# Head of Design

**Company:** [Canary Technologies](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/canary-technologies)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $250k – $290k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Figma, Design Systems, Accessibility, Ux Research, Analytics Tools, Tokens, Design Tokens, Prototyping, Information Architecture, Design Principles
**Posted:** 2026-04-10

> Leads design for Canary's hospitality platform, owning the design system, information hierarchy, and interaction principles for human and AI agent users. Requires 8+ years in product design, 3+ years leading teams, and expertise in scalable B2B SaaS design systems.

## Job Description

## 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

## Qualifications

- **8+ years in Product Design** with **3+ years leading teams** directly. Experience operating in B2B or B2B2C SaaS preferred.
- Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end systems thinking, exceptional product craft, and shipped work at scale across web and mobile is essential.
- Proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain diverse design talent. Strength in feedback, coaching, and org-building.
- Strong partner to Product and Engineering. Comfortable in ambiguity, rapid iteration, and enterprise constraints.
- Inspired by companies like Rippling, Linear, or Stripe where systematic design creates product clarity
- Fluency in **design systems**, **accessibility**, **UX research methods**, and experimentation. Familiarity with **analytics tools**.
- 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)

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