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# Head of Design at HackerRank Careers

- **Company:** HackerRank Careers
- **Location:** IN Bangalore, India
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hackerrank/jobs/8093648

## Job description

HackerRank helps companies like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft hire and upskill the next generation of developers based on skills, not pedigree. Our platform is trusted by over 2,500 of the world’s most innovative companies to build strong engineering teams ready for what’s next.

Software has entered an era where humans and AI build side by side. As this shift accelerates, the definition of strong technical talent is changing. We give companies better ways to identify and invest in next-generation skills.

People at HackerRank care deeply about the impact of their work and sweat the small details so our customers can be wildly successful with products they genuinely love to use. We move with urgency and believe great outcomes come from high standards.

## The role

HackerRank is hiring a Head of Design to define and own the experience for our platform and lead the organization responsible for delivering it. You will guide both traditional product experiences and emerging AI-native and agentic experiences, through a team of product designers and design managers.

As a member of Product, Engineering, and Design Leadership, you will serve as a strategic leader in the company. This role requires executive range and practitioner instincts. You should be able to move from an organizational question to a product strategy discussion, then into a working prototype or detailed interaction review without losing the thread between them. All of our leaders are builders.

## What you will own

- Set experience strategy. Define the design vision for HackerRank’s platform and turn company strategy into a clear experience direction. Connect near-term product decisions to a coherent view of where technical hiring and developer skills are going. Keep the organization close to customers and developers, using research, product data, prototypes, and direct observation to shape the work.
- Drive AI and agentic fluency. Shape how people interact with AI across the platform, from embedded intelligence to autonomous agents. Establish rigor around AI experience evals, agentic specifications, and emerging interaction practices. Set the expectation that designers experiment with models, agents, and code-adjacent tools—and model that behavior yourself.
- Be the quality bar. Raise the quality and coherence of HackerRank’s end-to-end experience. Guide the information architecture, workflows, interaction patterns, and systems that make the platform feel like one product. Have a clear point of view on what good looks like, make that standard practical, and raise the quality of everything HackerRank ships.Drive strategic partnership. Operate as a peer to Product and Engineering leadership. Shape product strategy, investment priorities, and roadmaps; clarify the problems worth solving; and make the trade-offs required to balance customer value, technical reality, speed, and long-term platform quality.Build and lead the team. Lead an organization that includes product designers and design managers. Hire and develop strong leaders, establish clear ownership, raise the quality of critique and decision-making, and create an environment where designers can move quickly without lowering the bar.

## How you will lead

We expect you to get close to the work. You see yourself as a maker who can lead others through ambiguity, and you proactively spend time building with models and agents and shipping your work.

You do not need to be a production engineer. You do need enough technical curiosity and fluency to prototype alongside engineers, explore ideas with modern AI and coding tools, and understand how model behavior, architecture, latency, cost, data, and evaluation shape the experience.

You should be comfortable developing your own perspective on the product and market. You can communicate that perspective clearly to non-designers and build support for improvements across the experience, from broad product strategy to the smallest interaction details.

You have led senior designers and design managers, and you know how to raise the quality of the work without slowing the team down. Build early. Put ideas in front of customers. Learn from real behavior. Refine from evidence.

## Requirements and experience we are looking for

- A portfolio or body of work that demonstrates strong judgment, leadership, and high-quality execution. Show us what shipped, what changed, and the role you played.
- Significant product design experience, including ownership of complex products or platforms and several years leading designers and design managers.
- A track record of building and developing strong design organizations, including hiring senior talent, coaching managers, clarifying ownership, and improving the overall caliber of the team.
- Experience partnering with senior Product and Engineering leaders to shape strategy, prioritize investments, and turn ambiguous opportunities into shipped products.
- Direct experience delivering AI-powered products, agentic experiences, or other non-deterministic systems.
- A hands-on approach. You enjoy getting into the work, making ideas tangible, and helping teams ship stronger results.
- Fluency with modern design and prototyping tools, including demonstrated use of AI, code-adjacent tools, or working software to explore and communicate ideas. Framer experience is a plus.

Want to learn more about HackerRank? Check out [HackerRank.com](http://hackerrank.com/) to explore our products, solutions and resources, and dive into our story and mission [here](https://www.hackerrank.com/about-us/).

HackerRank is a proud equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. We provide equal opportunity to everyone for employment based on individual performance and qualification. We never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Notice to prospective HackerRank job applicants:

- Our Recruiters use @hackerrank.com email addresses.
- We never ask for payment or credit check information to apply, interview, or work here.

## About HackerRank Careers

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: HackerRank is a skills-based hiring platform that helps companies assess and hire developers through coding challenges and technical interviews, while also nurturing a massive developer community focused on upskilling.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, $60M led by Susquehanna Growth Equity in March 2022)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Clara, California, USA (global offices also in Bangalore, India, with remote teammates across the US, UK, and India)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available from provided sources (commonly reported as 2012)
- **Founders**: Vivek Ravisankar and Hari Karunanidhi

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: HR tech / Talent assessment / Developer skills evaluation
- **Target customers**: B2B – companies of all sizes hiring developers; also B2C – developers seeking to improve their skills and find jobs
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Change the world to value skills over pedigree.”

## Products & Services
- **[HackerRank Platform](https://www.hackerrank.com)**: A SaaS-based assessment platform that enables companies to screen and interview developers using coding challenges, automated evaluations, and technical interview tools. Includes a library of over 188 million skill assessment data points and supports 26M+ developers in the community.
- **[Chakra (AI Interviewer)](https://builtin.com/company/hackerrank/jobs)**: An AI-powered interviewer being developed to conduct conversational interviews, focusing on conversation management, evaluation methodologies, and quality at scale (mentioned in job postings for Machine Learning Engineer, Chakra).
- **Expanded Assessments**: Beyond software development, HackerRank is building assessments for skills in hardware, design, QA, and soft skills (e.g., for distributed teams).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (last known funding round: $60M Series D in March 2022)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $60M+ (Series D led by Susquehanna Growth Equity); prior rounds include $3M Series A
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Susquehanna Growth Equity (lead in Series D)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Over 26 million developers in the community
  - 2,500+ customers
  - 172,800 daily skill assessments submitted
  - 188 million+ data points on technical skill assessments
  - Expanding into new assessment areas (machine learning, blockchain, crypto, hardware, design, QA, soft skills)
  - Developing an AI interviewer (Chakra) to scale interviews
  - 18 million+ developers in the community (as of earlier data point)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Developer skills authority**: Massive dataset of 188M+ skill assessments provides unique insights into developer capabilities.
- **Community network effects**: 26M+ developers use the platform, attracting more companies and creating a virtuous cycle.
- **Developer-first mindset**: Products are built from the perspective of enabling developers to be their best, which resonates with both candidates and hiring teams.
- **AI-powered innovation**: Chakra AI interviewer aims to automate and scale high-quality technical interviews, differentiating from traditional coding assessment platforms.
- **Brand credibility**: Trusted by thousands of companies; known for moving hiring away from resume-based pedigree toward skills-based evaluation.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-driven assessment**: Investing heavily in Chakra, an AI interviewer that can conduct structured, high-quality interviews at scale.
- **Expanding skill coverage**: Broadening assessments beyond software development to include hardware, design, QA, and soft skills to support the needs of distributed teams.
- **Global reach**: Continuing to grow the developer community and customer base internationally, with relocation support for key roles in Santa Clara and Bangalore.
- **Data-driven hiring**: Leveraging its massive dataset to improve the accuracy and fairness of assessments.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: “Change the world to value skills over pedigree” – the team is passionate about making hiring more equitable.
- **Values**: Think developer-first, be the captain (ownership), go deep, be humble, truly care.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid, on-site, and remote roles available depending on the position. Offices in Santa Clara and Bangalore, with teammates across the US, UK, and India.
- **Hiring process**: Fast – typically a few days to two weeks. Includes technical assessments, interviews with the hiring manager and future teammates, and a HackerValues interview. Relocation support provided for in-office roles.
- **Benefits**: Competitive pay and meaningful equity, health coverage for you and family, retirement plans by region, flexible paid time off, home office/remote work stipends, mental health and well-being support, annual learning and growth budget, referral bonuses.
- **Engineering culture**: High bar for quality, speed and quality are not trade-offs; focus on craft and impact. Teams work on cutting-edge AI and large-scale data systems.
- **Growth opportunities**: Fast-growing company with active roles in machine learning, data engineering, security, product management, and customer success.

## Sources
1. [hackerrank.com/careers/home](https://www.hackerrank.com/careers/home)
2. [hackerrank.com/about-us](https://www.hackerrank.com/about-us)
3. [linkedin.com/company/hackerrank](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hackerrank)
4. [builtin.com/company/hackerrank/jobs](https://builtin.com/company/hackerrank/jobs)
5. [builtin.com/company/hackerrank/faq/workplace-perception](https://builtin.com/company/hackerrank/faq/workplace-perception)

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