# VP, User Experience **Company**: Later **Location**: Boston, MA; Chicago, Illinois, United States; Los Angeles, California, United States; New York, New York, United States; Remote; San Francisco, California, United States; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Vancouver, Washington, United States **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: executive **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $220,000 – $275,000 USD OTE (base + bonus) **Category**: Design **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/later/jobs/8726004002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_decd3d3e-a77 ## Description Later is seeking a Vice President, User Experience to lead design across its product portfolio, spanning Later Influence, Later Social, and Mavely. The successful candidate will build and lead a team of 5-6 UX designers, partnering closely with product managers and an engineering organization of 100+ developers to ship experiences that are cohesive, intuitive, and scalable across its lines of business. Responsibilities: - Embed directly as a hands-on, principal contributor on Later's most critical zero-to-one product bets, operating at the intersection of design, product strategy, and engineering execution. - Drive rapid, high-fidelity experimentation by turning abstract business requirements into functional prototypes, bypassing traditional wireframing phases to validate ideas immediately in the browser. - Act as the ultimate safeguard for user experience on flagship launches, jumping in with the team to unblock strategic initiatives through direct co-creation. - Translate business strategy and customer insight into a design roadmap that supports growth, stickiness, and commercial outcomes. - Identify and resolve structural gaps in the product experience that individual teams, working in isolation, would not catch. AI & Agentic Mastery: - Pioneer and execute agentic UX workflows, building functional AI prototypes that unify product design across Later Social, Later Influence, and Mavely. - Architect and codify the UI/UX patterns for human-in-the-loop interactions, AI trust mechanisms, and agentic failure states by actively building and testing prompts and context windows alongside engineering partners. - Integrate generative AI and computational design practices into the daily workflows of the product organization, setting the standard for how AI accelerates UX exploration and research synthesis. Leadership and Mentorship: - Lead, mentor, and elevate a high-performing team of UX designers by shifting the culture from traditional screen-design to an AI-native, builder-first mindset. - Upskill the design team in applied prompt engineering, computational design thinking, and the use of AI tools. - Replace standard administrative critique rituals with active build sessions, setting a relentless quality bar where the team is expected to rapidly turn ideas into near-working experiences rather than static mocks. - Recruit and develop design talent, building a bench that matches Later's growth trajectory. - Foster a culture of craft, curiosity, and ownership, ensuring the team is motivated and set up to do their best work. Cross-functional Partnership: - Partner closely with the CPO and CTO to align design investment with company priorities, and co-create the product and technology strategy, vision, and roadmap. - Accelerate delivery across the 100+ developer organization by implementing robust design tokens and AI-assisted design-to-code pipelines, removing the friction between design intent and shipped reality. - Partner deeply with the roughly 10 product managers to compress discovery cycles, using AI-driven usability analysis and rapid prototyping to materially shorten the path from customer problem to tested solution. - Co-author front-end architecture strategies with engineering leadership, ensuring UX standards are scalable, API-aware, and built on shared logic rather than fragmented static screens. - Represent design in company-wide planning and prioritization conversations, ensuring UX is a first-class input to roadmap decisions. Craft and Quality: - Set and hold the bar for design craft across the portfolio, from interaction design to visual polish. - Champion accessibility and usability best practices across every product surface. - Balance speed and quality, knowing when to push for polish and when to ship and iterate. Research and Insights: - Build a lightweight, repeatable approach to user research that keeps design decisions grounded in real customer and creator behavior. - Translate research and usage data into design priorities that connect to measurable product and business outcomes. - Make AI-assisted exploration, prototyping, research synthesis, usability analysis, and design-to-development workflows part of the team's operating model, materially shortening the path from customer problem to tested solution before significant engineering investment. - Model and drive a proactive, learning approach with internal stakeholders and customer and user personas, creating a culture of curiosity where the team becomes deeply familiar with customer and stakeholder workflows, pain points, and needs. What success looks like: - Within the first 30 days, you've met the design team, key PM and engineering partners, and have a clear read on where the product experience is strong and where it's fragmented. - Within 90 days, you've established a design operating rhythm (critique, planning, quality bar) and identified the first systems-level fix that will meaningfully improve consistency across product lines. - Within 6 months, a shared design system is in active use across teams, design is embedded early in product discovery, and AI-assisted prototyping and experimentation are materially accelerating the path from idea to validated experience. - Within 12 months, the UX team operates with clear ownership, predictable delivery, and measurable improvement in usability and consistency across Later's full product portfolio, and you're recognized as a trusted design voice at the leadership table. ## Skills ### Required - UX design - AI-assisted design - prototyping - design system - leadership - mentorship - communication ### Nice to have - B2B SaaS - marketplace - platform products - influencer marketing - creator economy - social/commerce adjacent spaces --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/later/jobs/8726004002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)