Head of Product Design

tilthq; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home-office reimbursement

Generous equity

Flexible health plans with subsidies

Global onsite gathering

Job summary

tilthq is seeking a Head of Product Design to lead a team of six product designers and one researcher, embedded across multiple pods. You will own design vision, craft standards, and drive user impact across consumer-facing mobile money products, with a mandate to push design upstream into strategy and problem definition.

The role focuses on building a scalable design function, maturing the research practice, and expanding the design system to support rapid growth across global products.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing and shipping consumer-facing mobile products
• 5+ years managing designers and mentoring growth
• Experience shaping product and business strategy at leadership level
• Portfolio showing craft, decision rationale and measurable outcomes
• Fluency in Figma and thinking about AI in design workflow
• Ability to present design arguments to executives without jargon

Responsibilities

• Set vision, standards, and strategy for product design across user-facing surfaces
• Lead, mentor, and grow the design team including hiring and career development
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering and cross-functional leaders to shape roadmaps and operating rhythms
• Build and mature the research function, turning early-stage research into durable capability
• Scale the design system across multiple products
• Advocate for users with evidence-based reasoning across functions
• Identify and operationalize AI and automation to improve design and delivery

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication

Tools

Figma

Job description

Role overview

A Head of Product Design role leading a team of six product designers and one researcher embedded across multiple product pods. The position owns design vision, craft standards, and user impact across consumer-facing mobile money products, with a mandate to push design upstream into strategy and problem definition.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision, standards, and strategy for product design across all user-facing surfaces
• Manage, mentor, and grow the design team, including hiring and career development
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional leaders to shape roadmaps and operating rhythms
• Build out the research practice, turning early-stage research into a durable team capability
• Steward and scale the design system across a multi-product surface
• Champion the user through evidence-based advocacy across credit, growth, engineering, and other functions
• Identify and operationalize AI and automation that genuinely improve design and delivery work

Requirements

• 8+ years designing and shipping consumer-facing mobile products, ideally in fintech or similarly complex domains
• 5+ years managing designers, with a track record of developing people and raising the craft bar
• Experience operating at the leadership table shaping product and business strategy
• Portfolio demonstrating craft quality, decision rationale, and measurable outcomes
• Fluency in Figma, with informed views on where AI fits into a design workflow
• Ability to make clear design arguments to executive audiences without relying on jargon

Nice to have

• Experience building or maturing a research function

Benefits and work setup

• Virtual-first organization collaborating across many countries and time zones, with a home-office reimbursement to start
• Competitive compensation with generous equity
• Flexible health plans at multiple premium levels and substantial global-standard subsidies
• Direct exposure to leadership and a twice-yearly paid global onsite gathering
• Growth opportunities tied to impact rather than rigid promotion timelines