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
• Raise the quality of multiple teams by mentoring designers, improving critique, strengthening shared patterns and making standards easier to adopt
• Define and socialize metrics for design quality and impact, including usability signals, 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 product pillars

🎯 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
• Exceptionally strong portfolio; 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 AI-driven or intelligent interfaces
• Experience collaborating with machine learning, data, automation or platform teams
• 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 with product managers, engineers, data partners, customer-facing teams, senior stakeholders and designers
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills
• Mandatory experience using AI-powered tools for exploration, prototyping, critique, synthesis or workflow acceleration
• Passion for improving team operations, design standards, processes, tools and documentation
• Ability to collaborate across time zones and cultural contexts
• Commitment to accessibility, inclusion and ethical design

🏖️ Benefits

• Autonomy to shape design direction across one or more strategically important product pillars
• Meaningful influence with product, engineering and senior leadership on product quality, customer outcomes and roadmap direction
• Opportunity to raise the design bar across multiple teams through critique, standards, mentorship and systems thinking
• Partnership with product, engineering, data and design peers
• Craft-forward design culture
• 100% remote environment
• Flexible and thoughtful working hours for collaboration across US- and India-based colleagues

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