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Head of Design

Profound· Design
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New York, New York$265k - $365kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Head of Design to lead and grow the design team, set the vision for an AI-native product, and ensure high-quality shipping across Profound’s platform. Reports to CTO and partners with founders and leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Set the design vision: define the long-term direction for Profound’s product experience and a cohesive design language across the platform, and bring clarity to complex workflows
  • Shape product strategy: partner with the founders and product and engineering leadership on what we build, why, and how. Design is a central voice in product decisions, not a function that executes against them
  • Lead and grow the team: level up our existing designers, hire the ones who come next, and build a culture of high standards, strong ownership, and honest critique as we scale
  • Lead through craft: stay close to the work through product judgment, visual and interaction design, and hands-on exploration. Challenge assumptions and push the team toward experiences that are both beautiful and deeply functional
  • Define AI-native experiences: create new interaction patterns for software that doesn’t just respond to users but works on their behalf, bringing agents, complex data, and human judgment together in ways that feel intuitive
  • Move fast without losing quality: build the principles, systems, and rituals that let the team prototype, learn from customers, and ship quickly
  • Stay close to customers: use research, product intuition, and data to make sure what we build solves real problems and makes marketers better at their jobs

Qualifications

  • You’ve led product design at an ambitious, high-growth technology company, setting vision, building teams, and influencing company-level product direction
  • You have exceptional taste and a portfolio of shipped, beautifully executed products, and you know how to bring others up to your bar
  • You’ve hired and developed great designers, and you’ve raised the quality of a team you inherited, not just one you built from scratch
  • You see design and product strategy as inseparable; you navigate ambiguity, find the right problems to solve, and influence founders, executives, and engineers
  • You’ve designed sophisticated software, ideally B2B platforms, analytics, data visualization, or complex workflows, and know how to make powerful products feel simple
  • You’re hands-on: equally comfortable presenting a long-term vision, coaching a designer through a hard problem, or jumping into Figma or code to prototype an idea yourself
  • You’re energized by AI, actively experiment with new tools, and have strong opinions about how AI will change both products and the practice of design

Skills

Required:Product design leadershipTeam building and mentorship

Benefits

  • Base salary and equity
  • Full range of benefits and perks
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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