Lead Product Designer

ABOUT THE ROLE This is a hands-on lead design role at a fast-growing AI communication platform serving SMEs across Europe. You will own product design, branding, and design-team leadership end to end, working directly alongside founders and engineering to ship daily and set the visual and product design standard across three core product areas. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own product design, branding, and design-team direction across the full product portfolio. - Drive hands-on product design work including Figma files, prototypes, and regular customer interviews (roughly 50% of your time). - Lead and coordinate the design team covering website, branding, and product design (roughly 50% of your time). - Take ownership of three product areas in close collaboration with product and engineering counterparts. - Build deep customer understanding through ongoing conversations with target users such as tradespeople, medical practices, and professional service firms. - Build, scale, and maintain design systems for consistent delivery across multiple product areas. - Set and uphold the design standard across product, web, and brand in a high-tempo shipping environment. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least five years of end-to-end product design experience with clear ownership across multiple product areas. - Proficiency in Figma, prototyping, and structured user research and interviews. - Experience building and scaling design systems in a B2B SaaS or similar environment. - Design-team leadership experience, or a strong and demonstrated readiness to step into team responsibility while staying hands-on as an individual contributor. - Branding and website design ownership alongside product design, with an analytics-driven approach to design decisions. - Comfort using modern AI tools such as Cursor, v0, or Claude to accelerate and improve design workflows. - Native-level German for working with DACH-market customers, plus solid professional English for an international team. - A product and data mindset: you measure the impact of design decisions and iterate accordingly. 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.