Lead Product Designer

Summary

Join CompanyCam as a Lead Product Designer and set the vision and experience strategy for a designated product area. This role blends strategy, mentorship, and execution, guiding design decisions from discovery to delivery and supporting other designers. You will ensure the quality and cohesion of the final product experience, reporting to the Director of Product Design and partnering with product managers, engineers, and other designers. The position is remote for US residents, with the option to visit headquarters for up to 10 days annually. CompanyCam values teamwork, strategic design, customer-centricity, continuous improvement, and measurable impact. The ideal candidate will have extensive product design experience, a strong portfolio, and excellent communication and collaboration skills. The company offers a competitive salary, equity, and other benefits.

Requirements

• 6+ years of product design experience, including time spent in senior or lead-level roles
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates product thinking, craft, and impact across web and/or mobile experiences
• Experience guiding the work of other designers and elevating team output through critique, mentorship, and strategic direction
• Deep understanding of user-centered design principles, with the ability to simplify complex workflows and make them intuitive
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills—you can rally a team, influence stakeholders, and make the case for good design
• A bias toward action—you’re comfortable operating in ambiguity and pushing through to clarity
• A love of feedback—you actively seek it, give it generously, and use it to grow
• You’ve actively experimented with AI tools to improve discovery, workflows, or visual design—and can speak to what’s worked and what hasn’t

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end experience strategy for a core product area, setting direction and ensuring cohesion across touchpoints
• Deliver exceptional UI design that meets consumer-grade standards, creating polished interfaces that delight users and elevate our product experience
• Provide design mentorship and feedback to designers in your area, raising the quality and clarity of their work
• Partner closely with PMs and engineers to frame customer problems, run discovery, and ship high-quality solutions quickly
• Contribute hands-on to the design work when needed, especially during early-stage problem-solving or complex interaction design
• Guiding strategic design decisions, ensuring we are solving the right problems in the right way
• Representing design in key strategic decisions—balancing customer needs, technical feasibility, and business goals
• Driving cross-functional collaboration through great facilitation, clear thinking, and compelling storytelling

Preferred Qualifications

• You’ve led design work in a SaaS product, especially one with mobile-first use cases
• You’re familiar with the ideas in Continuous Discovery Habits and bring a discovery mindset to your work
• You have a solid grasp of HTML/CSS or front-end implementation trade-offs
• You’ve designed for users in industries like construction, field service, or logistics
• You’ve worked on AI-powered features, and know how to design around model behavior and user expectations

Benefits

• This is a salaried position at CompanyCam
• Our starting salary range is $180,000-$195,000 per year and is based on experience
• We also offer meaningful equity and other benefits
• Remote: Candidates must permanently and currently reside in the United States
• Employees are not required to work in the office or relocate to Lincoln, Nebraska, for this opportunity
• Employees are encouraged to come hang at headquarters for up to 10 days per calendar year on CompanyCam’s dime