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Lead Product Designer

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Summary

Lead Product Designer at clera, a seed-stage AI communications SaaS company in Vienna: hands-on ownership of product, brand, and website design across three product areas, leading a small design team, building design systems, and using AI tools to ship fast. Requires 5+ years of end-to-end product design experience and native-level German.

About the Role

Join the design team at a seed-stage AI communications SaaS company, taking hands-on ownership of product design, brand, and design-team leadership. You will shape experiences across several product areas for businesses using AI to manage customer communications.

What You'll Do

  • Lead product design across three product areas in close collaboration with product and engineering.

  • Spend time designing hands-on, conducting customer interviews, and developing the brand and website.

  • Guide the design team across product, brand, and web while remaining involved in day-to-day design work.

  • Set and maintain consistent design standards across products and customer touchpoints.

  • Build and scale design systems, using customer insights and analytics to measure outcomes and improve designs.

  • Use modern AI tools to accelerate design work and support a fast, iterative shipping cadence.

What We're Looking For

  • At least five years of end-to-end product design experience, with ownership across multiple product areas.

  • Hands-on expertise in Figma, prototyping, and user interviews, plus experience building and scaling design systems.

  • Experience owning product, brand, and website design, with an analytical approach to evaluating design decisions.

  • Design-team leadership experience or readiness to take on team responsibility while staying hands-on.

  • Experience with modern AI tools such as Cursor, v0, or Claude, and an interest in AI-enabled products.

  • Native-level German and good professional English.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: €80,000 to €150,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in Vienna, Austria.

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