Product Design Lead

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Within your first month:

• Ship your first major design project, setting a new bar for quality and user-centricity.
• Create, document, and begin implementing the Hadrius Design System to accelerate our product development velocity.
• Establish the core design rituals and processes (critiques, user research cadence, etc.) that will allow us to scale.
• Become the go-to partner for the CTO on product strategy, roadmap planning, and defining what we build next.

Within your first 3 months and beyond:

• Own the end-to-end design of complex, ambiguous, 0-to-1 product initiatives.
• Scale the design function and play a key role in hiring future members of the team
• Act as the primary voice of the customer in strategic conversations, ensuring user needs drive company priorities.
• Visibly raise the bar for product quality across the entire company, holding engineering and product accountable for delivering exceptional user experiences.

About You

• A Master of Your Craft: You are a highly competent and seasoned designer. Your portfolio demonstrates strategic, systems-level thinking and exceptional visual and interaction design skills. With many years of experience, you have both breadth and depth.
• Strategic Partner & Mentor: You don't just execute on a vision; you help create it. You are a player-coach who elevates the work of everyone around you.
• Thrives in Ambiguity: You are energized by complex, loosely defined problems and have a track record of creating clarity and direction from chaos.
• All-In: This is not a 9-5. You understand that building a category-defining company requires immense focus and commitment. We are optimizing for the best, and we compensate generously for it.
• Strategic Ownership: You take complete ownership of the user experience and its impact on the business, from high-level strategy down to the individual pixels on the screen.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in Product Design, with a portfolio/experience showcasing your work on complex, shipped products.
• Proven experience leading the design of products from 0-to-1 or navigating significant product redesigns.
• Experience building and maintaining design systems that accelerate development.
• An expert communicator who can articulate design strategy and rationale to engineers, executives, and customers with equal clarity.
• Deep proficiency in Figma and other modern design and prototyping tools.
• (Preferred) Experience in B2B SaaS, enterprise software and fintech.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary and a significant equity package.
• 401(k) with 100% match up to 6%.
• Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance.
• The opportunity to build the design function and culture at a world-class company.
• 18k/yr housing stipend if you live near the office / lower manhattan