Head of Product Design

Clera • San Francisco, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

A fast-growing, Series A/B AI-powered procurement intelligence platform for the industrial and manufacturing sector is looking for a Head of Product Design to define how humans and AI agents collaborate across their product. This is a high-impact leadership role where you will shape interaction paradigms, build a design team, and make complex procurement decisions legible and trustworthy for non-analyst users. Your work will directly influence profitability for large industrial customers and set the standard for agent-native product experiences.

Requirements

• 6+ years of product design experience, with at least 2+ years leading design teams at high-growth technology companies known for design excellence.
• Deep experience designing data-heavy, workflow-driven products where information density is an asset, not a liability.
• Proven track record building and maintaining design systems and component architectures for complex software products.
• Genuine fluency with AI as a design material — a clear point of view on LLMs, agents, and automation, with hands-on experience designing UX for AI/LLM-driven products.
• Strong systems thinking: you design in frameworks and patterns, not just screens.
• Demonstrated ability to move fluidly between strategic leadership and hands-on craft.
• Strong collaborator with product and engineering, with proven stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field.
• Fluent in English; German is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the interaction paradigm for agent-driven procurement workflows — where AI agents execute and humans supervise, steer, and handle exceptions.
• Develop mental models, UI patterns, and frameworks that make dense procurement concepts (e.g. should-costing, raw material indices, contract leakage) accessible and actionable.
• Own and evolve the design system and component architecture to support agent-driven development and rapid product iteration.
• Build, hire, and lead a team of approximately four product designers, setting the bar for craft, speed, and strategic impact.
• Establish design as a strategic partner in the product trio alongside product management and engineering.
• Champion UX research best practices and drive company-wide understanding of real user problems.
• Collaborate closely with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to align design strategy with business goals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior