Product Design Lead

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🕒 May 18

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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Academy

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1 - 10 employees

🎯 Recruiter

🤝 B2B

Recruitment • Design • B2B

Academy is a UX staffing and recruiting agency that provides flexible UX talent solutions for companies. Offering services in contractor placement, full-time employment, and fully managed studio services, Academy helps organizations scale their UX teams with pre-vetted talent. With a pool of over 5000 UX professionals, Academy focuses on finding the right fit for roles in product design, UX research, product management, UI design, and more. Academy is committed to mentoring and developing UX talent, ensuring clients receive high-quality professionals to meet their design needs.

📋 Description

• Lead design projects from start to finish with autonomy and authority, including discovery, ideation, workshops, definition, high-fidelity design, design systems, handoff, and visual QA • Plan and facilitate design workshops, client reviews, user research, and user testing sessions • Work collaboratively with the Big Human design team to solve complex product and UI challenges; contribute hands-on design work when needed • Provide feedback and guidance to ensure work meets high visual standards and incorporates best practices • Lead, mentor, and guide designers at both an individual and team level with high-level strategic design direction • Articulate and defend design decisions clearly to clients and internal stakeholders • Navigate ambiguity and pivot quickly with changing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment • Oversee and provide creative direction across 1–2 additional concurrent projects beyond your own hands-on work, guiding other designers to maintain quality and consistency

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of product design experience, with agency experience required • A high-caliber portfolio showcasing complex products with strong visual design, UI/UX, prototyping, typography, and visual hierarchy • Masterful knowledge of user-centric and data-informed product design; strategic decision-making rooted in data, research, analytics, and business context • Experience designing mobile apps, web products, and marketing websites • Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate design decisions to clients and stakeholders • Expert-level Figma proficiency and working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite • Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines and a willingness to ask questions in times of uncertainty

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical: Up to $950/month company contribution (~$11,400/year) • Dental: 100% of premiums covered (~$700/year) • Vision: 100% of premiums covered (~$100/year) • 401(k) with 3% salary match • Home internet reimbursement: $900/year • Home office upgrade stipend: $960/year • Shared experience fund: $960/year • Coworking stipend: $960/year • Education stipend: $1,500/year • 10–16 weeks parental leave • 14 paid holidays + generous vacation time • Summer Fridays • Donation matching • Yearly team retreat + quarterly coworking events