Product Design Lead

About the company

Our client is a software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the design direction of a major product area, leading complex work from early research and concept sketches through polished, shipped interfaces. Set craft standards for a team of designers, mentor others and align closely with engineers, researchers and product leaders.

What you'll do

- Set the long-term direction and near-term plans for a product area with cross-functional leadership.

- Lead design of complex, high-impact features from early research and wireframes through high-fidelity prototypes and quality review.

- Build reusable design frameworks and patterns that keep many products feeling like one coherent system.

- Work with user research to turn real user pain points into clear product decisions.

- Take part in design reviews, mentor designers and push for a high standard of craft.

**Requirements**

What we're looking for

- 8+ years of professional product design experience.

- Several years of experience launching intricate software in sectors where expectations are high.

- Samples of intricate, high-consequence browser-based work for business customers.

- Hands-on individual contributor design work within the last 2+ years.

- Time spent both at major technology employers and at companies in their scaling phase, working on products used at large volume.

- Ability to simplify messy, ambiguous problems into clear, buildable specifications.

- Solid understanding of technical constraints and a habit of working closely with engineers.

- Excellent communication and storytelling skills across teams and levels of an organization.

- Multiple promotions within a single company.

- Work samples that display excellent visual polish and interaction design that is attractive yet practical.

- A self-starter who moves quickly in a fast-paced environment.

Bonus points

- Prior work on intricate products in demanding business categories such as finance tools, software-as-a-service or enterprise platforms.

- Degree from a major design school.

**Benefits**

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: $165K to $289K per year

- Equity

Location and work model

- Hybrid, in New York, San Francisco or Seattle

- Full-time

- New York, New York, United States

- San Francisco, California, United States

- South Bay Area, United States

- Los Angeles, California, United States

- Boston, Massachusetts, United States

- Seattle, Washington, United States

- Texas, United States

- Chicago, Illinois, United States

- Washington, District of Columbia, United States

- Denver, Colorado, United States

- Florida, United States

- Minnesota, United States

- Sacramento, California, United States