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Product Design Lead

Humaans· Product Design
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LondonFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Product Design Lead role to shape direction and lead design of key product areas at Humaans. Hands-on leadership combining craft with strategic decisions, translating complex requirements into simple, intuitive experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and oversee multiple product areas from early exploration through to launch
  • Own strategic design decisions and help shape the direction of the product
  • Design end-to-end flows and experiences that make complex workflows feel simple and intuitive
  • Connect our business vision with customer needs, turning them into thoughtful and useful product experiences
  • Define how experiences behave and establish interaction patterns that create consistency across the product
  • Shape and evolve our visual language across typography, colour, layout, iconography and overall aesthetic
  • Work closely with Engineering to translate complex technical architectures into simple, intuitive user interactions
  • Set a high bar for design quality while balancing craft with the pace and changing priorities of a growing company
  • Articulate the thinking behind your decisions clearly and bring the broader team along through your work

Qualifications

  • A strong individual contributor with the leadership skills and judgement to influence product direction
  • Experience leading the design of significant product areas and making strategic decisions about how products evolve
  • Excellent interaction design skills, with the ability to define behaviours, flows and patterns across a product
  • Exceptional visual design craft and strong judgement across typography, colour, layout, hierarchy, iconography and aesthetics
  • Strong product thinking and an ability to connect customer needs, business objectives and design decisions
  • The confidence to form a point of view, make decisions and explain the reasoning and trade-offs behind them
  • Experience working closely with engineers and navigating technical complexity to arrive at simple solutions
  • The ability to execute at speed without compromising the quality and thoughtfulness of the experience
  • Comfort operating with autonomy and navigating the changing priorities of a growing startup

Skills

Required:Leadership and strategy in product designInteraction designVisual designProduct thinkingCollaboration with engineers

Benefits

  • Market-leading compensation that reflects your value
  • 25 days paid time off each year plus public holidays
  • Share Options with 5-year exercise window
  • Quarterly team events, and company offsites
  • Top tier private coverage for health, vision and dental care
  • A new MacBook and tools you need to do your best work
  • Enhanced parental leave with up to 16 weeks for primary and 4 weeks for secondary
  • Learning & development budget
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Humaans

AI-Powered HRIS for high performing teams

Humaans is a next generation HRIS supporting globally distributed organisations. Powered by a flexible data model, deep integrations, fast APIs, and enriched by AI, Humaans removes manual work, reduce compliance risk and enhance your employee experience. Humaans reduces ongoing administrative work by 65% and onboarding time by an average of 55%. We've raised $20 million in VC funding to date. Investors include major Tech players such as Lachy Groom; Slack founder Stewart Butterfield; Shopify founder Tobias Lütke; Figma Founder Dylan Field; Linkedin ex-CEO Jeff Weiner; Stripe COO Claire Johnson; Y Combinator; Moonfire; Frontline Ventures; Exor and more.

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