Founding Product Design Lead: AI-Driven Impact

Beacon Holdings; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Software is seeking a Design Lead to turn difficult business problems into products people depend on. You will embed with portfolio companies, work with customers and operators, and partner with designers and engineers from discovery through adoption.

One assignment might modernize mission-critical industrial software; another might transform operations with an AI-powered workflow. You’re not there to deliver a presentation and leave.

Qualifications

• Evidence of taking ambiguous product or operational problems through delivery to sustained use and measurable improvement.
• Product judgment: challenge requests, uncover constraints and prioritize.
• Technical fluency in AI-enabled products, integrations, data and evaluations. Inspect behavior and traces, prototype ideas, and discuss reliability, cost and technical tradeoffs with engineers.
• Earn trust with operators and leaders, communicate clearly, and lead cross-functional work without formal authority.
• Sound judgment about risk, permissions, human review and when not to automate. Production AI workflow experience is valuable.

Responsibilities

• Find the right problem by understanding customer needs and product priorities with portfolio teams.
• Shape the product and the proof with bounded pilot, users, baseline, success criteria and stop conditions.
• Lead delivery with partners; set requirements and priorities; test smallest complete solution and adjust scope as learned.
• Stay through adoption; test with customers, define rollout and training, and improve through live feedback.
• Prove the value by measuring results, recurring use, quality, time and cost.
• Leave the company stronger by handing off to named owners and capturing reusable workflows and lessons.

Job description

Beacon Software is seeking a Design Lead to turn difficult business problems into products people depend on. You will embed with portfolio companies, work with customers and operators, and partner with designers and engineers from discovery through adoption.

One assignment might modernize mission-critical industrial software; another might transform operations with an AI-powered workflow. You’re not there to deliver a presentation and leave.