Director of Design - fully remote!

Inflect

2d • Remote

About The Position

As the Director of Design at Inflect, you report directly to the VP of Technology and will sit within the Engineering team and lead our design function with true authority. This is a highly visible and strategic hands-on role where you set the UI/UX and brand direction, make the tough calls, and relentlessly drive them into our shipped product and marketing surfaces. This isn't a role for someone who just wants to manage a strategy; it's for an operator-leader who demands a studio-grade craft bar and understands the technical nuances of bringing designs to life. Working tightly with Engineering, Marketing, and Product, you will transform complex, data-dense workflows into intuitive, beautiful experiences. You are the architect of Inflect’s visual language, ensuring our digital infrastructure marketplace looks, feels, and moves better than anything else in the industry — on par with the best studio-built sites on the web.

Requirements

• 8+ years in product and digital brand design, including direct experience leading and managing designers.
• Owned design decisions with real authority in prior roles — you made the call and drove it to shipped, not just produced the mock-up.
• Deep experience partnering with frontend engineering (Next.js/TypeScript) to ensure motion, interaction, and craft survive implementation; fluent in Figma and Framer (or a fast ramp on Framer), with enough front-end literacy to collaborate on execution.
• Demonstrated ability to turn genuinely complex, data-dense flows (dashboards, configurators, geospatial UIs) into intuitive, elegant interfaces.
• Strong across both product UX and brand/marketing design, and comfortable acting as Marketing's primary design partner.

Nice To Haves

• A motion-forward, scroll-driven portfolio at a studio-grade bar — motion, transitions, micro-interactions, and custom iconography.
• 3D/WebGL, Lottie/After Effects, or similar collaboration with engineering on motion.
• B2B or marketplace product design; data-visualization and geospatial UX.
• Experience with a full brand strategy exercise — positioning, audience, and voice through to visual identity — ideally having led one, or at minimum as a core contributor.
• Experience building and scaling a design function from an early stage, ideally in a startup or high-growth environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design function with authority, setting the UI/UX and brand direction, making the crucial calls, and driving them into shipped product and marketing surfaces.
• Hold absolute accountability for the design team - hiring, growing, and mentoring talent while setting and enforcing the uncompromising standards the function works to.
• Own the visual, interaction, and motion design of Inflect across the marketing site (Framer) and the core product (Next.js/TypeScript) to a studio-grade craft bar.
• Own and continually evolve the design system, the typographic system, and the overall visual language, keeping them coherent across product and brand.
• Lead design for genuinely complex, high-stakes flows, including the quote configurator, data-dense dashboards, and geospatial/RouteFinder UIs.
• Partner tightly with frontend engineering to ensure motion, interaction, and craft survive implementation; prototype flawlessly using Figma, Framer, and/or code-aware tooling.
• Act as a tight partner to Marketing as a primary stakeholder, co-owning the craft of inflect.com and aligning brand and visual direction with overarching marketing goals and campaigns.

Benefits

• Fully covered health insurance options through a major health insurance provider for both you and your family (you pay $0)
• 100% remote work environment
• Unlimited PTO
• Dental and Vision insurance available with widely used providers
• Option grants begin vesting after year 1 - you own a piece of Inflect

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed