Director, Product Design

Who We Are Is What We Do

Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.

Who We Are Is What We Do

Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly. Among the largest globally distributed companies in the world, our team of 7,000 spans more than 100 countries, speaks 74 languages, and brings a connected and dynamic culture that drives continuous learning and innovation for our customers.

Why should you be part of our success story?

As the fastest-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company in history, Deel is transforming how global talent connects with world-class companies – breaking down borders that have traditionally limited both hiring and career opportunities. We're not just building software; we're creating the infrastructure for the future of work, enabling a more diverse and inclusive global economy. In 2024 alone, we paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies and provided healthcare and benefits to workers in 109 countries—ensuring people get paid and protected, no matter where they are.

Our momentum is reflected in our achievements and customer satisfaction: CNBC Disruptor 50, Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Fast 500, and repeated recognition on Y Combinator's top companies list – all while maintaining a 4.83 average rating from 15,000 reviews across G2, Trustpilot, Captera, Apple and Google.

Your experience at Deel will be a career accelerator. At the forefront of the global work revolution, you'll tackle complex challenges that impact millions of people's working lives. With our momentum—backed by a $17.3 billion valuation and $1 B in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just over five years—you'll drive meaningful impact while building expertise that makes you a sought-after leader in the transformation of global work.

The role

Deel started as a product. It's becoming a platform. Connectivity is where that shift gets built — and this is the role that owns how it feels, structurally and strategically, across the company.

You’ll set the design agenda for every surface that turns Deel from "a global HR system you log into" into "the operating system the rest of the world plugs into." That spans the APIs and developer experience external builders use to integrate with Deel, the Partners Portal that brings third-party developers and global enterprises into our ecosystem, the App Store where customers discover and adopt integrations, the internal admin tools our ops teams depend on, and Ops Connect — our AI-native customer surface where conversations become wikis, wikis become tickets, and tickets become resolved problems in real time.

This role is the epicenter of how the deel platform operates. From directing the platform to create and optimise our internal tooling and efficiency, impacting the vast majority of deel employees.

This role doesn't have a "main product." It has a thesis, and the mandate to make that thesis company policy: every great platform is the sum of its connections, and the design quality of those connections determines whether a platform compounds or stalls. You'll be the executive owner of that thesis, accountable for it in front of Product, Engineering, and company leadership.

What You'll Own

You’ll build and run a design organization — hiring, developing, designers across Developer Experience, Partners and App Ecosystem, Internal Tooling, and AI-powered customer surfaces (Ops Connect, Inbox, and what comes next). You'll set org-wide craft standards and operating rhythms, own headcount and org design for the group, and decide where to invest design capacity as the platform surface area grows. You stay close enough to the work to unblock a launch or reset a review and function as a domain lead.

You’ll sit with Product and Engineering leadership as a peer in shaping connectivity strategy — not just design's execution of it. Designing from the API into the end of the experience, where AI takes over and where humans stay in the loop, what an "app" inside Deel looks like a year and three years out: you co