Head of Design and Research

At Asana, we are designing the future of teamwork. We are building a whole new category of tools made for this moment and inventing new ways for every team in the world to work together effortlessly. 

We are a design-driven product and a product-driven organization looking for an exceptional design leader, with strong design and business acumen, to head our design and research teams. In this role, you’ll report directly to Asana’s Head of Product  and lead design excellence across the company. We need someone who enables their team’s full potential through their insightful vision, clear direction, and meaningful collaboration with our customers and partners while supporting, nurturing, and scaling a healthy design org. You will co-create a standard of design excellence across all platforms including web and mobile. In setting a vision for the organization, you will develop a culture of excellence, grow leaders, and inspire innovation. Together, we will create valuable customer experiences that propel us toward our mission: to help humanity thrive by enabling the world’s teams to work together effortlessly.

This role is based in our San Francisco or New York office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.

About the design team

We design the future of teamwork. Asana has a bold, ambitious mission: help humanity thrive by enabling the world’s teams to work together effortlessly. Our design team is at the heart of that mission.

Asana Design is an inclusive and collaborative community. We’re a diverse group of designers from different backgrounds (product, brand and content design, design operations, producers, motion design, film, copywriting). We are a team that loves combining research, data insights, and peer feedback into a human-centered design process to produce designs that are core to the power of our applications. We partner with people across Asana to create our product, shape our brand, and drive greater impact through design. We use design to solve challenges and create experiences that customers love. We also take the time to get weird and have fun along the way.

We believe every designer should have the opportunity to grow and learn by utilizing their strengths and nurturing their interests.

Learn more about our team

• Asana Design
• Asana Design Medium
• Asana Design Instagram
• Asana Design Twitter
• Asana Dribbble

Asana culture 

• Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging
• How we’ve designed a culture that fuels our business results
• How I advanced my career through AsanaUP
• How we use (and don’t use) job titles at Asana

What you’ll achieve:

• Lead and scale Asana's global Product Design and User Research teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and design excellence.
• Oversee the strategic direction and execution of all user research initiatives to ensure a deep understanding of customer needs and behaviors.
• Drive the overall vision, strategy, and roadmap for the user experience across all Asana products and platforms (web and mobile).
• Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering leadership to integrate design and research insights into the product development lifecycle.
• Champion a human-centered design pr