Lead Product Designer
About the Role
This is a high-ownership design leadership role at a fast-growing AI-powered business communication SaaS company serving SMEs across the DACH region and beyond. You will shape product design, brand, and team direction while staying hands-on, working closely with founders and engineering to ship at high velocity with direct customer access.
What You'll Do
Own end-to-end product design, branding, and design-team leadership, splitting your time roughly equally between hands-on craft and team direction.
Lead design across three product areas in continuous collaboration with product and engineering stakeholders.
Conduct regular customer interviews with SME customers such as tradespeople, medical practices, and professional service firms to build deep user understanding.
Define and maintain the design standard across product, web, and brand.
Build and scale design systems to ensure consistent execution across multiple product areas.
Contribute to fast feedback loops with founders and engineers to enable daily releases.
Leverage modern AI tools to accelerate and enhance the design process.
What We're Looking For
At least five years of end-to-end product design experience with ownership across multiple product areas.
Proven expertise in Figma, prototyping, and user research including customer interviews.
Experience leading or mentoring a design team, or a demonstrated readiness to step into that responsibility while remaining hands-on.
Solid background in building and scaling design systems across a multi-product environment.
Experience owning brand and website design alongside core product design.
Analytics-driven mindset: you measure design decisions and iterate based on data.
Familiarity with modern AI tools such as Cursor, v0, or Claude to accelerate design workflows.
Native-level German (essential for the DACH market) and good professional English for an international team.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary range: 80,000 to 150,000 EUR annually. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
Location
On-site in Vienna, Austria.