Head of Design

Nooks • San Francisco, CA

9d

About The Position

As Head of Design, you will own the design vision and execution across the entire Nooks product.. You will be responsible for ensuring the platform is intuitive, beautiful, and built for the real workflows of modern revenue teams. This will initially lead a small team.

This role is both strategic and hands-on and you’ll set the design direction for the company while also diving deep into product details. You’ll work closely with product, engineering, and GTM leaders to translate complex problems into elegant user experiences.

You will be building the future design organization with AI, establishing the systems, culture, and standards that allow design to scale as the company grows.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product design experience
• Experiencing managing designers
• A strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional UX, product thinking, and visual design
• Experience designing complex SaaS products or workflow tools
• A track record of building and scaling design teams in fast-growing startups
• Ability to move fluidly between high-level product strategy and hands-on design execution
• Strong cross-functional leadership with product, engineering, and GTM teams
• Passion for building products that users love and rely on every day
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup environment

Responsibilities

• Define the design vision for Nooks and ensure a cohesive experience across the entire product
• Lead and grow the design team, recruiting and mentoring exceptional product designers
• Own the end-to-end product experience, from early discovery and concepting through polished execution
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to shape the product roadmap and ship high-impact features
• Translate complex AI and workflow problems into simple, intuitive interfaces
• Build scalable design systems that enable consistency and velocity across the product
• Champion the voice of the user, grounding design decisions in research, feedback, and real customer workflows
• Raise the design bar across the company, influencing product thinking and user experience at every level

What This Job Offers

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