Head of Design

Remote; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

A global remote work solutions provider is seeking a Head of Design to lead their design department. Responsibilities include providing creative vision, mentoring a talented team, and ensuring high-quality design outputs. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in leading design teams, a strong portfolio, and is fluent in English. This role is fully remote with competitive compensation ranging from $90,000 to $200,000.

Benefits

Competitive benefits

Fair equity pay

Qualifications

• Extensive track record of leading design teams in a tech environment.
• Impressive portfolio showcasing branding and design expertise.
• Strong knowledge of product design and creative processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for the Design department.
• Inspire and mentor a team of design professionals.
• Champion user-centered design practices across the business.

Skills

Leadership

UX/UI Design

Brand Development

Collaboration

Fluency in English

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Overview

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you: our design team is on a mission to make design a differentiator for Remote. Design is at the forefront of everything we do and the Head of Design will provide and take ownership of the creative vision for the Remote brand and user experience, establish design processes, manage projects, and lead the Design department to deliver high-quality work with measurable impact.

Role

Head of Design

What you bring

• Extensive track record of experience in leading and overseeing design teams, including senior staff and senior design leaders, ideally at a tech company for branding and enterprise application design.
• Experience leading initiatives from interpreting design briefs, conceptualisation, setting creative direction, establishing goals, and executing projects to a high standard.
• Impressive portfolio showing deep understanding of branding, design aesthetic, and excellent UX/UI; ability to lead a design department in these areas.
• Strong knowledge of product design, typography, website design, visual design across online and traditional media, brand development and the creative process.
• Fluency in product design trends and leading design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and others.
• Excellent leadership, organizational, and communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Kind, empathetic, patient, and committed to diversity and inclusion.
• Fluent English in writing and speaking.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide the creative vision, direction and leadership for the Design department.
• Build, inspire and mentor a team of world-class talent and oversee their creative outputs end-to-end.
• Own and develop creative programs and design concepts to meet Remote's creative vision, branding and business objectives.
• Champion user-centered design, user experience, design-led thinking and design best practices across the business.
• Lead concept development, provide creative input, set a high quality standard, and troubleshoot design issues as necessary.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Product, Marketing) on brand partnerships and creative projects.
• Work on design assets as required.
• Use quantitative data and qualitative feedback to inform design decisions.
• Stay up-to-date with industry developments and tools.

Practical information

• Reporting to: CEO
• Team: Design
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start date: As soon as possible

Compensation and benefits

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy ensures fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations. We pay above in-location rates and use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials. The base salary range for this full-time position is between $90,000 USD to $200,000 USD. Actual pay depends on location, skills, experience, and business needs. The base range may change over time.

Application process

• Interview with recruiter
• Interview with CEO and co-founder
• Wire-frame feedback exercise
• Interview with VP of Product & Design
• Interview with the other co-founder
• Bar Raiser Interview
• (async) Offer + Reference Check

Equal opportunity

Remote is an equal employment opportunity employer. We encourage applicants from all ethnic groups, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, and backgrounds and provide accommodations upon request. We collect demographic data voluntarily for accountability. We embrace AI as a tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity.