• Lead and grow a team of product designers, providing mentorship, feedback, and professional development while creating a culture of excellence, curiosity, and accountability. • Drive the design vision and execution across key product areas, ensuring consistency, usability, and measurable business and customer impact. • Partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders to shape product strategy and define priorities that balance user needs with business goals. • Establish clear expectations and success metrics for design work, championing outcomes over outputs and ensuring design is an equal voice in product decisions. • Guide cross-functional alignment on initiatives that span multiple products, unifying experiences through shared systems, standards, and principles. • Foster collaboration across disciplines, encouraging experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement in how teams work and deliver. • Collaborate with the Director of Product Design and peers to evolve our operating model, processes, and rituals to scale high-quality design across Upstart. • Contribute to hiring and onboarding strategies that attract diverse, exceptional talent and reinforce an inclusive, mission-driven design culture.