Head of Design

The role

The Head of Design will own product design quality across the group's consumer products and brands. This is a hands-on design leadership role involving direct work on product concepts, interfaces, and user journeys.

What you will do

• Set the design direction and quality bar across group products.
• Work directly on or review critical user journeys, product concepts and interfaces.
• Turn complex financial and AI workflows into simple consumer experiences.
• Set standards across product design, interaction, visual design and design systems.
• Review shipped products and identify specific usability and design problems.
• Work with product and engineering from early concepts through production.
• Recruit and assess senior product, UI and brand designers.

Required qualifications

• Strong portfolio of shipped consumer technology products with meaningful usage.
• Deep product and interaction design capability, not primarily people management.
• Strong visual judgement and attention to interface details.
• Ability to prototype and communicate product interactions directly.
• Experience working closely with product and engineering on shipped products.
• Hands-on design style - able to create, critique and materially improve design work directly.

About the company

Actai aims to build proactive applications for anyone in the world with minimal to no prompting. Their first application is an agent-first mobile communication app.