Product Design Lead

The role

You will lead the design of important product areas and shape the direction of the product. This is a hands-on leadership role involving end-to-end design, defining interaction patterns, and evolving the visual language.

What you will do

• Lead and oversee multiple product areas from early exploration through to launch
• Own strategic design decisions and help shape the direction of the product
• Design end-to-end flows and experiences
• Connect business vision with customer needs
• Define how experiences behave and establish interaction patterns
• Shape and evolve visual language across typography, colour, layout, iconography and overall aesthetic
• Work closely with Engineering to translate technical architectures into user interactions
• Set a high bar for design quality while balancing craft with pace
• Articulate the thinking behind decisions

Required qualifications

• Strong individual contributor with leadership skills and judgement to influence product direction
• Experience leading the design of significant product areas and making strategic decisions
• Excellent interaction design skills
• Exceptional visual design craft and strong judgement across typography, colour, layout, hierarchy, iconography and aesthetics
• Strong product thinking and ability to connect customer needs, business objectives and design decisions
• Confidence to form a point of view, make decisions and explain reasoning and trade-offs
• Experience working closely with engineers and navigating technical complexity
• Ability to execute at speed without compromising quality
• Comfort operating with autonomy and navigating changing priorities of a growing startup

Benefits

• Market-leading compensation
• 25 days paid time off each year plus public holidays
• Share Options with 5-year exercise window
• Quarterly team events, and company offsites
• Top tier private coverage for health, vision and dental care
• A new MacBook and tools
• Enhanced parental leave with up to 16 weeks for primary and 4 weeks for secondary
• Learning & development budget

About the company

Humaans is building the next generation of infrastructure for the workplace. It is an AI platform that automates the operational layer of HR.