Senior Director of Design, Search & Feeds

The role

You will lead the experience strategy for Search and Feeds. You will lead a design team to shape how people find conversations, discover communities, and build connections.

What you will do

• Set the design vision for Search and Feeds.
• Lead and develop the design team including design leaders and individual contributors.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to identify opportunities and guide investment decisions.
• Drive interaction design, information architecture, and accessible experiences.
• Bring clarity and user control to ranking, personalization, and recommendations.
• Design for different discovery needs including specific answers and exploring new interests.
• Consider how search and feeds affect participation and community health.
• Use research, experimentation, and behavioral data to evaluate success.
• Communicate a clear point of view and build alignment across teams.

Required qualifications

• Experience leading design for complex consumer products at scale in search, discovery, feeds, recommendations, or related experiences.
• Track record of building and developing design teams, including managing managers and supporting individual contributors.
• Strong product judgment and ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear strategies.
• Deep expertise in interaction design and information architecture.
• Portfolio demonstrating design quality and measurable user impact.
• Experience partnering with Engineering, Product, Research, and Data Science on experiences shaped by ranking and personalization systems.
• Ability to balance user needs, business priorities, technical constraints, and product ecosystem health.
• Clear communication and ability to influence senior leaders and resolve competing priorities.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) program with employer match
• Generous time off for vacation
• Parental leave

Before you apply

• Interviews may be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI).
• You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

About the company

Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust. It is home to over 100,000 active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors.