Senior Director, Product Design
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Work mode: Office-based/Hybrid
Team: Bentley Open Applications
Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company, advancing the world’s infrastructure—sustaining both the global economy and the environment. Within Bentley, the Design organization shapes meaningful experiences—from brand to in-product interactions—with clarity, coherence, and craft.
As Senior Director, Product Design for Bentley Open Applications, you will set the vision, strategy, and standard of excellence for design across one of Bentley's most critical product portfolios. You will lead a talented team of designers and researchers, shaping how infrastructure professionals around the world experience our software, and how AI, data, and intelligent workflows transform their craft.
Reporting to the Chief Design Officer with a dotted line to SVP, Open Applications, you will work closely with leaders across Design, Product Management, Engineering, and Research to help drive portfolio-level decisions, champion the user, and ensure design plays a central role in shaping the future of Bentley Open Applications.
Set the multi-year vision and strategy for product design across Bentley Open Applications, ensuring that design is a driver of business outcomes, product differentiation, and user value.
Operate as a peer to leaders in Product Management and Engineering, representing design in executive forums and shaping portfolio-level roadmap, investment, and prioritization decisions.
Establish design principles and patterns for AI-powered experiences, ensuring trust, transparency, and explainability across the portfolio.
Define and evolve the design operating model, including design systems, research practices, experience strategy, and standards of craft across the portfolio.
Advocate for responsible and ethical AI, embedding considerations around bias, user agency, and privacy into design decisions.
Build and steward executive and cross-functional relationships, influencing senior leaders across product, engineering, marketing, and data to align user-centered priorities.
Own department budget, headcount planning, and organizational design, making strategic investment decisions that balance growth, capability, and efficiency.
Strong commercial acumen, including budget ownership, workforce planning, and prioritization across competing demands.
Exceptional communicator, facilitator, and storyteller, able to inspire teams and influence executives alike.
Experience in complex enterprise, B2B, or technical software domains (infrastructure, engineering, or industrial software a plus).
Be part of a company committed to making a real difference by advancing the world’s infrastructure for better quality of life, where your contributions help build a more sustainable, connected, and resilient world. Discover our latest user success stories for an insight into our global impact.
Around the world, infrastructure professionals rely on software from Bentley Systems to help them design, build, and operate better and more resilient infrastructure for transportation, water, energy, cities, and more. Founded in 1984 by engineers for engineers, Bentley is the partner of choice for engineering firms and owner-operators worldwide, with software that spans engineering disciplines, industry sectors, and all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle. Through our digital twin solutions, we help infrastructure professionals unlock the value of their data to transform project delivery and asset performance.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Bentley is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers for employment all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, religion/belief, national origin, caste, age, or any other characteristic protected by local law or unrelated to job qualifications.
About Bentley Systems
Around the world, infrastructure professionals rely on software from Bentley Systems to help them design, build, and operate better and more resilient infrastructure for transportation, water, energy, cities, and more. Founded in 1984 by engineers for engineers, Bentley is the partner of choice for engineering firms and owner-operators worldwide, with software that spans engineering disciplines, industry sectors, and all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle. Through our digital twin solutions, we help infrastructure professionals unlock the value of their data to transform project delivery and asset performance. www.bentley.com
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Bentley is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers for employment all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, religion/belief, national origin, caste, age, or any other characteristic protected by local law or unrelated to job qualifications.
