Head of Design
Own product design as a function at a fintech startup building private markets software. Hands-on leadership role building and leading the design team while directly designing critical product surfaces.
Head of Design
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.
250k – 290kNew York, NYProduct DesignHybrid8+ YOE
About the role
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)
Skills
FigmaDesign SystemsAccessibilityUx ResearchAnalytics ToolsTokensDesign TokensPrototypingInformation ArchitectureDesign Principles
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