Senior Product Design Lead - AI-Driven Mobile (12m)

Sonder; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Free Sonder app access 24/7 support

Parental leave with return-to-work政策

AI tools access (Claude, Gemini)

Study leave

Wellbeing fund

Salary packaging

Dog-friendly office

Volunteer leave

Job summary

Sonder is seeking a Lead Product Designer for a 12-month fixed-term contract in Sydney. You will lead design across the member experience, taking work from discovery to shipped product, primarily on mobile, with collaboration across Product and Engineering.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in senior design roles, a strong portfolio with mobile craft, design systems experience, and comfort presenting to leadership. AI integration experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of senior or staff-level product design experience.
• A strong portfolio showing full-stack product design, from discovery through to shipped product, with particularly strong mobile interaction craft and visual polish.
• Design system experience — comfortable extending what already exists with good judgement, and helping build out new parts from the ground up.
• Genuine curiosity about AI tools and how they can sharpen your design process.
• Excellent design communication — confident presenting your thinking to a range of audiences, from engineering partners through to leadership.
• Comfortable moving between near-term, ship-ready work and longer-range vision work as priorities shift.
• Experience as a design lead in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Experience building a design system from the ground up, not just extending one.
• Experience embedding AI tools directly into your day-to-day design process.
• Experience designing in regulated, high-trust or health and safety-adjacent spaces, working with clinical, safety or trust and safety stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead design across Sonder's member experience from discovery through to shipped, polished product.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering on day-to-day execution, with a strong mobile focus but range across devices and platforms.
• Present and communicate design decisions effectively to stakeholders including leadership and engineering partners.

Job description

Sonder is seeking a Lead Product Designer for a 12-month fixed-term contract in Sydney. You will lead design across the member experience, taking work from discovery to shipped product, primarily on mobile, with collaboration across Product and Engineering.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in senior design roles, a strong portfolio with mobile craft, design systems experience, and comfort presenting to leadership. AI integration experience is a plus.