Head of Design
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Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, UKFull-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Languages
- English
- Required Skills
- People ManagementProduct design
Requirements
- Managed managers, coached senior designers, and built design teams that improve craft and business outcomes.
- Experience leading design across complex or developer-facing products.
- Proven craft authority with the ability to identify and enforce quality standards.
- Demonstrated strategic influence, moving beyond downstream execution to become a co-equal in product conversations.
- Structured problem-solving skills to navigate and resolve ambiguity.
- Deep understanding of the AI, automation, or adjacent tooling landscape.
- Literacy in research, with experience building research into product development processes.
- Experience using product analytics, research, and customer evidence for data-informed decision-making.
- Expertise in organizational design and performance management.
- Experience with open-source, community-led, or builder-driven products is nice to have.
- Front-end or design engineering fluency is a plus.
- Experience building rituals for remote-first or distributed teams is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Set a clear, consistent quality bar that the team can orient around and build toward.
- Build review processes and critique rituals that give the team a shared language for quality.
- Evolve the design system and QA practices to support team growth.
- Shape product strategy and lead design's expansion toward a broader, less technical audience.
- Lead and manage a team of approximately 14 designers, including Design Leads, ICs, and Design Engineering/UX Research.
- Shape team structure, career frameworks, and progression paths.
- Own hiring and headcount planning for the design department.
- Establish a pragmatic, continuous research practice to inform product decisions.
- Champion practical AI adoption within the design organization.
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