Product Design Lead
Imagen
Product, Design
Posted on Jan 7, 2026
Product Design Lead
- Product
- careers
- Senior
- Full-time
Description
We are looking for a Product Design Lead to take ownership of UX quality across Imagen’s product.
- This is a hands-on leadership role, not a full people-management position.
- You will define UX standards, build foundations, mentor designers, and directly contribute to meaningful product work alongside product and engineering.
- You will take a central role in shaping the UX direction of Imagen’s product as it evolves into a broader, more complex platform.
Why Join Us?
- Real ownership over a category-defining product.
- Direct impact on product quality and company direction.
- Small team, high leverage, high standards.
- Close collaboration with product, engineering, and leadership.
- A role designed for builders.
- If you’re excited by complex product problems, care deeply about UX quality, and want to lead by doing it just might fit you.
Responsibilities
Own product UX quality:
- Take end-to-end responsibility for the user experience across our apps.
- Lead design and UX reviews with a high professional bar.
- Contribute hands-on to core product initiatives.
Build foundations:
- Define UX principles, standards, and decision frameworks.
- Build and evolve the design system, patterns, and guidelines.
- Create consistency and clarity across a growing product surface area.
- Partner closely with Product Managers and Engineering to shape solutions.
Lead by example:
- Mentor and professionally guide a small team of product designers.
- Provide clear, actionable critique focused on structure, hierarchy, and user goals.
- Own design quality and prioritization within the design team.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in product design.
- Deep UX and system-thinking skills, beyond visual polish.
- Proven experience leading complex product areas hands-on.
- Experience building or owning design systems or UX standards.
- Strong product and business understanding.
- Comfortable making UX decisions with incomplete data and real-world constraints.
- Preference for hands-on work over people management.