VP of Product Design

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

📋 Description

• Integrate product design and UX into a cohesive team with a unified standard of quality.

• Foster a design culture that encourages critique, rituals, and a collective ambition.

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure timely delivery of features within the system.

• Enhance design efficiency, turnaround times, and planning utilizing AI tools and the design system.

• Review, refine, and implement Pencil’s design system throughout the product.

• Create design-system tokens in code and establish a component library for engineering use.

• Set guidelines for AI-generated UI to ensure consistency with the system.

• Define interaction models for briefing, executing, supervising, reviewing, and approving agent tasks.

• Design with a focus on enterprise governance, control, trust, practitioner efficiency, and creative flexibility.

• Develop design-review processes and collaboration rituals among design, product, and engineering teams.

• Outline team structure, levels, career paths, and recruitment strategies.

• Work with Marketing Design to synchronize product and brand efforts.

• Incorporate design into discovery and research phases and conduct post-launch evaluations.

• Recruit and lead design engineers.

• Integrate accessibility features within the design system.

• Within the first 90 days, engage with designers, familiarize yourself with the product and customers, assess the system, deliver a shared pattern, and establish review and contribution models.

• By the sixth month, standardize essential user flows and solidify team structure, levels, and rituals.

• By the twelfth month, ensure on-system shipping becomes the norm and minimize duplicated components.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in product design, including 5+ years in leadership roles overseeing teams of designers, including other leads.

• Proven track record in cultivating a design culture.

• Possess creative vision that extends beyond functional requirements.

• Experience in adopting an existing design system within a rapidly evolving B2B product environment.

• Familiarity with complex enterprise software, encompassing workflows, permissions, review and approval processes, and handling dense data.

• Regular use of AI tools and an understanding of coding agents in design workflows.

• Knowledge of design-system tokens, component APIs, and front-end limitations.

• Strong practical skills in product design.

• Experience in leading organizational transformations.

• Background in designing AI or agent products, creative or marketing tools, or managing teams across different time zones is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• 25 days of PTO plus public holidays, although we also have a Flexible Time Off policy.

• Health insurance and private medical coverage.

• Monthly stipend for wellness, fitness, and learning and development initiatives.

• Remote work options: operate from anywhere within your home country.

• Enhanced parental leave policies, applicable to parents through birth, adoption, or surrogacy.

• Access to our Pencil office located in The Shard, London for employees based in the UK.

• Flexible working hours.