[Remote] Lead Product Designer [AQ-23166]

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aquent is recruiting for an unnamed leading digital gift card platform. The Lead Product Designer will set the end-to-end design vision across product, brand, and design systems, while shipping hands-on work and managing the design team. The role partners with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Growth to improve customer experience and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own the design vision and quality bar across the core journeys: discover → purchase → send → redeem → repeat
• Design and ship end-to-end: research, flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and polished handoff
• Elevate the brand: own a cohesive visual identity across the site, lifecycle email, landing pages, and campaigns
• Build and maintain the design system in Figma, hand-in-hand with Engineering
• Partner with Product and Engineering day-to-day – scoping, iterating, QA, and shipping consistently excellent experiences
• Partner with Marketing and Growth on campaigns, landing pages, lifecycle email, and acquisition creative – translating brand and performance goals into design that sells and makes customers happy
• Keep the experience cohesive across product and marketing surfaces, so the brand feels like one unified experience from first ad to redemption
• Use data and experimentation across both product and marketing – turning customer insight and A/B results into design decisions that lift conversion and retention
• Make a new type of gift card feel clear, trustworthy, and delightful
• Directly manage, mentor, and build the design team, holding hiring/firing authority and establishing team cohesiveness

Skills

• 6-9 years of product/UX design experience, with a portfolio of shipped consumer or e-commerce products
• E-commerce experience is a must-have
• With strong preference for combined e-commerce and fintech/payments experience
• Strong range across product design, visual/brand design, and design systems – excellent at one, credible across the rest
• Expert in Figma, including building and maintaining component libraries
• A great eye for design and strong product taste – you have a strong attention to detail in UX, copy, flows, and finishing touches
• Comfort working with data and experimentation; you use analytics and A/B tests to inform and validate design
• Front-end literacy: you understand HTML/CSS, design within real constraints, and collaborate tightly with engineers
• Demonstrated people management skills with direct leadership experience managing product designers
• Combined e-commerce and fintech/payments experience

Benefits

• Performance bonus potential
• Full benefits
• Remote, US-based work arrangement

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