Design Leader – Software Design

Role Overview

• Lead and develop a high-performing design organization
• Mentor and develop designers
• Set a compelling, coherent design vision
• Elevate craft through active participation
• Define and steward the design system
• Partner with product and engineering without ceding design authority
• Build and steward the team
• Champion AI-enabled design workflows

Requirements

• Extensive experience (typically 10+ years) in software design, product design, or interaction design for digital products, including significant time in consumer or health tech environments.
• Proven leadership experience (3+ years) managing and growing UX teams in a product development organization, including setting clear expectations across different levels.
• A portfolio that demonstrates sustained ownership of complex, multi-surface experiences with clear evidence of your design thinking, not just team output. We want to understand your role in shaping outcomes, not just artifacts, especially in highly ambiguous or multi-quarter initiatives.
• Deep fluency across interaction design, information architecture, visual hierarchy, motion, and systems thinking. You’ve shipped polished, coherent consumer software and you understand the difference between good and great at the detail level.
• Track record of improving experience quality in measurable ways through engagement signals, satisfaction scores, qualitative research findings, or reduced friction in core user flows.
• Demonstrated excellence in Operational Excellence (strong craft and execution on complex, multi-platform products) and Impact (connecting software design work to clear product outcomes).
• Strong evidence of Collaboration and Leadership: building effective cross-functional relationships, influencing senior stakeholders, and creating healthy, inclusive team cultures.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership and facilitating complex design decisions.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Lunch benefit
• Wellness benefit
• Flexible working hours
• Collaborative, smart teammates
• An Oura ring of your own
• Wellness Time Off