Lead Product Designer

Summary

Join Deel, a global leader in international payroll and compliance, and be part of a team dedicated to revolutionizing how companies hire worldwide. As a Lead Product Designer, you will deeply analyze customer needs, create innovative solutions, and lead your team in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You will take ownership of the entire design process, from ideation to post-release, and work across multiple platforms. This role requires extensive experience in product design, UX/UI, and design systems, along with strong leadership and mentoring skills. Deel offers competitive compensation, benefits, and a flexible remote work environment.

Requirements

• Be passionate about design
• Able to learn fast
• Experienced on mentoring and managing product designers (the ability to give constructive feedback to enable product designers to learn and progress)
• Previously worked for minimum of 5-7 years experience as product designer in fast paced environment (ideally scale up/ start up)
• Currently on working as lead product designer and have a minimum of 2 years experience leading in face paced environment (ideally scale up/ start up)
• Have strong knowledge and practice in both UX and UI
• Experienced in design systems
• Autonomous force multiplier for their team and designers around them
• Know when to go deep on a task and when to execute
• Experienced with being embedded into a development team with light touch from the product manager. We believe that the work comes from everyone, not just top down
• Be comfortable with being involved with the end to end development process. From ideation to design QA - you feed and unblock the team
• For this role, you will need to be in EMEA or LATAM time zone

Responsibilities

• Deeply analyse customers and business problems to identify the pain points
• Rapidly create impactful and elegant solutions to problems
• Strategically think of the product from high level to connect the missing dots
• Update the acceptance criteria and define the logic to your work
• Take full cycle ownership of your work from ideation, design, review and feedback in the final test build and after release
• Co-lead their team with Product managers and Developers
• Actively gives feedback and mentors designers in your team
• Perform design reviews and one to one
• Drive the vision for your product, aligning your team on a better future state
• Steer the group’s design execution toward reaching business goals
• Work holistically across multiple platforms to solve problems - The employee portal, the employer portal, and the admin dashboard for customer support
• Above all - Be part of the journey to redefine a way of working for people all round the world

Preferred Qualifications

Higher education in related fields

Benefits

• Provided computer equipment tailored to your role
• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• The flexibility of remote work, including WeWork access where available