VP of Product Design

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🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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Pencil

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📣 Marketing

🤝 B2B

💰 $2.8M Seed Round - Pencil on 2020-04

Artificial Intelligence • Marketing • B2B

Pencil is an AI-driven creative platform for marketers and brands. It uses generative artificial intelligence to produce ad creative (images and video) and concept variations designed for performance marketing and e-commerce advertisers, helping teams scale creative production and test many ad variants quickly. Pencil is positioned as a B2B tool for marketing teams and agencies.

📋 Description

• Bring product design and UX into a single team with one quality bar • Establish design culture, critique, rituals, and shared ambition • Partner with product and engineering to ship features on time and on-system • Improve design speed, turnaround times, and planning through AI tools and the design system • Review, improve, and implement Pencil’s design system across the product • Establish design-system tokens in code and a component library for engineering • Define guidelines for AI-generated UI to remain on-system • Define interaction models for briefing, running, supervising, reviewing, and approving agent work • Design for enterprise governance, control, trust, practitioner speed, and creative range • Establish design-review processes and collaboration rituals across design, product, and engineering • Define team structure, levels, career paths, and hiring • Collaborate with Marketing Design to align product and brand • Bring design into discovery and research and conduct post-launch reviews • Hire and lead design engineers • Build accessibility into the design system • In the first 90 days, meet designers, learn the product and customers, review the system, ship a shared pattern, and agree review and contribution models • By month 6, standardize key user flows and establish team structure, levels, and rituals • By month 12, make on-system shipping the default and reduce duplicated components

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in product design, with 5+ years leading teams of designers, including other leads • Experience building a design culture • Creative ambition beyond the functional brief • Experience taking an existing design system and achieving adoption in a fast-moving B2B product • Experience with complex enterprise software, including workflows, permissions, review and approval, and dense data • Daily use of AI tools and understanding of coding agents in design workflows • Knowledge of design-system tokens, component APIs, and front-end constraints • Strong hands-on product design craft • Experience leading organizational change • Experience designing AI or agent products, creative or marketing tools, or leading teams across time zones is helpful

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days PTO plus public holidays, although we operate a Flexible Time Off scheme • Health insurance / private medical cover • Monthly stipend towards wellness, fitness, and learning and development • Remote: work from anywhere in your home country • Enhanced parental leave policies, whether you become a parent through birth, adoption or surrogacy • Access to our Pencil office in The Shard, London for UK employees • Flexible working hours

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