VP of Product Design - EMEA - Remote

Role overview

Lead product design for an AI-driven creative platform, bringing a distributed design function under a shared direction and quality standard. The role combines team leadership with hands-on work to unify the product experience, strengthen the design system, and shape how people direct and review AI agents.

Responsibilities - Bring product designers into a coherent team while keeping them embedded in delivery squads; establish design review, shared rituals, and clear ownership of craft and sign-off. - Audit and complete the existing design system, then drive its adoption through coded design tokens, reusable components, and shipped product screens. - Work with product and engineering to deliver features consistently while improving design speed, turnaround expectations, and planning. - Define interaction patterns for briefing, running, supervising, reviewing, and approving agent work, serving both enterprise governance needs and practitioner workflows. - Establish discovery and research practices, review outcomes after launch, and use customer evidence to guide design decisions. - Build team structure, levels, career paths, and hiring plans; develop design engineering and accessibility capabilities.

Requirements - Experience leading product design teams and setting a consistent bar for UX and visual craft. - Ability to develop and implement design systems across a live product, including collaboration with engineers on reusable components and tokens. - Experience partnering closely with product and engineering teams to deliver work and resolve competing priorities. - Strong judgment in designing complex workflows, including products that combine automation with human oversight and approval. - Ability to build team culture, coach designers, and create effective critique and review practices. - Familiarity with customer research, accessibility, and using evidence to assess product decisions.

Benefits and work setup - Remote work from within the employee’s home country, with flexible working hours. - Flexible time off, described as 25 days plus public holidays. - Health cover, a monthly wellness, fitness, and learning stipend, and enhanced parental leave. - UK-based employees can access an office in London.