# Director of Design, Ads Platform

**Company**: Reddit
**Location**: Remote - United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $245,800-$344,100 USD
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/7666317
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_05dc992f-b43

## Description

We are seeking a Director of Design to lead the experience for our Ads Platform pillar. As a high-impact role, you will be the design leader for the entire ads platform ecosystem, including the end-to-end experience of ads.reddit.com. Your work will be central to our goal of growing our base of active advertisers and defining the next set of industry-leading innovations inside of a rapidly growing ads business at Reddit.

## Responsibilities

- Strategic Design Leadership: Create and drive an end-to-end UX strategy for the Ads Platform that aligns with Reddit's mission.

- Product-Led Growth: Lead the design of features that drive self-service adoption, such as in-platform insights, recommendations, and advanced reporting insights.

- Organizational Scaling: Lead and manage a high-performing team of designers, fostering a culture of mentorship and craft excellence.

- Cross-Functional Impact: Partner deeply with Product and Research to drive platform-wide initiatives, ensuring that complex ad technology,such as Ads APIs, billing, and CRM tools,is accessible and user-centric.

- Operational Excellence: Own the quality of the advertiser experience and the efficiency of the design organization by enhancing design systems and high-impact delivery workflows.

- Executive Influence: Effectively communicate and influence at the executive level, serving as a subject matter expert on ad tech industry trends and user behavior.

- Change Management: Exhibit a 'Reddit-first' attitude, showing the ability to quickly pivot design functions to support rapidly changing business priorities and advertiser needs.

## Qualifications

- Experience: 10+ years of relevant design experience, with at least 5+ years managing teams of 10+ designers.

- Ad Tech Expertise: Deep functional knowledge of ads management platforms, including Campaign and Creative Management, Reporting/Insights, and Advertiser Growth or similarly complex sales or enterprise systems.

- Visionary Portfolio: A world-class portfolio demonstrating design strategy and systems for complex, professional-grade platforms at scale.

- Strategic Acumen: Proven experience driving company-wide initiatives (like AI-driven automation or business model shifts) with significant business impact.

- Ambiguity Leadership: Ability to build solutions from first principles in ambiguous situations and elevate the performance of the entire Leadership Team.

- User Empathy: A strong sense of empathy for the advertiser journey, balanced with a drive to ship the best possible product.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

- 401k with Employer Match

- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support

- Family Planning Support

- Gender-Affirming Care

- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off

- Generous Paid Parental Leave

## Skills

### Required
- design strategy
- UX design
- ad tech expertise
- team management
- cross-functional collaboration
- operational excellence
- executive influence
- change management