Product Design Lead

10 hours, 37 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Product Management
Fuel50

Fuel50

Fuel50 offers an AI-driven talent marketplace that facilitates internal talent mobility and workforce reskilling by matching employees to career opportunities, learning resources, and projects based on their skills and values, while providing HR with v...

Professional Services
51-200
Founded 2011
$36M raised

Description

  • Lead, manage and coach product designers to support their growth and build a high-performing team.
  • Set and communicate the product design vision across skills intelligence, talent mobility and AI-powered experiences.
  • Own design direction by identifying opportunities, forming clear points of view and prototyping concepts.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering from discovery through delivery to balance customer value, design quality, technical constraints and speed.
  • Influence senior stakeholders, challenge assumptions constructively and guide cross-functional product decisions.
  • Design human-centred AI, agent and assistant experiences with trust, explainability, user control and clear handoffs across the Fuel50 platform, Microsoft Teams and Copilot.
  • Build and ship working prototypes or code, and grow the team’s design engineering capability.
  • Evolve the design system, WCAG accessibility standards and design-to-code practices.
  • Shape the design team’s structure, hiring, planning, capabilities and ways of working.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of product design experience in a SaaS or technology environment.
  • At least 2 years of experience leading, managing or coaching designers, with a track record of building healthy, high-performing teams.
  • Strong product design craft across discovery, interaction and visual design, prototyping, research and shipped digital products.
  • Experience designing complex, connected systems and journeys for multiple personas, ideally in enterprise or B2B products.
  • Ability to set a compelling product vision while pragmatically prioritising what can be learned and shipped next.
  • Experience communicating ideas and direction through stories, prototypes and design narratives.
  • Experience influencing senior stakeholders and working closely with Product and Engineering in a cross-functional leadership partnership.
  • Technical fluency, including building working prototypes with HTML, CSS, JavaScript or similar tools and contributing production code through pull requests.
  • Hands-on experience with AI coding and design tools such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor.
  • Working knowledge of accessibility and WCAG, including designing, testing and embedding accessibility in design systems and review processes.
  • Interest in design systems and data-informed decision-making.
  • Portfolio submission and current New Zealand citizenship or work visa required.

Benefits

  • Birthday and Fuel50 anniversary day off.
  • Quarterly ReFuel Day for rest and wellbeing.
  • Remote work and flexible working hours.
  • Progressive parental leave policy.
  • Comprehensive fully subsidised Southern Cross health insurance.
  • Travel costs covered when non-Auckland employees are required on-site.
  • Occasional access to the BHive co-working space in Takapuna for team and planning events.

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