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# Director of Product Design at Replit

- **Company:** [Replit](https://feeny.ai/companies/replit)
- **Location:** Foster City, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/replit/b386f0ef-41e1-48e4-abe3-d35ce627de95

## Job description

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.

We're looking for a Director, Product Design to lead the day-to-day operations of Replit's Product Design organization, reporting to the Co-Founder & Head of Design.

This is a true player-coach role for someone who loves building products as much as leading people. You'll lead and develop a talented team of product designers while remaining deeply embedded in the work itself. You'll whiteboard with designers, navigate complex product decisions.

The Co-Founder & Head of Design remains closely involved in design critique and product quality. Your role is to lead the day-to-day design organization by creating the structure, alignment, and momentum that enable exceptional work. You'll stay two to three layers deeper than the Co-Founder & Head of Design on active initiatives, surfacing the context, tradeoffs, and insights needed to make thoughtful decisions without requiring constant immersion in every project.

Success in this role requires exceptional product judgment, strong design taste, technical fluency, and a collaborative approach. You're someone who naturally connects disciplines, elevates the people around you, and makes both the work and the team better every day.

## IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL

- Lead the day-to-day operations of Replit's Product Design organization, ensuring work is aligned, prioritized, and delivered to an exceptionally high standard.
- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of product designers, helping them grow their craft, confidence, and impact.
- Shape and elevate the customer journey
- Work alongside designers every day by whiteboarding ideas, exploring alternatives, reviewing work in progress, and solving complex product and interaction challenges.
- Stay deeply informed across active initiatives, surfacing the context and insights that enable the Co-Founder & Head of Design to engage quickly in meaningful design critique and high-impact product decisions.
- Raise the quality of product design through thoughtful feedback, exceptional craft, and strong design taste.
- Help evolve Replit's design practices, workflows, and team culture while preserving the speed and flexibility of a high-growth company.
- Recruit, hire, and onboard exceptional product design talent as the organization grows.

## WHO YOU ARE

You're a builder first and a manager second.

You enjoy being close to the work, helping designers think through difficult problems, and making good teams even better. You're equally comfortable sketching ideas on a whiteboard, giving thoughtful design feedback, coaching a designer through a difficult challenge, or partnering with engineering on implementation details.

You combine exceptional product judgment with strong design taste and technical fluency. You're collaborative, humble, curious, and energized by helping great work happen.

## EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

- Significant experience leading product design teams within high-growth technology companies.
- Proven ability to balance people leadership with meaningful hands-on product design contribution.
- A portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft, interaction design, product thinking, and systems thinking.
- Experience partnering closely with Product and Engineering to deliver technically sophisticated products.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional product development in fast-moving environments.
- Exceptional communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong design taste, sound judgment, and a bias toward action.
- Experience simplifying complex technical products into elegant, approachable user experiences.

## NICE TO HAVE

- Experience designing developer tools, technical products, or software creation platforms.
- Experience building AI-powered products or AI-native workflows.
- Coding experience or strong technical curiosity.
- Experience growing design teams in startup or scale-up environments.
- Active use of AI throughout your design process.

## WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT

This isn't a traditional design leadership role.

We're looking for someone who thrives in the work, not above it. Someone who enjoys solving problems alongside designers, building strong partnerships across Product and Engineering, and bringing the depth of context that allows the Co-Founder & Head of Design to focus on the moments where their perspective has the greatest impact.

This is a role for someone who is excited by complex product challenges, passionate about developing exceptional designers, and motivated by building products that make powerful technology feel intuitive.

This is a full-time role that can be held from our Foster City, CA office. The role has an in-office requirement of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Full-Time Employee Benefits Include:

💰 Competitive Salary & Equity

💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)

⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance

🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability

🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave

🏝 Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays

🚗 Commuter Benefits (In-Office & US Only)

📱 Monthly Wellness Stipend

🧑‍💻 Autonomous Work Environment

🖥 In Office Set-Up Reimbursement (In-Office Only)

🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings

☕ In Office Amenities (In-Office Only)

Want to learn more about what we are up to?

- Self-driving Company https://replit.com/blog/self-driving-company
- Replit Agent at Scale https://replit.com/blog/evaluating-and-improving-agent-at-scale
- AI Adoption https://replit.com/blog/ai-adoption
- Build Open-Source Apps https://replit.com/build/open-source-app-builder

Interviewing + Culture at Replit

- Operating Principles https://blog.replit.com/operating-principles
- Reasons not to work at Replit https://blog.replit.com/reasons-not-to-join-replit

To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.

## About Replit

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Replit is an agentic creation platform that enables anyone to turn ideas into real, working software using AI-powered tools, a collaborative browser-based IDE, and full-stack infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D)
- **Headquarters**: Foster City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Amjad Masad, Haya Odeh, Faris Masad

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Developer Tools, AI-Powered Software Development, Cloud-Based IDE
- Target customers: Individual developers, learners, non-programmers, enterprise teams (B2B, B2C)
- Mission or purpose statement: To empower one billion creators by making software creation more accessible, immediate, and real, regardless of technical background.

## Products & Services
- **Replit Agent (Agent 4)**: An AI agent that writes production-ready code, evolves it, and handles the coordination and execution of building apps. Users describe and publish projects using natural language.
- **Collaborative IDE**: A browser-based, full-stack integrated development environment that allows real-time coding and collaboration, with no local setup required.
- **Replit Platform (Core)**: A full-stack cloud solution including built-in services for Authentication, Database, Hosting, and Monitoring, enabling scalable app development from day one.
- **Integrations**: Connects to 100+ services and APIs, including OpenAI, Stripe, and Google Workspace.
- **Enterprise Controls**: Features include SSO/SAML, SOC 2 compliance, admin controls, and secure screening services.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (Series D)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $872M raised (as of latest Series D); over 50 million users on the platform.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not detailed in search results, but the company is well-funded at the Series D stage with a strong investor base.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 50 million creators on the platform; rapid adoption of AI Agent capabilities; expansion into enterprise with Forward Deployed Engineering; active hiring across 28+ open roles as of mid-2026.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agentic Creation**: The "Agent 4" feature allows non-programmers to build and ship software through natural language, radically lowering the barrier to entry.
- **All-in-One Platform**: Combines IDE, AI, hosting, database, authentication, and monitoring in a single, browser-based environment, eliminating setup friction.
- **Full-Stack Infrastructure**: Offers scalable services (Auth, DB, Hosting) that work out of the box, enabling rapid prototyping and deployment without DevOps overhead.
- **Massive User Base**: 50M+ creators provide a strong network effect and a rich ecosystem for learning and sharing.

## Strategic Focus
- **Democratizing Software Creation**: Focus on making software creation as intuitive as using a smartphone, targeting the "next billion creators" beyond traditional developers.
- **AI-Native Development**: Prioritizing AI agents (Agent 4) that handle complex coding and coordination, allowing humans to focus on ideas and planning.
- **Enterprise Adoption**: Building enterprise-grade security (SOC 2, SSO) and dedicated Forward Deployed Engineering teams to capture business customers.
- **Platform Ecosystem**: Expanding integrations and third-party services to make the platform a central hub for all software creation needs.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a place for "builders who care about craft, speed, and making things that matter." The company values "ideas first. Proof matters. Momentum wins."
- **Work Style**: "In person, on purpose." Replit emphasizes working from its HQ in Foster City, believing that proximity accelerates decisions and improves work quality. It operates a hybrid model with a strong in-office expectation.
- **Compensation & Benefits**:
    - Competitive salary, equity, and performance bonus
    - Health, dental, and vision insurance with HSA contributions ($2k individual / $4k family)
    - 24 weeks paid birth-parent leave; 12 weeks paid bonding and family care leave
    - 401K with company matching
    - $1,000 annual learning & development reimbursement
    - Monthly wellness stipend, commuter benefits, and in-office meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
    - Flexible time off and paid sick leave
- **Engineering Culture**: Strong emphasis on building resilient, scalable systems (Kubernetes, GCP). Roles like Staff Infrastructure Engineer and GRC Engineer indicate a mature, security-conscious engineering environment.

## Sources
1. [replit.com/careers](https://replit.com/careers)
2. [replit.com/about](https://replit.com/about)
3. [replit.com](https://replit.com/)
4. [tryjeremy.com/companies/replit](https://tryjeremy.com/companies/replit)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/replit](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/replit)

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