# Head of Product Design

**Company:** [n8n](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/n8n)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** £125k – £236k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Product Design, Design Systems, Ux Research, Product Analytics, AI, Automation, Design Qa, Performance Management, Career Frameworks, Front-End Development
**Posted:** 2026-08-17

> Leads the product design organization, setting craft standards, shaping product strategy, building research practices, and guiding expansion toward less technical users. The role requires experience managing managers, leading complex or developer-facing products, influencing executives, and applying data, research, and AI-era product judgment.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Own the quality bar
- Set a clear, consistent quality bar for the design team.
- Build review processes and critique rituals that establish a shared language for quality.
- Evolve the design system and QA practices as the team grows.
- Lower the product’s learning curve for new users without losing the power experienced builders value.

### Drive design’s strategic influence
- Shape product strategy and bring design thinking into roadmap conversations.
- Help lead expansion toward a broader, less technical audience.
- Build strong partnerships with Product, Engineering, and leadership.

### Build and grow the team
- Lead a team of approximately 14 designers, including Design Leads, Design Engineering, and UX Research.
- Shape team structure, career frameworks, and progression paths.
- Create a culture of high standards, honest feedback, and clear expectations.
- Own hiring and headcount planning.

### Build research into decision-making
- Establish a pragmatic, continuous UX research practice.
- Incorporate customer insight, product data, and community feedback into product decisions.
- Connect research to activation, adoption, retention, and new-user onboarding.

### Help the team work in new ways
- Champion practical AI adoption across prototyping, research synthesis, design QA, and workflow efficiency.
- Keep the team current with evolving AI product tools, patterns, and expectations.
- Model a thoughtful, adaptive, and curious working style.

## Requirements
- Experience managing managers, coaching senior designers, and building design teams that improve craft and business outcomes.
- Experience leading design for complex or developer-facing products.
- Strong craft judgment and the ability to explain and uphold high-quality standards.
- Experience making design a co-equal partner in product strategy and decision-making.
- Structured problem-solving skills in ambiguous environments.
- Understanding of AI, automation, or adjacent tooling and the ability to create usable, trustworthy product experiences.
- Research literacy and experience integrating research into product development.
- Data-informed decision-making using product analytics, research, and customer evidence.
- Experience with organizational design, career paths, performance management, and difficult performance conversations.

## Nice-to-haves
- Open-source, fair-code, community-led, or builder-driven product experience.
- Front-end or design engineering fluency, especially for design system adoption and implementation quality.
- Experience building remote-first design rituals, critique, QA, and collaboration practices.
- Experience with activation, onboarding, templates, time-to-value, or product-led growth surfaces.
- Exceptional Design Manager experience with readiness for a first Head-level role.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range: 125000–236400.
- Equity ownership.
- Europe: 30 vacation days plus local public holidays.
- US: 20 vacation days and 8 sick days.
- Visa sponsorship is available for Germany; candidates elsewhere need existing right to work.

## Other Information
- The role is remote-first and may be hired across multiple European locations.
- English is the company language.

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