AI at Zapier
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Job Posted : 11 / 3 / 2025
Location : North America (Canada & United States)
Hi there!
Heres the problem : AI automation should be everywhere in large companies by now. But its not. Every department wants itSales wants smarter lead routing Support wants autonomous ticket resolution Operations needs compliant workflowsbut automate this turns into six-month engineering projects.
Youll design the solution. We need a Lead Product Designer in our Enterprise Zone who can build the admin consoles governance frameworks and AI oversight tools that let enterprises deploy automation across thousands of employees without the chaos. Youll report to Paul Goodwin and work directly with product engineering sales and customer success to shape how major companies adopt and govern automation at scale.
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About You
Leading across teams and building consensus. You have 7 years designing for enterprises with demonstrated experience driving initiatives across multiple product areas aligning misaligned stakeholders and partnering with VP-level leadership on product direction. You present to executives navigate conflicting feedback from sales engineering and customer success and drive alignment when teams disagree.
Platform thinking and setting standards. You see how admin workspaces and observability connectand design systems that work cohesively across all of them. You establish design patterns governance frameworks and interaction models that other teams adopt and build on. Your work compounds value across the organization.
Enterprise complexity at scale. Youve shipped admin experiences RBAC systems audit trails or compliance features for thousands of users across multiple stakeholder groups (IT Security Compliance end users). You design governance and oversight experiences that help enterprises adopt AI confidentlybalancing democratized access with necessary controls and making complex systems like permissions provisioning and IDP mapping intuitive without oversimplifying what power users need.
Things Youll Do
Drive cross-zone design initiatives. Lead work across admin workspaces and observability surfaces. Navigate competing team priorities align misaligned stakeholders and establish shared direction that serves the platform. Transform requirements from sales conversations compliance audits and customer feedback into intuitive workflows that just make sense.
Partner with executive leadership and shape strategy. Present to executive stakeholders translate business strategy into design direction and influence company roadmap through research-backed design thinking. Lead cross-functional workshops and facilitate discovery that identifies strategic opportunities others miss.
Define AI governance UX and platform patterns. Design admin workflows policy management tools administrative AI agents and real-time risk detection that give IT leaders confidence at scale. Create design systems and governance frameworks that work for both 500-person startups and 100000-person enterprisesand that other teams build on.
Coach designers and build team capabilities. Help designers tackle enterprise complexity and level up on what makes enterprise design effective. Share your frameworks broadly and help the team grow.
What Youll Love About This Role
Strategic impact and real influence. Your designs directly drive Zapiers enterprise growth shape company strategy and close major deals. Youre defining how we think about enterprise design across the company.
Fascinating career-defining problems. Enterprise AI governance citizen development models administrative AI agents and organizational transformation are genuinely challenging design spaces at the forefront of where work is headed. Help establish industry-leading patterns.
Exceptional collaborators. Partner with product engineering and go-to-market teams who care deeply about outcomes and are building something genuinely differentiated.
How to Apply
At Zapier we believe that diverse perspectives and experiences make us better which is why we have a non-standard application process designed to promote inclusion and equity. Were looking for the best fit for each of our roles regardless of the type of companies in your background so we encourage you to apply even if your skills and experiences dont exactly match the job description. All we ask is that you answer a few in-depth questions in our application that would typically be asked at the start of an interview process. This helps speed things up by letting us get to know you and your skillset a bit better right out of the gate. Please be sure to answer each question; the resume and CV fields are optional.
Education is not a requirement for our roles; however if you receive an offer you will need to include your most recent educational experience as part of our background check process.
After you apply you are going to hear back from useven if we dont see an immediate fit with our fact throughout the process we strive to never go more than seven days without letting you know the status of your application. We know well make mistakes from time to time so if you ever have questions about where you stand or about the process just ask your recruiter!
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Key Skills
InVision,Interaction Design,Ux,Usability,Visual Design,Design Thinking,Zeplin,User Research,UI,IOS,Figma,Sketch
Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience : years
Vacancy : 1
Monthly Salary Salary : 187 - 281
Lead Product Designer • San Francisco, California, USA