Senior Director, Design

The role

The Senior Director, Design owns the design infrastructure, systems, and visual language for the customer-facing platform. This role leads the in-house design function and manages the quality and performance of design across the site and app.

What you will do

• Own RTR's design systems and visual language implementation across site, app, email, and internal tools.
• Lead the end-to-end UX and product design function.
• Integrate AI tools into everyday workflows to drive efficiency and quality.
• Drive product design for AI-enabled initiatives including discovery, fit recommendations, and PDP design.
• Build and develop a high-performing, multi-disciplinary design team.
• Establish and maintain design quality standards and review processes.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Channel Revenue on roadmap planning and product decisions.
• Collaborate with Brand Creative on handoffs between brand-level design and platform implementation.
• Manage design vendors, tools, and operational infrastructure.
• Represent design's strategic perspective to leadership.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of design experience with demonstrated leadership of multi-disciplinary design teams.
• Experience building or significantly evolving a design system in a consumer-facing product environment.
• Strong product design instincts.
• Experience designing for complex user journeys, checkout flows, personalization experiences, and discovery surfaces.
• Understanding of how AI is changing the product design landscape and how to integrate AI-powered features.
• Skilled cross-functional partner.
• Experience building and scaling design organizations, including developing direct reports and creating career frameworks.
• Ability to bring clarity and structure to ambiguous situations.

Nice to have

• Experience in fashion, retail, or a direct-to-consumer platform

Benefits

• Paid Time Off, including vacation, paid bereavement, and family sick leave
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, FSA and dependent care from day 1
• 401(k) match
• Exclusive employee subscription and rental discounts
• Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents + flexible return to work program
• Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service
• Company-wide events and outings

About the company

Rent the Runway (RTR) is a circular fashion brand that offers designer apparel and accessories via subscription, one-time rental, or ownership. The company has built in-house proprietary technology and a unique reverse logistics operation.