Product Design Lead
Beam Impact· Product
Hybrid (NYC or remote US)$181.5k - $203.5k + bonusFull timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Sole product designer responsible for user experience architecture, visual identity, and building a scalable design system. Lead end-to-end product design, establish design processes, and steward brand and marketing assets.
Responsibilities
- End-to-End Product Design: Lead the design process for key product initiatives—from discovery, user research, and wireframing to high-fidelity mockups, prototyping, and detailed hand-off to engineers.
- Design System Architecture: Create, document, and maintain a comprehensive design system (from foundational elements to complex components) that ensures consistency, speeds up development, and scales with our product and team.
- User Advocacy: Conduct user research and usability testing to gather insights, validate concepts, and ensure our product effectively solves the real-world problems of our users in the social impact space.
- Strategic Partnership: Collaborate closely with the Product team, CTO, CEO, and Engineering leads to define the product roadmap, contribute to product strategy, and advocate for the user experience.
- Foundational Build-out: Establish design best practices, tools, and workflows within the product team. You will set the standard for quality and efficiency in product development.
- Website & Brand Stewardship: Take ownership of the Beam Impact website built on Framer, updating and designing pages to support campaigns, launches, and brand initiatives.
- Team Leadership & Mentorship: Provide guidance to a junior integrations designer, ensuring quality and consistency of embedded components and integration touchpoints.
- Brand Stewardship: Maintain and evolve the Beam Impact brand identity across product and marketing touchpoints.
- Marketing & Sales Design: Create marketing assets including sales decks, email templates, case studies, social content, and other assets to drive growth.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in product design with a focus on UI/UX for web and mobile applications
- Proven track record designing for SaaS products, ideally in fast-paced or high-growth environments
- Portfolio showcasing elegant, data-driven solutions to complex design challenges
- Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD) and expertise across responsive web and mobile
- Deep understanding of technical constraints and opportunities, enabling close collaboration with engineers
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining design systems and pattern libraries
- Strong analytical mindset and experience using sales, product, or client data to inform design decisions
- Experience leading end-to-end design for products or major feature initiatives
- Expert knowledge of UI/UX best practices, accessibility standards, and user-centered design principles
- Proven experience in creating and maintaining a design system from the ground up
- Proven ability to manage and mentor junior design talent, providing constructive feedback and elevating the team's overall output
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions clearly and persuasively to technical and non-technical audiences
Skills
Required:UI/UX designDesign systemsPrototyping and toolingCollaboration with cross-functional teamsDesign leadership and mentorship
Benefits
- Equity Ownership
- Base salary with range and eligible bonus
- Stock options
- 50% match on 401k contributions up to 6% of base salary
- $100 monthly wellness stipend
- $750 annual professional development budget
- Health, dental, vision, and 401k benefits
- Flexible remote-friendly work culture with outcome-focused approach
Last updated Jun 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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