Lead Product Designer

We're seeking a Lead Product Designer who can elevate our product experiences through vision, craft, and influence. You've spent 7+ years designing SaaS products, and you're now ready to shape not just great interfaces but great design culture. As a design leader, you'll mentor other designers, partner deeply with PMs and engineers, and play a central role in defining our design direction.

You'll connect high-level strategy to detailed execution and use both qualitative and quantitative insights to make confident design decisions.

• Lead design strategy and execution for one or more product pillars.
• Drive design quality reviews and own standards for usability, accessibility, and design consistency.
• Mentor and grow the design team; provide thoughtful feedback and career guidance.
• Partner with PMs and Engineering to translate business goals into design roadmaps.
• Influence the product vision through storytelling, data synthesis, and user empathy.
• Contribute to and evolve our design system, ensuring cohesive experiences across surfaces and devices.
• Define metrics for design quality and impact (usability scores, accessibility compliance, NPS, etc.).
• Create alignment between design and cross-functional teams through documentation, office hours, and design critiques.
• Stay current on design trends, emerging tools, and industry best practices bringing back actionable insights to the team.

• Experience with AI-powered design tooling is mandatory. Applications without a folio will not be considered.
• 7+ years of relevant design experience, with 2+ years in a leadership or mentorship capacity.
• Proven record of delivering elegant, data-informed experiences across the full design lifecycleresearch, IA, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, and testing.
• Deep fluency in design systems, accessibility, and scalable design patterns.
• Strong visual and interaction design, you care about hierarchy, layout, motion, and usability as much as strategy.
• Experience designing for AI-driven or intelligent interfaces, including collaboration with ML and data teams.
• Track record of influencing design direction at a system or platform level, not just at the feature level.
• Natural mentor comfortable coaching Senior and Junior designers while promoting shared standards of excellence.
• Strong facilitation skills: workshops, design critiques, and decision frameworks.
• A portfolio that demonstrates systematic thinking and measurable product impact.
• Excellent communicator to simplify complex ideas for different audiences and advocate for design-led solutions.
• Familiarity with front-end implementation constraints; ability to work closely with engineers to ship quality.
• Committed to inclusive, accessible, and scalable design.
• Passionate about improving team operations processes, tools, and documentation.

• Comfortable moving between strategy and hands-on design.
• Skilled at balancing speed, detail, and scalability in design execution.
• Strong storytelling and presentation skills can persuade through clarity and evidence.
• Deep curiosity about users, data, and design systems.
• Empathy-driven leader who helps others grow and succeed.
• Advocate for accessibility, inclusion, and ethical design.
• Positive energy is able to energize teams and maintain momentum in ambiguity.