Lead Product Designer
$80,000–$150,000 year
On-siteVienna, Vienna, Austria
EXPIREDVienna, Vienna, AustriaOn-siteFull Time$80,000–$150,000 yearSenior LevelStartup
Full TimeSenior LevelStartup
Job Summary
Take full ownership of product design, branding, and the design team across three distinct product areas. Drive hands-on work including customer interviews, evolving the brand, and setting visual standards for website and product. Lead and scale the design function while collaborating closely with founders and engineering in short feedback loops to ship high-impact daily releases. Conduct regular conversations with target users to build deep customer understanding and measure design decisions against data. Maintain and scale design systems for consistent implementation across multiple product areas.
Required Qualifications
- Native German speaker (Deutsch)
- Good English proficiency
- Proven experience leading or managing design teams
- Strong demonstrated intent to step into design leadership while maintaining craft
- 5+ years of end-to-end product design experience
- Ownership across multiple product areas
- Hands-on product design expertise with Figma
- Prototyping skills
- User research/interviews skills
- Experience owning branding
- Website design experience
- Product design experience
- Ability to set and uphold standards across branding, website, and product design
- Analytics-driven design mindset
- Ability to measure design decisions and iterate based on data
- Solid experience building and scaling design systems across multiple product areas
- Comfortable using modern AI tools (e.g. Cursor, v0, Claude) to accelerate design and prototyping
- On-site role based in Vienna, Austria
- Based in or willing to relocate to Vienna
Desired Qualifications
- Experience building and maintaining a design system at scale across a growing product portfolio
- Domain familiarity with B2B software
- Domain familiarity with professional services
- Domain familiarity with CRM-like environments
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