Head of Product Design — Design Systems & AI UI Strategy

F-Prime Capital; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Canary Days

Self Improvement Club

Professional Development Chats

Travel Reimbursement

Personal Travel Reimbursement

Job summary

Canary Technologies in New York is hiring a Head of Product Design to own the design system, information hierarchy, and interaction principles that govern Canary's platform for human users and AI agents.

This role focuses on building a design language that AI agents obey, shaping a scalable system across checkin, messaging, upsells, voice, and more while collaborating closely with engineering and product teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Product Design with 3+ years leading teams directly.
• Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end systems thinking and shipped work at scale across web and mobile.
• Proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain diverse design talent.
• Strong partner to Product and Engineering; comfortable in ambiguity, rapid iteration, and enterprise constraints.
• Inspired by Rippling, Linear, or Stripe where systematic design creates product clarity.
• Fluency in design systems, accessibility, UX research methods, and experimentation.
• Excited by the idea that your design system becomes the rulebook for AI agents building and operating UI.
• Meticulous, opinionated, and able to hold the line on standards while moving fast.
• Comfortable being both hands-on (Figma, tokens, specs) and strategic (principles, governance, cross-pod alignment)

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce a unified design system across all Canary product surfaces — components, spacing, typography, color, layout patterns, and page-level templates
• Establish clear information hierarchy standards so every page communicates priority, status, and action with zero ambiguity
• Build design principles rigid enough to be programmatically enforced and flexible enough to serve diverse hospitality workflows
• Create specifications precise enough that AI coding agents can generate UI that meets your bar without human review
• Audit existing surfaces ruthlessly and drive convergence toward a single coherent system
• Partner closely with engineering and product to make the design system the source of truth — not a side artifact
• Think deeply about how AI agents (voice, chat, autonomous) interact with and present Canary's UI, and design for that as a first-class use case

Skills

Product Design

Team Leadership

B2B SaaS

Job description

Canary Technologies in New York is hiring a Head of Product Design to own the design system, information hierarchy, and interaction principles that govern Canary's platform for human users and AI agents.

This role focuses on building a design language that AI agents obey, shaping a scalable system across checkin, messaging, upsells, voice, and more while collaborating closely with engineering and product teams.