VP of Product Design

Accountabilities

You will define and lead the overall product design strategy, bringing together designers, design engineers, product managers, and engineering teams to create a consistent, scalable, and engaging product experience.

• Establish and lead a unified product design function, bringing UX and product design teams together under shared standards, ownership, and quality expectations while maintaining close collaboration with product squads.

• Build an inspiring design culture through regular critiques, team rituals, shared creative standards, and a strong sense of ownership and professional development.

• Drive the delivery of high-quality product experiences in collaboration with product and engineering teams, ensuring timely execution while introducing creativity, originality, and memorable user interactions.

• Improve design efficiency by establishing clear turnaround times, leveraging AI tools and design systems, and measuring design delivery timelines to support effective product planning.

• Take ownership of the existing design system, reviewing its foundations, addressing gaps, and driving implementation across the product through design tokens, reusable components, and engineering-ready libraries.

• Ensure design systems are compatible with AI-assisted development workflows by establishing clear documentation and guidelines that enable coding agents to generate consistent, on-brand interfaces.

• Define intuitive user experiences for AI agents, including how users brief, operate, supervise, review, and approve agent-generated work.

• Balance the needs of enterprise customers, who prioritize governance, control, and trust, with those of practitioners seeking speed, flexibility, and creative possibilities.

• Establish effective collaboration frameworks between design, product, and engineering, including design reviews, approval processes, contribution models, and shared working practices.

• Define the design organization's structure, career progression, seniority levels, and recruitment strategy, while collaborating with marketing design teams to maintain consistency between product and brand experiences.

• Integrate design into product discovery and research processes, ensuring design decisions are informed by customer insights and validated through post-launch evaluations.

• Recruit and lead design engineers who can translate design system foundations into production-ready components used by engineering teams and AI coding tools.

• Embed accessibility standards into the design system and product development processes to ensure experiences meet enterprise customer expectations.

Requirements:

You are an experienced design leader with a strong combination of strategic vision, creative ambition, technical understanding, and people management skills. You can build and inspire design teams while remaining closely involved in the craft and execution of product experiences.

• 10+ years of experience in product design, including at least 5 years leading design teams and managing other design leaders.

• Proven ability to build and develop a strong design culture, inspire creative teams, and establish an environment where designers can thrive and grow.

• Strong creative vision and the ability to go beyond functional requirements to deliver distinctive, engaging, and memorable product experiences.

• Demonstrated experience taking an existing design system and driving its adoption across a fast-moving B2B product organization, with measurable improvements in consistency and implementation.

• Extensive experience designing complex enterprise software, including sophisticated workflows, permissions, data-heavy interfaces, and review and approval processes.

• Hands-on experience using AI tools in everyday design workflows, with a strong understanding of how AI coding agents influence product design and development.

• Solid technical knowledge of design tokens, component APIs, reusable libraries, and front-end engineering constraints.

• Strong design craft and the ability to remain hands-on, providing practical design input and improving product interfaces directly when needed.

• Proven ability to lead organizational change, build trust with teams that have previously operated without centralized design leadership, and successfully collaborate with existing team leads.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders across product and engineering.

• Experience designing AI-powered or agent-based products, creative platforms, or marketing technology solutions is a plus.

• Previous experience leading distributed teams across different time zones is an advantage.

Benefits:

• 25 days of paid time off in addition to public holidays, with a flexible time-off policy.

• Health insurance and private medical coverage.

• Monthly stipend supporting wellness, fitness, and learning and development.

• Fully remote working arrangements, with the flexibility to work from anywhere within your home country.

• Enhanced parental leave policies covering birth, adoption, and surrogacy.

• Access to office facilities at The Shard in London for employees based in the United Kingdom.

• Flexible working hours.