Head of Design

You will lead and execute product design across the organization and its portfolio companies, acting as both a hands-on design operator and a strategic leader. You'll partner with founders, product, engineering, and leadership to turn ambiguous problems into clear design direction, and you'll personally design and ship work spanning UX/UI, prototypes, brand systems, and storytelling. You'll also dedicate up to 25% of your time supporting the Marketing, Brand, and Communications team on web development for the company's and its portfolio companies' digital presence. This is a remote role with light travel expectations, including attendance at bi-annual All Hands events.

Responsibilities

• Partner with founders, product, engineering, and leadership to translate ambiguous problem spaces into clear product design direction
• Build early concepts and future-state prototypes to test ideas quickly and inform strategy
• Create and own overall design concepts for user experience across web, mobile, agents, wearables, and other emerging modalities
• Design and ship high-quality products and improvements from early concepts to high-fidelity prototypes and visuals
• Personally design and ship work across product UX/UI, prototypes, brand systems, and storytelling
• Work closely with Marketing to implement style and branding elements into user experiences
• Establish lightweight frameworks, standards, and patterns that enable speed without bureaucracy
• Define how design scales as companies mature from scrappy early builds to durable repeatable systems
• Navigate unclear requirements, evolving priorities, and high-stakes decisions with confidence
• Balance speed, quality, and pragmatism in fast-moving environments
• Support web development efforts for marketing, brand, and communications digital presence

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in product, UX & front-end design, including leadership roles in high-growth startups or scale-ups
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or related field
• Strong understanding of AI fundamentals and their application in product experiences
• Knowledge of front-end development languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Expert Figma, Figma Make skills, or equivalent product skills: component libraries, auto-layout, variants, prototyping, design tokens
• Deep understanding of responsive, mobile-first design
• Demonstrated success designing across multiple phases of company growth from concept to scaled product
• Exceptional craft across UX, visual design, systems thinking, and storytelling
• Strong product intuition and the ability to connect user needs, business goals, and technical constraints
• Proven ability to develop experiences that meet or exceed the initial proposal of a product or experience

Benefits

• 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family
• Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay
• Unlimited PTO, with management approval
• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available
• Mental health benefits available through Tara Mind
• Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux
• Remote work