Senior Director, Design

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Senior Director, Design

About Us

Rent the Runway (RTR) is transforming the way we get dressed by pioneering the world’s first Closet in the Cloud. Founded in 2009, RTR has disrupted the $2.4 trillion fashion industry by inspiring women with a more joyful, sustainable and financially-savvy way to feel their best every day. As the ultimate destination for circular fashion, the brand now offers infinite points of access to its shared closet via a fully customizable subscription to fashion, one-time rental or ownership. RTR offers designer apparel and accessories from hundreds of brand partners and has built in-house proprietary technology and a one-of-a-kind reverse logistics operation. RTR has been named to CNBC’s “Disruptor 50” five times in ten years, and has been placed on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list multiple times.

About the Job

The Senior Director, Design owns the design infrastructure that makes RTR's platform work: the systems, experiences, and visual language that shape how customers discover, navigate, and fall in love with what we offer. This role leads RTR's in-house design function and is responsible for the quality, coherence, and performance of design across the entire customer-facing platform.

Design sits within the broader Product & Channel Revenue organization, working as a peer to Product, Engineering, Copy and Creative. Where Brand Creative sets the visual identity and drives campaigns, Design makes that identity work at scale across every surface of the site, app, and product experience that touches the customer. As RTR builds toward a customer-led fashion service platform that compounds value across subscription, Reserve, and resale, this role is central to making those ambitions real.

What You’ll Do

• Own RTR's design systems and visual language implementation, ensuring the brand's visual identity is expressed consistently and correctly across site, app, email, and internal tools, in close coordination with Brand Creative.
• Lead the end-to-end UX and product design function across the customer-facing platform, integrating AI tools into the team's everyday workflows to drive design efficiency, accelerate output, and maintain a consistently high quality bar across every surface.
• Drive the product design track underlying RTR's AI-enabled initiatives including AI-powered discovery, fit recommendations, and PDP design, bringing a product design and UX perspective that is peer-level to Brand Creative's AI creative leadership.
• Build and develop a high-performing, multi-disciplinary design team across product design.
• Establish and maintain design quality standards and review processes, owning what great design looks like for RTR's digital platform and holding that bar across the team and with external partners.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Channel Revenue as a true cross-functional peer, participating in roadmap planning, sprint reviews, and product decisions where design has a

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care of themselves and their family.

• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, FSA and dependent care from day 1 of employment - Your health comes first, and we’ve got you covered.
• 401(k) match - an investment in your future.
• Exclusive employee subscription and rental discounts - to ensure you experience the magic of renting the runway (and give us valued feedback!).
• Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents + flexible return to work program - because we know your newest family member(s) deserve your undivided attention.
• Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service - Unplug, recharge, and have some fun!
• Company-wide events and outings - our team spirit is no joke - we know how to have fun!
• Office-centric work - our corporate employees and technical leaders have the option to work remotely on Fridays, in accordance with Company policies.

Rent the Runway is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination against any applicant or employee based on any legally-recognized basis, including, but not limited to: race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age (40 and over), national origin or ancestry, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), veteran status, uniformed service member status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.

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The anticipated base salary for this position is $207,692 - $270,000. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of factors, including without limitation, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held.
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