Director, AI-Driven Venture Design

PERSOL SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

PERSOL Singapore Pte Ltd is seeking an Innovation and Venture Designer to lead customer-centric digital and service experiences, turning bold ideas into scalable ventures. This director-level role reports to the Head of Innovation and Design and works with venture CEOs, product leaders, and engineers to shape high-impact decisions.

In a fast-moving fintech environment, the role blends UX, service design, and AI-enabled prototyping to accelerate validation and achieve strong product-market fit.

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience across facilitation, product design, product commercialisation, innovation design, UX/UI and/or consulting
• Experience working in AI augmented or automation rich product environments, leveraging AI tools or agents to accelerate discovery and delivery
• Ability to define intent, constraints, and evaluation criteria for AI generated outputs across design and innovation workflows
• Strong systems thinking: comfortable designing workflows, guardrails, and governance rather than only artefacts
• Proven track record designing complex, customer-facing digital products at scale
• Strong expertise in UX research, interaction design,visual design, and prototyping (Claude Code/Cursor in addition to Figma)
• Experience operating at Director-level influence without formal people management
• Strong understanding of agile product development and cross-functional delivery models
• Ability to clearly articulate design decisions to senior, non-design stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Support the shaping of bold, differentiated venture concepts grounded in emerging trends across AI, fintech, and digital business models.
• Apply strong commercial acumen and customer insight to focus efforts on high-potential opportunity spaces and translate them into compelling venture hypotheses.
• Work closely with venture leads, technologists,investors, and senior stakeholders to develop and refine co- created early-stage venture ideas.
• Leverage AI augmentation and modern design tools to accelerate ideation, concept development, and early prototyping.
• Turn bold venture ideas into tangible prototypes that can be tested with real users and evaluated for seed investment by the Investment Committee.
• Run fast, hands-on validation cycles to test assumptions, gather customer insight, and build robust evidence for or against investment decisions.
• Rapidly design, prototype, and iterate using modern tools including Figma and AI tools such as Claude.
• Translate complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives and artifacts that are simple, decision-ready, and investment-grade.
• Apply strong UX, service design, and prototyping craft to move from ambiguity to clarity at speed, shaping intuitive and high-impact user experiences.
• Support ventures post-seed by refining early-stage product, user journeys, and experience design.
• Create prototypes and product concepts that bridge strategy, technology, and customer experience.
• Embed AI augmentation into product design to enhance user value, differentiation, and scalability.
• Ensure alignment between customer needs, business viability, and technical feasibility across early-stage product development.
• Be comfortable operating in zero-to-one environments,balancing creativity, speed, and rigour.
• Bring a solid understanding of fintech ecosystems and digital business models, with sound commercial judgment.
• Thrive in a fast-moving, experimental environment where building, testing, and learning quickly matters most.

Skills

UX/UI Design

Innovation

Business Acumen

Strategic Thinking

Influence

Tools

Figma

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

PERSOL Singapore Pte Ltd is seeking an Innovation and Venture Designer to lead customer-centric digital and service experiences, turning bold ideas into scalable ventures. This director-level role reports to the Head of Innovation and Design and works with venture CEOs, product leaders, and engineers to shape high-impact decisions.

In a fast-moving fintech environment, the role blends UX, service design, and AI-enabled prototyping to accelerate validation and achieve strong product-market fit.