VP, Product Design

Overview

As VP of Product Design, you will shape the end-to-end application layer for developers, merchandisers, and business teams to build AI-driven search and discovery experiences. You’ll lead a technical design org, champion AI-native workflows, and steward Satellite, the design system that enforces consistency and velocity. You’ll partner with Product, Eng, and GTM to translate strategy into measurable adoption and impact. This is a chance to influence how billions of end users interact with intelligent systems at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• Base Salary GBP 158,000–197,000
• Flexible workplace strategy
• Remote or hybrid options
• Global offices (Paris, NYC, London, Sydney, Bucharest)
• Inclusive culture and high-trust environment
• Autonomy and contribution over location

Responsibilities

• Define product design vision and strategy for the application experience, from onboarding to enterprise-grade orchestration, linked to measurable outcomes.
• Establish AI design standards for agentic UX—trust, explainability, human-in-the-loop controls, and handling of probabilistic states.
• Oversee Satellite Design System as a product—roadmap, governance, adoption metrics, and AI-native evolution for conversational interfaces.
• Build and scale a technical product design organization (designers, engineers, researchers, content designers) including hiring and leadership development.
• Uphold high usability and performance standards across core search experiences before market release.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and GTM at the executive level to translate design impact into business terms.

Key requirements

• 15+ years in product design
• 6+ years leading design organizations (managers of managers) in B2B SaaS or developer platforms
• Proven AI-native design leadership with shipped AI/ML-driven experiences
• Technical depth: front-end fundamentals (React, component architecture, design tokens), APIs, understanding of LLM-based systems (latency, non-determinism, hallucination)
• Experience owning a complex technical application for developer and business audiences
• Hands-on experience scaling a design system with cross-organizational adoption
• AI-augmented personal practice using AI tools in daily workflows
• Executive presence with ability to communicate design impact to C-level stakeholders
• Track record growing design teams and developing leaders

• Executive presence
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Strategic thinking
• React
• Component architecture
• Design tokens

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