Lead Product Designer
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Job Details
- Languages
- Fluent in English
- Experience
- 10+ years of experience
- Required Skills
- HTMLCSSJavascriptUI DesignVue.JsProduct designDevOps
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in product design, including senior or lead-level ownership of complex products.
- Proven experience driving design for technical products (developer tools, platforms, infrastructure, SaaS, DevOps, or cloud software strongly preferred).
- Demonstrated ability to own design in small or startup teams; able to bootstrap a design practice before scaling the design team progressively.
- Strong interaction design, UX architecture, and UI design skills, with a portfolio that shows systems thinking and clarity.
- Comfortable with frontend fundamentals (HTML, CSS, basic JS) and able to reason about implementation trade-offs.
- Experience influencing product strategy and collaborating closely with engineers.
- Ability to communicate design rationale, constraints, and decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Pragmatic, simplicity-oriented problem-solving mindset (KISS).
- Fluent in English.
- Startup mindset and comfort operating with autonomy.
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the product design vision for Cycloid, in alignment with product strategy and company goals.
- Lead the design of new features end-to-end: discovery, flows, architecture, prototypes, UI, and iterative refinement.
- Shape UX for complex, technical domains such as platform engineering workflows, infrastructure automation, permissions, configuration, and lifecycle management.
- Collaborate daily with product managers, frontend, backend, and DevOps experts to define requirements, challenge assumptions, and validate solutions.
- Establish a scalable design system for the next-generation version of Cycloid, ensuring coherence, quality, and long-term maintainability.
- Integrate AI-powered workflows and tools into design processes to accelerate discovery, prototyping, documentation, and iteration.
- Work closely with frontend teams to translate designs into high-quality Vue.js implementations; contribute small visual or interaction fixes when appropriate.
- Provide clear reporting to the Founder on product direction, priorities, and progress.
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