Lead Product Designer

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📋 Description

• Lead design strategy and execution for one or more product pillars from discovery through delivery
• Translate customer needs, business goals, product strategy and technical constraints into experience direction and design roadmaps
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to define product vision, prioritize opportunities and align teams around high-quality outcomes
• Influence leadership decisions through customer empathy, data synthesis, product judgment, storytelling and design rationale
• Drive design quality reviews and set standards for usability, accessibility, interaction quality, visual consistency and design system alignment
• Mentor designers, improve critique, strengthen shared patterns and make standards easier to adopt across multiple teams
• Define and socialize metrics for design quality and impact, including usability, accessibility compliance, task success, adoption, retention and customer satisfaction
• Lead complex discovery and design efforts through ambiguity by synthesizing inputs, framing decisions and helping teams move with clarity
• Partner with product and engineering leaders, mentor designers and shape product direction, design standards and team culture across the [REDACTED] platform

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant product design experience
• 2+ years in a leadership, mentorship or design direction capacity
• Experience in SaaS, B2B, platform, workflow-heavy or other complex digital product environments is highly valuable
• Exceptionally strong portfolio demonstrating systematic thinking, customer empathy, exceptional craft, measurable product impact and leadership beyond individual execution
• Applications without a portfolio will not be considered
• Experience leading data-informed product design across research, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, content strategy and usability testing
• Exceptional visual and interaction design craft
• Experience designing for AI-driven or intelligent interfaces
• Deep fluency in design systems, accessibility standards, reusable patterns and scalable product experience decisions
• Experience influencing design direction for high-impact product areas, systems, platforms or pillars
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills
• Experience using AI-powered tools for exploration, prototyping, critique, synthesis or workflow acceleration is mandatory
• Ability to collaborate effectively across time zones and cultural contexts
• Commitment to accessibility, inclusion and ethical design

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote environment
• Autonomy to shape design direction across strategically important product pillars
• Meaningful influence with product, engineering and senior leadership
• Opportunity to raise the design bar across multiple teams
• Partnership with product, engineering, data and design peers
• Craft-forward design culture
• Mentorship and opportunities to grow other designers

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