Director, Design

Loop Returns

Loop Returns

Software Engineering, Design

Columbus, OH, USA

USD 180k-250k / year + Equity

Posted on Apr 17, 2026
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The Design Team creates exceptional experiences for Loop brands and their customers as we evolve from a post-purchase tool into an autonomous operational intelligence system. The team spans Product Design, UX Research, and Brand; shaping how AI-driven decisions get expressed across product surfaces and merchant touchpoints, making complex, autonomous actions legible, trustworthy, and genuinely useful.
The Director of Design will lead Loop's design function through a pivotal transition: from designing interfaces that merchants navigate to designing systems that act on their behalf. You will establish and evolve our design system, visual identity, and AI interaction patterns, ensuring that as Loop's engine gets smarter and more autonomous, merchants and shoppers always understand what's happening and why.
As the design team leader, you effortlessly transition between a big-picture view and attention to detail. You thrive on collaborating with diverse teams and individuals. You can expect to work in an AI-first product environment and a product culture that is merchant-centric, trust-obsessed, and product-led.
At Loop, we’re intentional about the way we work so that we can do our best work. We call this our Blended Working Environment. We work from our HQ in Columbus, OH, or one of our Hub or Secluded locations, and are distributed throughout the United States, select Canadian provinces, United Kingdom, and Australia. For this position, we’re looking for someone to join us in Columbus, OH; or one of our ET/CT Hub locations.
We tried to keep our initial Job Description brief (below), but here's the full version that will tell you more about what is required of the role, and the ideal experience and background to succeed in this opportunity.

Here's an overview of your responsibilities. Keep in mind that as Loop continues to grow, the challenges we tackle together will evolve across different phases:

  • Cultivate and empower the design team through hiring, mentorship, and building the culture and processes needed to design for AI-first products.
  • Serve as the senior leader across Product Design, UX Research, and Brand, connecting the work of each discipline into a unified design strategy.
  • Embrace a multifaceted role where you'll take ownership of both strategy and execution as Loop transitions from reactive tooling to autonomous operational intelligence.
  • Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Data, and Marketing teams to make Loop the leading AI-powered post-purchase intelligence platform for independent commerce.
  • Lead the design vision for surfaces where AI makes autonomous decisions, returns resolutions, shipping exceptions, policy recommendations, ensuring outcomes are always legible, trustworthy, and merchant-controlled.
  • Lead by example in designing for explainability: creating patterns that translate system decisions into plain-language rationale that merchants and shoppers can read, trust, and override when needed.
  • Act as the voice of merchant trust: sharing design-informed insights about where AI-driven decisions build or break confidence, and using that perspective to shape how Loop becomes the most trusted autonomous operations platform in ecommerce.

Your Experience:

  • 7+ years of Product and UX Design experience, with meaningful exposure to AI-powered or agent-driven product surfaces.
  • 5+ years of team leadership and management in design, ideally through a significant product platform shift.
  • User Research and Brand Design experience is heavily preferred.
  • E-commerce or fintech experience is highly valued, particularly in environments where design shapes high-stakes transactional trust.
  • Experience designing B2B products, admin interfaces, merchant dashboards, and customer-facing resolution flows is required.
  • Experience designing for AI explainability, autonomous decision systems, or trust architecture is a strong differentiator.
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Loop Story
Commerce should feel effortless. Every product adored, every order perfect, every customer loyal for life. But reality is messier: operations get tangled, margins grow thin, and trust is fragile. That’s where Loop steps in. We create confidence where commerce fails.
We started by fixing returns and exchanges. Today, we’re building a connected commerce operations suite — powering everything from order tracking to fraud prevention, with hundreds of innovations in between. Grounded in data and insight, our platform helps merchants make smarter decisions with every transaction. Over 5,000 of the world’s most loved brands trust Loop to turn cost centers into growth engines. Our mission is simple: protect margins, delight customers, and help merchants build businesses that last.
Life at Loop is rooted in our core values. We balance high empathy with high standards, knowing that work is better when we can show up authentically and resilience is built by facing challenges head-on. We expect you’ll grow quickly, learning skills that last far beyond your time here. Loop is a formative chapter in your career — a chance to shape the future of commerce and to leave better than when you arrived.
Learn more about us here: https://loopreturns.com/careers.
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180000 - 250000 USD a year

- This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus expected to be 15% of your base salary.

- We know that making decisions about your career and compensation is a huge deal. Because of that, we’re incredibly thoughtful about our compensation strategy. We want you to feel safe and excited, but also comfortable with the compensation package of a startup. We’ve outlined some important information for you here, but please know there’s a lot more to compensation than we can cover in this job posting.

- The posted salary range is the base salary for this opportunity. The salary range is subject to change, and may be adjusted in the future.

- The actual annual salary paid for this position will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to: your prior experience and skills related to the position, geographic location, company needs, current market demands, and your total compensation goals.

- Great humans deserve great benefits! At Loop, you’ll be eligible for benefits such as: medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible PTO, company holidays, sick & safe leave, parental leave, 401k, monthly wellness benefit, home workstation benefit, phone/internet benefit, and equity.

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