[Hiring] Senior Director, User Experience @Alteryx

Role Description

Alteryx is a leading AI-ready data and analytics company, bringing 25+ years of category-leading experience into the agentic AI era. More than 8,000 customers around the world rely on Alteryx to turn messy data into trusted, explainable decisions at scale. We're in the middle of an exciting shift: from workflows people run to agentic experiences that reason, act, and deliver outcomes on their behalf. Design is central to making that shift feel trustworthy, intuitive, and genuinely delightful, which is exactly what this role is here to lead.

This is a senior leadership role inside Alteryx's Experience & Insights organization, which also includes Customer Signals, Experience Foundations, and Content. The Senior Director of User Experience will directly manage the leaders of four product design teams — roughly 30 designers in total, spread across the globe — and will partner closely with cross-functional peers so design decisions are grounded in strategy, built on shared foundations, and delivered with real operational rigor.

The opportunity is to scale and elevate the work of the product design teams today while setting the vision for our future design state. We believe strong design leadership rests on three things:

• The ability to shape design and product strategy (increasingly, AI-powered and agentic product strategy)
• The discipline to run design as a scalable, measurable operation
• The people leadership skill to grow and unlock a talented global team

Qualifications

• 15+ years in product design, including 6+ years leading design managers or leads in a SaaS or enterprise software environment.
• A track record of leading multiple design teams at once across a broad product portfolio; experience with complex, technical, or data-heavy products is a strong plus.
• Genuine enthusiasm and point of view about designing AI-powered and agentic experiences.
• Demonstrated ability to operate across all levels, from shaping strategy with executives to reviewing craft and providing hands-on design feedback.
• Experience building and running design operations at scale: resourcing models, metrics, review cadences, and tooling.
• Experience managing distributed, global teams, with the cultural fluency to lead well across every time zone.
• Working knowledge of design systems, accessibility, and localization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and the ability to influence peers and executives without formal authority.
• A genuinely collaborative approach.

Requirements

• Evolve the design vision and strategy for Alteryx's product portfolio, focusing on AI-powered and agentic experiences.
• Represent design in senior leadership forums, advocating for user-centered outcomes.
• Partner with product management, engineering, and executive leadership to shape roadmaps and influence prioritization.
• Translate customer signals into design direction.
• Build and run the operating model for a 30-person, globally distributed design organization.
• Set clear, repeatable processes and expectations for design discovery and handoff to engineering.
• Establish design metrics and quality bars to demonstrate the team's impact.
• Champion the integration of AI across the design practice.
• Own budget, tooling, and contractor/vendor relationships supporting the design organization.
• Directly manage the four design leaders running each product design team.
• Continue building a culture of rigorous critique and high craft standards.
• Champion career paths, leveling, and growth plans for designers.
• Help the team blaze trails with AI, building their fluency and confidence.

Benefits

• Salary range for this role in the United States is $253,000 - $279,000.
• Eligible for a wide range of other benefits, such as a bonus or commission, medical, retirement, financial, wellness, time off, employee discounts, and others.