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This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Head of Product Design in Brazil.
This role is a high-impact leadership opportunity for a design professional who wants to shape both product experience and design culture at scale.
You will define the visual language, UX direction, and overall design standards across product and brand experiences.
Working in a fast-moving, AI-enabled environment, you will balance strategic leadership with hands-on execution as a player-coach.
The role involves close collaboration with product, engineering, and marketing leaders to improve how ideas are shaped and delivered.
You will lead a small but growing design team while directly influencing product strategy and customer experience outcomes.
This is an opportunity to elevate design maturity, improve usability, and create cohesive experiences that directly impact small business success.
Your work will shape how customers interact with the product and how design contributes to business growth.
Accountabilities:
- Lead and evolve the end-to-end product design function, including UX/UI, design systems, and visual language across product and brand.
- Manage and mentor a small team of designers, setting high standards for quality, speed, collaboration, and ownership.
- Act as a player-coach, staying hands-on in key projects while guiding overall design direction and execution.
- Partner closely with product leadership to shape roadmap decisions, product strategy, and experience design priorities.
- Drive UX research and discovery efforts, including user flows, usability testing, and customer insight integration.
- Improve collaboration between product, design, and engineering by strengthening processes from discovery to delivery.
- Lead the adoption of AI-enabled design workflows to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and validation.
- Establish and enforce design QA standards to ensure consistency, usability, and implementation quality.
- Champion a culture of prototyping, testing, and continuous validation to improve product outcomes.
- Ensure design contributes directly to key business metrics such as adoption, retention, and customer value.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in product design, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
- Strong experience in fast-paced startup or growth-stage environments.
- Proven track record designing and shipping B2B SaaS or complex, workflow-driven products.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating both product design and brand/marketing design capabilities.
- Deep expertise in UX research, usability testing, and translating insights into product improvements.
- Experience building and scaling design systems in growing organizations.
- Strong systems thinking, interaction design skills, and product sense.
- Experience partnering closely with product, engineering, and executive stakeholders.
- Proficiency in modern design tools such as Figma and comfort with AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and defend design decisions with clarity.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity while driving structure and clarity in evolving environments.
- A strong design taste level demonstrated through portfolio quality and craft standards.
Benefits:
- High-impact leadership role shaping product experience, design culture, and company standards.
- Fully remote work setup with collaboration across distributed teams in multiple regions.
- Opportunity to lead and scale a growing design function in a high-growth environment.
- Strong autonomy to define design systems, processes, and product experience direction.
- Direct exposure to executive leadership and strategic product decision-making.
- Work on meaningful products that directly support small business growth and success.
- Environment that encourages AI-enabled workflows and modern design practices.
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