Head of Product Design — AI Video Platform

Mirage; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vis

401K with employer match

Commuter Benefits

Catered lunch multiple days per week

Dinner stipend every night if you're }

Grubhub subscription

Health & Wellness Perks

Multiple team offsites per year

Generous PTO policy

Job summary

Mirage is seeking its first experienced design leader to guide the Product Design team at Mirage. You will set the vision, manage and grow designers, and partner with executives, Product, and Engineering to shape strategy and turn ambitious ideas into real products.

As a small, collaborative team, you’ll own not only the look and feel but how our products actually work, crafting new interaction paradigms for AI-native video creation and building the systems and culture needed for outstanding

Qualifications

• A track record of building, managing, and developing high-performing product design teams.
• Significant experience designing and shipping complex consumer products, ideally across mobile and desktop.
• Strong product judgment and exceptional design taste, with the ability to raise the bar from early product thinking through polished execution.
• Able to move fluidly between high-level strategy, people leadership, and detailed product critique.
• Comfortable creating clarity in ambiguous environments and making thoughtful decisions with imperfect information.
• A clear communicator who can inspire teams, explain design rationale, and align people around a shared direction.
• A portfolio that demonstrates strong systems thinking, high-quality craft, and meaningful impact on shipped products.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision, strategy, and quality bar for Product Design across Mirage, ensuring the user experience remains cohesive as the product and company grow.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of product designers, providing clear direction, thoughtful feedback, and meaningful opportunities for growth.
• Build a world-class design team, shaping the structure, capabilities, and culture of the function over time.
• Partner closely with the executive, Product, and Engineering teams to shape product vision, strategy, and long-term roadmap.
• Guide the design of complex, high-impact product initiatives from early exploration through launch, helping teams turn ambiguous problems into clear and compelling experiences.
• Establish a strong culture of critique, craft, and user-centered decision-making while creating the processes that help the team move quickly without sacrificing quality.
• Translate emerging AI capabilities into intuitive interaction models and product experiences across text, image, audio, motion, and video.

Skills

Leadership & mentorship

Product design leadership

Design systems

AI-native product design

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Mirage is seeking its first experienced design leader to guide the Product Design team at Mirage. You will set the vision, manage and grow designers, and partner with executives, Product, and Engineering to shape strategy and turn ambitious ideas into real products.

As a small, collaborative team, you’ll own not only the look and feel but how our products actually work, crafting new interaction paradigms for AI-native video creation and building the systems and culture needed for outstanding