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About The Position

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in product design.
• 5+ years leading teams of designers, including other leads.
• Experience building a design culture and inspiring designers.
• Experience taking an existing design system and driving its adoption in a fast-moving B2B product, with evidence of adoption beyond the component library.
• Experience with complex enterprise software, including workflows, permissions, review and approval, and dense data.
• Regular use of AI tools in design and understanding of how coding agents affect design workflows.
• Ability to work with engineering on tokens, component APIs, and front-end constraints.
• Strong hands-on design craft and ability to improve screens directly.
• Experience leading organizational change and earning the trust of teams that have worked without a design leader, including bringing existing leads along.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing AI or agent products.
• Experience designing creative or marketing tools.
• Experience leading teams across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Bring product design and UX into a single design function with one quality bar, while designers work within product squads.
• Inspire the design team and establish a culture of critique, shared rituals, and creative ambition.
• Partner with product and engineering to ship features on time and in accordance with the design system, while raising the level of craft and delight.
• Set design turnaround times, use AI tools and the design system to speed up design work, and track design timelines for squad planning.
• Review the existing design system, address gaps, and implement it across the product, including tokens in code and a component library consumed by engineering.
• Make the design system the source for AI coding tools and create written guidelines to keep AI-generated UI on-system.
• Define interaction patterns for briefing, running, supervising, reviewing, and approving agent work.
• Design for both enterprise buyers’ needs for governance, control, and trust and practitioners’ needs for speed and creative range.
• Establish design review, pattern approval, and shared working rituals across design, product, and engineering.
• Shape team structure, levels, career paths, and hiring.
• Work with Marketing Design to align the product experience and brand.
• Bring design into discovery, work with product research to ground design decisions in customer evidence, and use post-launch reviews to assess results.
• Hire and lead design engineers who translate the system into code used by engineering and AI coding tools.
• Build accessibility into the design system so features meet enterprise customer expectations.
• In the first 90 days, learn the product, squads, customers, and team; review the system; ship one shared pattern across two features; and agree on design review and contribution practices with the CTO and product leads.
• By month six, make the most-used user flows consistent and put team structure, levels, and rituals in place.
• By month twelve, ensure new features ship on-system by default, reduce duplicated components, and help customers experience Pencil as one product.

Benefits

• 25 days PTO plus public holidays, with a Flexible Time Off scheme.
• Health insurance / private medical cover.
• Monthly stipend toward wellness, fitness, and learning and development.
• Remote work from anywhere in the employee’s home country.
• Enhanced parental leave for parents through birth, adoption, or surrogacy.
• Access to the Pencil office in The Shard, London for UK employees.
• Flexible working hours.