Lead Product Designer

Alteryx is seeking a Lead Product Designer who will guide product vision and drive high-quality design across multiple teams. This role involves strategic design leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring junior designers to create user-centered experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Design Leadership
• Drive end-to-end design for major initiatives
• Translate insights into product direction and scalable UX
• Work with product and engineering leadership to define and communicate long term vision
• Cross Functional Collaboration and Influence
• Communicate design direction through clear storytelling, visual concepts, and narrative artifacts
• Drive alignment between executives, product leaders, and delivery teams
• Facilitate conversations that create clarity around scope, tradeoffs, and user needs
• Influence product strategy beyond your immediate team and help set org level experience goals
• Mentor junior designers and model effective collaboration
• Elevate design quality and evolve our processes
• Establish documentation standards and QA touchpoints
• Execution & Visual Design
• Create storyboards, high fidelity mocks, prototypes, and system diagrams to communicate ideas
• Explore new patterns, technologies, and industry trends to inform design direction
• Balance multiple projects while maintaining clarity, quality, and forward progress

Requirements:

• 6–10 years of experience designing complex, user-facing products
• Proficient with Figma
• Lead design critiques, provide feedback, and help raise the quality bar across the org
• Improve team processes, including documentation, workflow practices, and quality checks
• Skilled in systems thinking and information architecture
• Able to work in both structured enterprise environments and fast moving startup conditions
• Strategic, hands-on, and growth-minded
• Led or helped evolve design systems
• Shaped multi-pillar initiatives
• Experience working with AI powered workflows or complex data systems
• Used storytelling, vision concepts, or future state prototypes to drive organizational alignment