Senior Director of Design, Search & Feeds

Details

Reddit is looking for a Senior Director of Design to lead the experience strategy for its Search & Feeds experiences. Reporting to the Head of Design, this role will lead a design team shaping how people find relevant conversations, discover communities, and build connections to topics they care about. The role spans product vision, design leadership, and design quality, with close collaboration across Product, Engineering, Research, and Data Science.

Responsibilities

• Set the design vision for Search & Feeds, including search, feed experiences, recommendations, and community discovery.
• Lead and develop design leaders and individual contributors, establish clear ownership, and foster an environment for ambitious work and growth.
• Shape product direction by identifying opportunities, establishing priorities, and guiding investment decisions based on user needs and business goals.
• Raise the bar for interaction design, information architecture, accessibility, and execution from early concepts through launch.
• Make ranking, personalization, and recommendations understandable while providing users with clarity and control over what they see.
• Design for different discovery needs, including finding specific answers, exploring new interests, and returning to existing communities.
• Consider how search and feeds affect participation, conversation quality, and community health.
• Use research, experimentation, and behavioral data to measure usefulness, satisfaction, and discovery quality alongside engagement.
• Influence teams across Reddit by communicating a clear point of view, building alignment, and contributing to design standards and practices.

Requirements

• Experience leading design for complex consumer products at scale, with meaningful work in search, discovery, feeds, recommendations, or related experiences.
• Experience building and developing design teams, including managing managers and supporting individual contributors.
• Strong product judgment and the ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear strategies and compelling experiences.
• Deep expertise in interaction design and information architecture, with a 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 the health of a broader product ecosystem.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to influence senior leaders, resolve competing priorities, and make decisions with incomplete information.
• Appreciation for community-driven products and the different ways people seek information, participate, and build trust online.

Benefits

• Equity in the form of restricted stock units.
• Depending on the position offered, eligibility for a commission.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for U.S.-based employees.
• 401(k) program with employer match.
• Generous vacation time and parental leave.
• Reddit is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.

Additional Information

Interviews for select roles and locations may be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by artificial intelligence, with the option to opt out before scheduled interviews. Reddit collects identifiers, professional and employment-related information, sensory information from audio or video recordings, and other information candidates choose to share for employment evaluation purposes.

The base salary range is $317,000–$443,800 USD. Final offers may vary based on skills, experience, and relevant licenses or credentials.