Product Design Team Lead
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Imagen AI is hiring a Product Design Team Lead to manage its product designers and own design end-to-end across its Photo, Video, and Real Estate AI editing products — roughly 40% hands-on design and 60% leadership, including building the design system and driving AI-powered design workflows.
Imagen is looking for a Product Design Team Lead to own design across our three product lines — Photo, Video, and Real Estate — and lead the team of designers who build them.
This is a player-coach role: roughly 40% hands-on design, 60% leadership. You will manage a team of designers, and hold the full design picture across the product. You own design decisions end-to-end .
This role offers the opportunity to directly shape Imagen's product experience at a category-defining moment, working closely with the heads of product, engineering, and leadership.
Responsibilities
- Manage product designers Team including 1:1s, performance reviews, growth, and professional development.
- Drive design excellence and elevate the team's craft through structured feedback, critique, and leadership.
- Hold decision authority across Core, Video, and Real Estate.
- Stay hands-on on core initiatives; lead by doing, not just reviewing.
- Build and evolve the design system, patterns, and standards.
- Drive design workflows through AI and industry best practices.
Requirements
- An exceptional hands-on designer with Proven experience leading complex product areas and managing or mentoring senior designers.
- Deep UX and systems thinking, beyond visual polish.Design for the full workflow.
- Experience building or owning design systems and UX standards.
- A decision-maker who is comfortable making the call with incomplete data and real constraints.
- Strong opinions and the confidence to push back .
- A people leader who can earn the trust of an existing team.