Lead Product Designer — Design Systems & UX (Remote)

Confidential; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential is seeking a Lead Product Designer to own the design direction and overall user experience of every consumer-facing product we offer, and to hold everyone who builds them to a clear design standard.

You will be an individual contributor with real authority, defining the standard, building it into our design systems, and working with product and engineering early, and supporting the product development through launch.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product design with ownership of design direction or design systems for consumer products.
• Portfolio showing ownership of a design system and measurable quality improvement.
• Experience with multi-brand or multi-product design systems and component libraries.
• Hands-on fluency with AI-assisted design and prototyping tools; strong design standards.
• Comfort reading front-end code and collaborating with engineers on components.
• Ability to influence without formal authority and maintain high standards with tact.

Responsibilities

• Own the design direction and overall UX across the Consumer portfolio and define quality.
• Set UX principles and standards; keep them current with product changes.
• Be the authoritative voice on design quality; review work pre- and post-release with teams.
• Audit experiences regularly and maintain a backlog of UX and design deficits.
• Own Consumer and Enterprise design systems, including components, patterns, guidelines, accessibility.
• Structure systems for AI-assisted design and development; enable consistent output.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers early; provide clear, actionable feedback.
• Coach PMs and engineers on design principles to uphold quality when not present.
• Prototype to align on direction using AI tools, code, or Figma.

Skills

Design leadership

Design systems

AI-assisted design

Figma prototyping

User research

Accessibility (WCAG)

Cross-brand design

Distributed teams

Tools

Claude Design

Claude Code

Figma

Job description

Confidential is seeking a Lead Product Designer to own the design direction and overall user experience of every consumer-facing product we offer, and to hold everyone who builds them to a clear design standard.

You will be an individual contributor with real authority, defining the standard, building it into our design systems, and working with product and engineering early, and supporting the product development through launch.