VP of Product Design
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📋 Description
- Bring product design and UX into a single team with one quality bar
- Establish design culture, critique, rituals, and shared ambition
- Partner with product and engineering to ship features on time and on-system
- Improve design speed, turnaround times, and planning through AI tools and the design system
- Review, improve, and implement [REDACTED]’s design system across the product
- Establish design-system tokens in code and a component library for engineering
- Define guidelines for AI-generated UI to remain on-system
- Define interaction models for briefing, running, supervising, reviewing, and approving agent work
- Design for enterprise governance, control, trust, practitioner speed, and creative range
- Establish design-review processes and collaboration rituals across design, product, and engineering
- Define team structure, levels, career paths, and hiring
- Collaborate with Marketing Design to align product and brand
- Bring design into discovery and research and conduct post-launch reviews
- Hire and lead design engineers
- Build accessibility into the design system
- In the first 90 days, meet designers, learn the product and customers, review the system, ship a shared pattern, and agree review and contribution models
- By month 6, standardize key user flows and establish team structure, levels, and rituals
- By month 12, make on-system shipping the default and reduce duplicated components
🎯 Requirements
- 10+ years in product design, with 5+ years leading teams of designers, including other leads
- Experience building a design culture
- Creative ambition beyond the functional brief
- Experience taking an existing design system and achieving adoption in a fast-moving B2B product
- Experience with complex enterprise software, including workflows, permissions, review and approval, and dense data
- Daily use of AI tools and understanding of coding agents in design workflows
- Knowledge of design-system tokens, component APIs, and front-end constraints
- Strong hands-on product design craft
- Experience leading organizational change
- Experience designing AI or agent products, creative or marketing tools, or leading teams across time zones is helpful
🏖️ Benefits
- 25 days PTO plus public holidays, although we operate a Flexible Time Off scheme
- Health insurance / private medical cover
- Monthly stipend towards wellness, fitness, and learning and development
- Remote: work from anywhere in your home country
- Enhanced parental leave policies, whether you become a parent through birth, adoption or surrogacy
- Access to our [REDACTED] office in The Shard, London for UK employees
- Flexible working hours
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