Design Lead

Topsort; Somerville (MA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading adtech company is seeking a Design Lead to shape both product and brand design. This role involves guiding user experiences, maintaining design systems, and collaborating across teams for a cohesive visual identity. The ideal candidate is a proactive designer with 6+ years of experience who thrives in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

401K Matching

Comprehensive Health Benefits

Flexible PTO Schedule

Working Equipment of Choice

Meditation App

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience across product and visual design.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating design capabilities.
• Experience in SaaS or B2B environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and evolve the design function at Topsort.
• Create user experiences for platforms, APIs, and tools.
• Mentor and support a small design team.

Skills

Product Design

Brand Design

Interaction Design

Visual Hierarchy

Cross-functional Communication

Feedback

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Design or related field

Tools

Figma

Job description

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

We're quickly growing and super excited for you to join us!

About Topsort

Do you enjoy a fast-paced environment? Do you like seeing your work create real-time impact, being part of a rocket ship from the very beginning? Let’s do the unimaginable - let’s make ads clean and cool again, with AI and modern technology.

What it’s like to work at Topsort

Our team is all about straightforward communication, embracing feedback without taking it personally, and fostering a super collaborative environment. It’s a sports team that’s hyper focused on winning, collaborative internally, and competitive externally - never the other way around. We thrive on working in the open, lifting each other up, and getting things done with a sense of urgency. We're the kind of team that loves making bold choices, sharing extraordinary opinions, and maintaining a 100 mph pace. No endless meetings here – if it can be done today, we're all about getting it done today.

What is this role like？

We’re looking for a creative, hands-on, and cross-functional Design Lead to own and elevate design at Topsort across both product and brand. This role is perfect for someone who can zoom between pixels and systems, detail and direction, and who’s excited to shape the visual identity of a fast-growing adtech company from the ground up.

You’ll set the quality bar, and work directly with product, marketing, and leadership to ensure our user experiences are not only functional, but elegant and cohesive. You’ll guide everything from feature-level UI/UX to brand campaigns and visual storytelling, making sure Topsort looks and feels like the category-defining product we’re building.

This is a high-impact, hands-on role for a designer who’s ready to lead, ship, and scale, and who thrives in early-stage, product-led environments.

You will:

• Lead and evolve Topsort’s design function, spanning both product UX and brand design
• Work hands-on in Figma to create intuitive, delightful user experiences for our platform, APIs, and tools
• Define and maintain a cohesive design system that balances speed, scalability, and craft
• Mentor and support a small team of designers, fostering collaboration and growth
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, marketing, and go-to-market teams to align design decisions with business goals
• Translate complex concepts (auctions, APIs, data flows) into clear, user-friendly interfaces and communications
• Shape and refine Topsort’s visual identity across touchpoints—from the app to the website to event collateral
• Balance speed with precision, making smart trade-offs in a fast-moving, startup environment
• Champion design quality and usability, helping the team think in systems, not just screens

What (we think) you need to be successful - we’re open to not checking all the boxes and be proven wrong by outlier candidates as well!

• 6+ years of experience across product design and brand/visual design, with a strong portfolio that demonstrates both
• Experience designing and shipping complex digital products, ideally in B2B, SaaS, or technical domains
• Comfortable working with and leading a small team, including mentoring, direction-setting, and feedback
• Fluent in tools like Figma and comfortable owning systems, prototypes, and design documentation
• Strong understanding of interaction design, layout, and visual hierarchy
• Able to think and speak cross-functionally, working with engineers, marketers, and execs alike
• A builder’s mindset: you seek feedback, move quickly, and focus on delivering impact
• A passion for clarity, simplicity, and polish in every design decision
• Excitement about owning a zero-to-one design journey and influencing company-wide aesthetics and UX

Why it’s awesome to work at Topsort

• Direct Feedback and Rapid Growth: We work hard, set aggressive goals and execute flawlessly to accomplish them. We give candid feedback, push each other to set higher goals and produce more impact by always thinking “how do we do this faster and better”
• Be part of an elite and collaborative sports team: We believe startup scaleup is just like a team sport. It's been written in our motto since day 1 that we are collaborative internally, competitive externally, and never the other round around. You are ultimately surrounded by just different people that are all here to help you get the job done and shine as a team.
• Company Offsite and Industry Exposure: Once a year Topsorters get together as a whole and also meet customers and really spend time to get feedback
• 401K Matching and Comprehensive benefits: We provide a generous and comprehensive set of health benefits, including vision, dental, and a 3% 401K matching as soon as you join!
• Working Equipment and Hubs: our team is global and also centered around hubs, that means you’re welcome to create a hybrid work schedule, and encouraged to travel to other hubs to collaborate. We provide working devices of your choice and surprise swags for special events.
• Flexible PTO schedule with floating holidays - we encourage Topsorters to take time off and recharge, and respect different cultural norms so offer floating holidays to accommodate the celebrations you’d like.
• Meditation App, Birthday and Anniversary Celebrations - we like little surprises and remember the key moments to celebrate with you!

Do you sound like the right fit? Let's dive right in!

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