Lead Product Designer

Summary

Join Vivun, a leading provider of AI-powered technical sales solutions, as a Lead Product Designer. You will lead user research, shape the design vision for our product suite, and create high-fidelity user experiences. This role requires collaboration with various teams, including executive leadership, product managers, engineers, and AI experts. You will mentor the design team and ensure design quality across all platforms. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in product design, particularly in enterprise SaaS and AI-centric products, and demonstrates strong leadership and communication skills. Vivun offers a competitive salary, full health benefits, stock options, unlimited PTO, and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• 8+ Years in Product Design: A track record designing enterprise/B2B SaaS, AI-centric products, or complex workflows is required
• Proven Leadership: Prior experience leading or coaching design teams
• Strong Portfolio: Demonstrated user-centric design thinking, polished UI craftsmanship, and innovative interaction paradigms
• User Research Expertise: Hands-on experience with interviews, usability testing, and synthesizing insights into actionable design requirements
• Technical Prototyping Skills: Ability to rapidly prototype in code (HTML/CSS/JS) or other tools to communicate concepts and validate ideas
• Excellent Communication: Ability to present design decisions clearly, collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners, and can influence without direct authority
• Agile Mindset: Comfortable working in iterative sprints, prioritizing tasks, and juggling multiple projects at once

Responsibilities

• Lead User Research & Discovery: Plan and conduct user research to validate hypotheses, uncover new insights, and ensure product decisions align with real-world needs
• Shape Our Design Vision: Define and refine the design strategy, principles, and systems that guide our agentic product line across web and mobile
• Create High-Fidelity Experiences: Drive the entire design process—from sketches and wireframes to polished interfaces and rapid prototypes that showcase AI capabilities
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with our executive team, Product Managers, Engineers, and AI experts to deliver seamless, AI-powered user flows and experiences
• Maintain Design Quality: Uphold and improve our design system, ensuring brand consistency and excellent usability across all touchpoints
• Coach & Mentor: Mentor and develop our design team through regular 1:1’s, setting goals and providing feedback to foster continual growth
• Ship & Iterate Quickly: In a fast-paced environment, balance speed and quality—delivering high-impact solutions without sacrificing good design principles

Preferred Qualifications

• Aligned to Our Values: Ownership. Empathy. We, not me. Transparency. Be different
• Passionate About AI: You’re excited by emerging technologies and seek opportunities to push the boundaries of what’s possible with agentic experiences
• User-Obsessed: You believe great products start with deep user insight. You’re energized by talking to users, uncovering pain points, and translating those into remarkable design solutions
• Comfortable with Ambiguity: High-growth startups move fast. You excel at clarifying direction amidst shifting priorities and thrive in dynamic environments
• Collaborative and Communicative: You value teaching as much as learning, and you articulate design rationale effectively across the organization. You listen closely to feedback and use it to inform better outcomes

Benefits

• Competitive salary and full health benefits
• Stock Options at well funded, pre-IPO company on a fast growth track
• Unlimited PTO with two weeks designated as “quiet period” each year
• An experienced team who will fight beside you in the trenches to shape the future of agentic products that empower users and deliver meaningful impact
• $180,000 - $200,000 a year