Lead Product Designer — Scale Local Retail with AI

Design Better Podcast; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Faire is seeking a Lead Product Designer to join a tight-knit, collaborative team of designers who shape experiences for thousands of retailers and maker brands. You’ll own end-to-end design for a strategic product pillar, collaborating across research, engineering, product, and customer service to craft flows that empower customers.

You’ll lead with a growth mindset, elevate the design craft, and partner across teams to ensure measurable business and customer impact.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience designing digital products and systems.
• Expertise in interaction design and systems thinking.
• Ability to connect design direction to business outcomes.
• Experience with rapid prototyping and AI-integrated design.
• Portfolio showing visionary product thinking and impact.
• Experience contributing to large-scale design systems.
• Strong collaboration and curiosity to learn from customers.

Responsibilities

• Define the design direction for a strategic product pillar based on user insight and business context.
• Lead end-to-end design from discovery to polished execution and production.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to explore new paradigms.
• Tell stories that connect design vision to business and customer impact.
• Advance the design system with scalable patterns and motion language.
• Prototype new ideas to test assumptions and drive innovation.

Skills

UX design

Visual design

Design systems

Prototyping

Collaboration

Job description

Faire is seeking a Lead Product Designer to join a tight-knit, collaborative team of designers who shape experiences for thousands of retailers and maker brands. You’ll own end-to-end design for a strategic product pillar, collaborating across research, engineering, product, and customer service to craft flows that empower customers.

You’ll lead with a growth mindset, elevate the design craft, and partner across teams to ensure measurable business and customer impact.