Product Design Lead

You will own the design vision, execution quality, and team development for a critical product domain, ensuring both strategic alignment and hands-on contribution to the most complex problems.

• Define and own the end-to-end experience strategy and design quality bar for your product area
• Lead, mentor, and develop a small team of product designers through critique, coaching, and hands-on collaboration
• Contribute directly to product design work, spending a significant portion of time in the tools solving high-impact problems
• Partner as an equal with Product and Engineering leaders to shape roadmap direction and product decisions
• Lead research efforts to uncover user needs across multiple personas and translate insights into product direction
• Strengthen and extend the design system by identifying gaps and building reusable patterns and components
• Navigate complex trade-offs between ideal user experience, technical constraints, and operational realities
• Build and evolve design processes, critique standards, and delivery practices that enable a small team to operate at high velocity and high quality

Requirements:

You bring strong experience designing and leading work on complex, systems-heavy products, combined with the ability to elevate both craft and team performance. You are comfortable operating with autonomy and making high-stakes product decisions in ambiguous environments.

• Proven experience designing and shipping complex SaaS, fintech, infrastructure, or developer-focused products
• Prior experience leading or mentoring product designers, formally or informally
• Strong craft skills across interaction design, visual design, and information architecture
• Demonstrated ability to own a product domain from early ambiguity through to shipped outcomes
• Experience working closely with Product and Engineering in a highly collaborative environment
• Ability to operate independently with high autonomy and minimal direction
• Strong systems thinking and comfort working in technically complex environments
• Experience with payments, financial systems, or regulated domains is a strong plus
• Experience contributing to or scaling a design system is an advantage

Benefits:

• Fully remote and globally distributed work environment
• Competitive equity or share options package
• Generous paid time off with a minimum threshold and uncapped flexibility
• Private healthcare coverage (where applicable)
• Learning and development budget to support professional growth
• Home office setup support and high-quality equipment provision
• Access to co-working spaces and global workations
• Annual company retreat and team offsites
• Strong culture of autonomy, ownership, and meaningful product impact

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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