Head of Design – AI Startup

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants anywhere in the world.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the product's comprehensive user experience, covering everything from advertising creatives and landing pages to onboarding, avatar selection, chat, media generation, and retention strategies.

• Enhance product metrics through design, focusing on conversion rates, user retention, and lifetime value (LTV).

• Develop hypotheses, prioritize them, validate through A/B testing, and oversee their implementation.

• Establish a unified design direction and advance the design system across UI, UX patterns, character visual style, generated content, animation, and UX copy.

• Lead a design team comprised of two product designers, a UX writer, and a researcher.

• Create design processes and foster cross-functional collaboration with product, analytics, marketing, and engineering teams.

• Transform research findings, user interviews, and support insights into roadmap initiatives that align with business objectives.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience leading a design team of three or more members.

• Background in B2C daily-use products, including AI companions, social platforms, dating apps, health & fitness, edtech, or messaging services.

• Experience with products that boast over 2 million monthly active users (MAU) or more than $50 million in revenue.

• Proven track record showing measurable design impacts on conversion rates, retention, or LTV, supported by before-and-after metrics.

• Strong expertise in product design, including UX, UI, user flows, information architecture, and prototyping.

• Proficient in Figma.

• Experience in building and maintaining design systems.

• Demonstrated cross-functional collaboration with product and analytics teams.

• Familiarity with A/B testing methodologies.

• Understanding of prioritization frameworks such as RICE.

• Data-driven decision-making skills.

• Strong aesthetic sensibility paired with analytical thinking.

• Proficiency in English at a C1 level or higher.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time remote work opportunity.

• Vacation entitlement of 28 calendar days per year.

• 7 wellness days annually (time off).

• Bonuses of up to $5000 for successfully recommending candidates for positions within the company.

• 50% reimbursement for professional training, international conferences, and meetings.

• Corporate discounts available for English lessons.

• Health benefits of up to $1,000 gross per year for self-purchased health insurance or doctor’s fees for yourself and close relatives if corporate medical insurance is not accessible.

• Provision of well-equipped workplaces and necessary equipment at offices or co-working spaces.

• Reimbursement for workplace expenses up to $1,000 gross every three years for other locations.

• Internal gamified gratitude system allowing bonus exchanges for merchandise, team-building activities, massage certificates, and more.