Lead Product Designer

Socket.dev; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

HighLevel is seeking a Lead Product Designer to elevate product experiences with advanced craft, systems thinking and influence across pillars. You will partner with product and engineering leaders, mentor designers and shape design direction, standards and culture across multiple pillars.

The role requires 7+ years in complex digital product design, including SaaS/B2B environments, and a portfolio that demonstrates high craft and impact.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product design experience with leadership responsibilities.
• Experience designing for SaaS, B2B, or complex platforms.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating systems thinking and impact.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams with product, engineering and data partners.
• Expertise in design systems, accessibility, and scalable patterns.
• Experience collaborating with ML/AI teams preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead design strategy and execution for one or more product pillars from discovery through delivery.
• Translate customer needs and business goals into clear experience direction and roadmaps.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to define vision and priorities.
• Influence leadership decisions through data, storytelling and design rationale.
• Mentor designers, raise design quality, and socialize shared patterns.
• Promote accessibility and ethical design across teams.

Skills

SaaS experience

B2B product design

Design systems

Leadership / mentoring

AI-driven interfaces

Portfolio excellence

Job description

About us

HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that gives agencies, entrepreneurs and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and scale. Today, HighLevel supports SMBs across 150+ countries, fueling community-driven growth rooted in real customer outcomes. To date, businesses operating on HighLevel have generated over $7 billion in ecosystem value, demonstrating the impact of shared infrastructure at scale. By centralizing conversations, automation and intelligence into one system, we help businesses move faster, reduce complexity and execute efficiently. Behind the platform, HighLevel powers more than 4 billion API hits and 2.5 billion message events daily. With 250 terabytes of distributed data, 250+ microservices and over 1 million domain names supported, our architecture is built for performance, resilience and long-term scalability.

Our People

With over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries, HighLevel operates as a global, remote-first organization built for speed and ownership. We value initiative, clarity and execution, creating space for ambitious people to build systems that support millions of businesses worldwide. Here, innovation thrives, ideas are celebrated and people come first, no matter where they call home.

Our Impact

Every month, HighLevel enables more than 1.5 billion messages, 200 million leads and 20 million conversations for the more than 1 million businesses we support. Behind those numbers are real people building independence, expanding opportunity and creating measurable impact. We’re proud to be a part of that.

Learn more about us on ourYouTube Channel orBlog Posts

About the Role

We are seeking a Lead Product Designer who can elevate HighLevel's product experiences through exceptional craft, product vision, systems thinking and influence. You have spent 7+ years designing complex digital products, ideally including SaaS, B2B, platform, workflow-heavy or similarly sophisticated product experiences, and are ready to shape product direction, design standards and team culture across one or more product pillars. As a lead individual contributor, you will partner deeply with product and engineering leaders, mentor other designers and help teams define and improve strategically important product experiences across the HighLevel platform. You will connect customer needs, business goals, technical constraints and long-term product strategy to clear, useful and highly polished product design. We expect candidates at this level to demonstrate an extraordinarily high bar for design craft and visual sophistication, and to raise that bar for the teams around them. You should care deeply about hierarchy, layout, typography, grids, spacing, interaction quality, usability, accessibility and the standards that make product experiences feel refined, trustworthy and coherent at scale. We want candidates who can ship truly world-class product design. Experience using AI-powered tools for exploration, prototyping, critique, synthesis or workflow acceleration is mandatory. Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.

What You Can Expect

• Autonomy to shape design direction across one or more strategically important product pillars.
• Meaningful influence with product, engineering and senior leadership on product quality, customer outcomes and roadmap direction.
• The opportunity to raise the design bar across multiple teams through critique, standards, mentorship and systems thinking.
• Partnership with ambitious product, engineering, data and design peers who value clarity, speed, craft and customer outcomes.
• A craft-forward design culture where lead designers help strengthen design practice, improve team rituals and grow other designers.
• A 100% remote environment where distributed collaboration is normal.
• Employees in all geographies are expected to be flexible and thoughtful about working hours so US- and India-based colleagues can collaborate effectively.

What We Are Looking For

• 7+ years of relevant product design experience, with 2+ years in a leadership, mentorship or design direction capacity; experience in SaaS, B2B, platform, workflow-heavy or other complex digital product environments is highly valuable.
• An exceptionally strong portfolio that demonstrates systematic thinking, customer empathy, exceptional craft, measurable product impact and leadership beyond individual execution.
• Proven experience leading data-informed product design across the full lifecycle, including research, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, content strategy and usability testing.
• Exceptional visual and interaction design craft, with deep care for hierarchy, layout, typography, grids, spacing, motion, usability, accessibility and product quality.
• Experience designing for AI-driven or intelligent interfaces, including collaboration with machine learning, data, automation or platform teams.
• Deep fluency in design systems, accessibility standards, reusable patterns and scalable product experience decisions.
• Experience influencing design direction for high-impact product areas, systems, platforms or pillars, not only individual features or flows.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills and the ability to work fluently with product managers, engineers, data partners, customer-facing teams, senior stakeholders and other designers.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to simplify complex ideas, lead critiques and workshops and persuade through rationale, evidence and craft.
• Passion for improving team operations, design standards, processes, tools, documentation and better ways for teams to work.

In This Role

• Lead design strategy and execution for one or more product pillars from discovery through delivery.
• Translate customer needs, business goals, product strategy and technical constraints into clear experience direction and design roadmaps.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to define product vision, prioritize opportunities and align teams around high-quality outcomes.
• Influence leadership decisions through customer empathy, data synthesis, product judgment, storytelling and strong design rationale.
• Drive design quality reviews and set standards for usability, accessibility, interaction quality, visual consistency and design system alignment.
• Raise the quality of multiple teams by mentoring designers, improving critique, strengthening shared patterns and making standards easier to adopt.
• Define and socialize metrics for design quality and impact, such as usability signals, accessibility compliance, task success, adoption, retention or customer satisfaction.
• Lead complex discovery and design efforts through ambiguity by synthesizing inputs, framing decisions and helping teams move with clarity.

How You Work

• You raise the bar for craft, visual sophistication and product quality across the teams around you.
• You move comfortably between product strategy, customer insight, systems thinking and hands-on design execution.
• You balance speed, detail, scalability and quality without losing sight of the customer.
• You build trust through warmth, candor, accountability and genuine respect for your teammates as people.
• You enjoy leading collaboration across time zones and cultural contexts, including with US- and India-based teammates.
• You communicate in ways that help distributed teams work with clarity, care, trust and momentum.
• You advocate for accessibility, inclusion and ethical design.