Lead Product Designer

About the Role

This is a high-ownership design leadership role at a fast-growing AI-powered business communication SaaS company serving SMEs across the DACH region and beyond. You will shape product design, brand, and team direction while staying hands-on, working closely with founders and engineering to ship at high velocity with direct customer access.

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end product design, branding, and design-team leadership, splitting your time roughly equally between hands-on craft and team direction.
• Lead design across three product areas in continuous collaboration with product and engineering stakeholders.
• Conduct regular customer interviews with SME customers such as tradespeople, medical practices, and professional service firms to build deep user understanding.
• Define and maintain the design standard across product, web, and brand.
• Build and scale design systems to ensure consistent execution across multiple product areas.
• Contribute to fast feedback loops with founders and engineers to enable daily releases.
• Leverage modern AI tools to accelerate and enhance the design process.

What We're Looking For

• At least five years of end-to-end product design experience with ownership across multiple product areas.
• Proven expertise in Figma, prototyping, and user research including customer interviews.
• Experience leading or mentoring a design team, or a demonstrated readiness to step into that responsibility while remaining hands-on.
• Solid background in building and scaling design systems across a multi-product environment.
• Experience owning brand and website design alongside core product design.
• Analytics-driven mindset: you measure design decisions and iterate based on data.
• Familiarity with modern AI tools such as Cursor, v0, or Claude to accelerate design workflows.
• Native-level German (essential for the DACH market) and good professional English for an international team.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range

80,000 to 150,000 EUR annually. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Location

On-site in Vienna, Austria.