Purpose in Every Position.
At Velocity Global, we believe that success knows no borders—and it’s built by teams working together across them. Our unified, tech-enabled platform empowers businesses to hire, pay, and support talent in 185+ countries, making global growth not just possible, but seamless. Behind every expansion and every solution is a spirit of collaboration between our teams and the companies we serve. With AI-powered tools and human-first service, we simplify the complexity of global workforce management so businesses can focus on what matters: their people, their purpose, and their potential.
Where Your Work Moves the Needle.
At Velocity Global, every team member helps shape our success. When you join us, you don’t just fill a role—you live our values. They guide how we work, collaborate, and make an impact across borders. By bringing these principles to life, you’ll help us grow stronger, move faster, and lead the future of global work.
As our Director, Product Design, you will play a mission-critical role in uniting design excellence with technical execution. Reporting directly to our CTPO, you will drive the technical design strategy across our platform, helping ensure our solutions are scalable, cohesive, and user-centric. This is a high-impact leadership role that blends systems thinking, architecture, and hands-on collaboration across Product, Engineering, and Design.
You will help shape the future of how companies and talent connect globally—through elegant, technically sound design.
What Makes You a Great Fit- Lead Technical Design Strategy: Own and evolve our technical design approach in collaboration with cross-functional leaders to support platform scalability, speed, and user delight.
- Build Design Infrastructure: Drive the creation and maintenance of our design systems, component libraries, and patterns that balance innovation with implementation feasibility.
- Bridge Disciplines: Serve as the connective tissue between design and engineering—translating product intent into technically viable solutions that are both beautiful and performant.
- Drive Quality and Consistency: Establish standards and processes that ensure a consistent, accessible, and high-quality user experience across our global platform.
- Mentor & Influence: Coach and uplift designers and engineers around technical design principles, building a culture of craft, accountability, and innovation.
- Shape Strategy: Partner closely with the CTPO and executive stakeholders to align technical design direction with business priorities and long-term architectural vision.
- Stay Ahead: Identify and integrate emerging tools, technologies, and frameworks that will future-proof our design practice and platform architecture.
- 8+ years of experience in product or UX design, with a strong emphasis on systems thinking and technical collaboration.
- 3+ years in a design leadership role, preferably within a fast-paced SaaS or platform-based environment.
- Solid technical fluency—able to engage meaningfully with engineering teams and understand implementation tradeoffs.
- Deep experience with design systems, scalable UI architecture, and component-based front-end development (e.g., React, Storybook, Figma).
- Strong portfolio demonstrating design leadership across complex, global platforms.
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The base pay depends upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified.
Our Commitment to You
At Velocity Global, we’re committed to supporting our team with comprehensive rewards and benefits designed to meet diverse needs across roles and locations. Our core offerings include:
- Flexible Time Off – Take the time you need to recharge.
- Parental Leave – Support for growing families.
- Health and Dental Insurance – Where applicable, to cover you and your loved ones.
- Retirement Savings + Employee Incentive Plan – Plan for the future while sharing our success.
Please visit our career page for more information.
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What We Do
Velocity Global accelerates the future of work for anyone, anywhere, anyhow. Its Global Work Platform™ simplifies the employer and talent experience through its proprietary cloud-based talent management technology, backed by personalized expertise and unmatched global scale. The platform offers a full suite of talent solutions, including global Employer of Record and Contractor Management, to help companies onboard, manage, and pay talent in more than 185 countries and all 50 United States.
Founded in 2014, the company has hundreds of employees across six continents, with plans to double in size in 2022.
As a work anywhere company, Velocity Global employees can create a work experience to fit their lifestyle, giving them the freedom to pursue their passion without the hassle of long commutes, rigid schedules and overlapping work-life demands. We empower people to live life fully, supported by a dynamic culture, growth opportunities and unique benefits. In the words of our founder, Ben Wright: “Professional experiences of a lifetime start here.”
