design will lead a team of senior designers and design engineers, setting creative direction and shaping team culture. This role requires staying close to the work, fostering a culture of rapid prototyping and deep craft, and understanding how AI is reshaping design practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead, hire, and grow a team of senior product designers, design engineers, and intelligent systems designers working across HP's software experiences
- Define and evolve the creative direction for software design across HP's current and future product lines
- Build team culture intentionally: critique practices, collaboration norms, and creative rituals that bring out the best in your people
- Drive the design point of view, ensuring experience quality is a first-class priority
- Partner with engineering, AI/ML, hardware, and product leadership to ensure design appropriately shapes the work from strategy through shipping
- Create space for deep exploratory work while maintaining accountability for shipping cadence and product quality
- Guide the team's adoption of AI-native design workflows, helping designers and design engineers integrate LLMs and generative tools into prototyping, iteration, and production
- Mentor leads and seniors, supporting their growth and helping them navigate ambiguity
- Champion design craft across the organization, including motion, typography, and micro-interactions
- Represent the team's work and perspective to senior leadership, translating design decisions into language that builds organizational conviction
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in digital product design, with at least 3 years managing and growing design teams
- A portfolio (or body of work) that demonstrates both personal design excellence and the ability to elevate the output of a team
- Proven experience shipping AI-powered or otherwise technically complex consumer products
- Working knowledge of LLMs, how they work, what they're good at, where they break down, and a clear point of view on how tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and similar AI-assisted workflows are reshaping the practice of software design
- Strong technical fluency; ability to have substantive conversations with engineers about architecture, feasibility, and implementation tradeoffs
- Track record of building healthy, high-performing team cultures where people do career-defining work
- Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to bring clarity and direction to undefined problem spaces
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to build conviction across disciplines and levels of seniority
Skills
- Digital product design
- Team management
- Creative direction
- AI-powered product design
- LLM knowledge
- Generative AI tools
- Technical fluency
- Team culture building
- Communication
- Storytelling
- Prototyping (SwiftUI, React, Origami, AI, web technologies)
- Design systems
- Motion design
- Computational design
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-Time
Experience Level
- Director
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $220,000 - $280,000
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Long term/short term disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Life insurance
- Generous time off policies
- 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
- 11 paid holidays
- Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave
About the Company
- HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab, combining startup agility with HP’s global scale.
- We're building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates.
- We are assembling a diverse, world-class team focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio.
- We develop intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless.
- We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset.
- By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work.
- Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work.
Equal Opportunity
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