Senior Director of UX Product Design

About the team: At Apollo product design is led by an accomplished team with decades of experience from some of the world’s most influential product organizations — including Atlassian Google PayPal Intuit Amazon and Meta. Collectively we’ve shaped and defined the experiences across category-defining SaaS tools scaled global systems and built high-performing teams that elevate the impact and culture of design across organizations.

Our vision is to build the most customer-obsessed data-driven and human-centered design organization in SaaS — one that integrates the power of AI to elevate Apollo’s product and set a new standard for go-to-market software design.

About the Role

As Senior Director of UX Product Design you’ll lead and scale a best-in-class design team focused on creating a seamless end-to-end experience across Apollo’s platform. This is a high-impact strategic role that will define our design vision drive operational excellence and partner cross-functionally to deliver intuitive elegant and scalable solutions that accelerate both customer and business outcomes.

By joining us you’ll help shape not only the future of Apollo but also the intersection of AI and design — creating intelligent forward-looking experiences that empower people and redefine what’s possible in enterprise software.

What You’ll Do-

Design Leadership & Vision

• Define and drive a cohesive UX strategy and design vision across Apollo’s GTM platform.

• Champion user-centered design and advocate for experiences that are simple intuitive and outcome-oriented.

• Raise the bar for design quality across interaction visual and system design.

• Leverage emerging technologies and AI to improve product usability productivity and customer satisfaction.

• Translate complex workflows into seamless scalable experiences that drive retention and growth.

People & Organizational Leadership

• Lead recruit and mentor a team of best-in-class designers and design leaders.

• Foster a collaborative high-performing design culture grounded in creativity accountability and continuous learning.

• Build strong partnerships across Product Engineering Analytics and Research to drive clarity efficiency and shared ownership of the customer experience.

• Establish frameworks for team development career progression and leadership growth.

Strategic Collaboration & Impact

• Align design strategy with company goals to ensure UX drives measurable business outcomes.

• Partner with cross-functional leaders to integrate design into product planning roadmaps and delivery.

• Champion the role of design in driving product-market fit customer delight and operational scale.

• Establish clear ux success metrics and measure design’s impact on engagement conversion and retention.

Execution & Operational Excellence

• Oversee the design process from discovery to delivery ensuring consistency quality and velocity.

• Strengthen design systems via contributions workflows and operational frameworks to improve scale and speed.

• Ensure the team delivers high-quality on-brand solutions that embody Apollo’s standards of craft and usability.

• Drive continuous improvement through feedback data and iteration.

What You Bring:

• 12+ years in Product/UX Design including 5+ years leading high-performing teams.

• Proven success building and scaling design organizations in SaaS or enterprise environments.

• Experience leading large-scale end-to-end design initiatives that demonstrate measurable business impact.

• Strong systems thinking storytelling and communication skills — able to influence and align at all levels.

• Deep understanding of design operations UX metrics and experience-led growth.

• Expertise in modern design tools AI-driven experiences and responsive platforms.

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Interaction Design HCI or a related field.

Outcomes You’ll Drive:

• Establish and execute a design vision that connects end-to-end user journeys.

• Build and grow a high-performing design organization grounded in collaboration craft and impact.

• Deliver measurable improvements in product usability customer satisfaction and retention.

• Create scalable systems and frameworks that enable speed and consistency across the product.

• Foster a culture of excellence innovation and user empathy that permeates across teams.

The listed Pay Range reflects base salary range except for sales roles the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ('OTE') range meaning that the range includes both the sales commission/sales bonus targets and annual base salary for the role. This pay range may be inclusive of several career levels at Apollo and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors including the candidate’s experience qualifications and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include equity; company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; at least 10 paid holidays per year flex PTO and parental leave; employee assistance program and wellbeing benefits; global travel coverage; life/AD&D/STD/LTD insurance; FSA/HSA and medical dental and vision benefits.

Annual Pay Range

$246500—$350000 USD