Product Design Lead

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🕒 August 4

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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Academy

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1 - 10 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🎯 Recruiter

Consulting • Marketing • Recruitment

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, 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 • Collaborate with the Big Human design team to solve complex product and UI challenges and contribute hands-on design work when needed • Provide feedback and guidance to maintain high visual standards and best practices • Lead, mentor, and guide designers at individual and team levels with strategic design direction • Articulate and defend design decisions to clients and internal stakeholders • Navigate ambiguity and pivot quickly in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment • Oversee and provide creative direction across 1–2 additional concurrent projects, guiding designers to maintain quality and consistency • Shape the creative direction and design culture of Big Human, a technology, design, and branding agency

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of product design experience, with agency experience required • 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 for articulating design decisions to clients and stakeholders • Expert-level Figma proficiency • Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite • Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines and willing to ask questions during uncertainty • For US applicants: US citizenship or Green Card Holder status required • For Canadian applicants: Canadian citizenship, East Coast residence, and ability to work EST timezone required

🏖️ 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