Lead Product Designer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the design strategy and implementation for one or more product pillars from the discovery phase to delivery.

• Convert customer requirements, business objectives, product strategies, and technical limitations into design direction and experience roadmaps.

• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to establish product vision, prioritize initiatives, and unify teams around high-quality results.

• Shape leadership decisions by applying customer empathy, data analysis, product insights, storytelling, and design reasoning.

• Conduct design quality assessments and establish standards for usability, accessibility, interaction quality, visual consistency, and alignment with design systems.

• Enhance the quality of various teams by mentoring designers, refining critiques, reinforcing shared patterns, and simplifying the adoption of standards.

• Establish and promote metrics for design quality and impact, including usability indicators, accessibility adherence, task completion rates, adoption, retention, and customer satisfaction.

• Navigate complex discovery and design processes amid uncertainty by synthesizing inputs, framing decisions, and assisting teams in moving forward with clarity.

• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders, mentor designers, and influence product direction, design standards, and team culture across product pillars.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of relevant experience in product design.

• At least 2 years in a leadership, mentorship, or design direction role.

• Experience in SaaS, B2B, platform, or other complex digital product environments.

• A portfolio showcasing exceptional work; applications without a portfolio will not be accepted.

• Proven experience in leading data-driven product design across research, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, content strategy, and usability testing.

• Outstanding visual and interaction design skills.

• Familiarity with designing AI-driven or intelligent interfaces.

• Experience collaborating with teams focused on machine learning, data, automation, or platforms.

• Strong understanding of design systems, accessibility standards, reusable patterns, and scalable product experience decisions.

• Experience in influencing design direction for significant product areas, systems, platforms, or pillars.

• Excellent cross-functional leadership abilities with product managers, engineers, data partners, customer-facing teams, senior stakeholders, and designers.

• Superior communication and facilitation skills.

• Required experience utilizing AI-powered tools for exploration, prototyping, critique, synthesis, or workflow enhancement.

• A passion for advancing team operations, design standards, processes, tools, and documentation.

• Ability to collaborate effectively across different time zones and cultural contexts.

• A commitment to accessibility, inclusivity, and ethical design practices.

🏝️ Benefits

• The autonomy to influence design direction across one or more strategically significant product pillars.

• A meaningful impact on product quality, customer outcomes, and roadmap direction in collaboration with product, engineering, and senior leadership.

• An opportunity to elevate the design standards across multiple teams through critique, mentorship, and systems thinking.

• Collaboration with product, engineering, data, and design peers.

• A design culture focused on craftsmanship.

• A fully remote work environment.

• Flexible and considerate working hours to facilitate collaboration between colleagues based in the US and India.