Head of Design
At a glance
Director-level Product & Design Leadership role at Bjak. Remote, United States · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $165,000–$262,450 across the United States.
Bjak has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
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What you'll do
- Set the creative direction and quality standard for design across the group’s products
- Shape or assess key user journeys, product ideas and interfaces yourself
- Make financial and AI workflows easier for consumers to use
- Define expectations for interaction, visual design and design systems, then review released products for usability issues
- Work with product and engineering from early ideas to launch, and hire and evaluate senior design talent
What you bring
- A portfolio of launched consumer technology products with meaningful usage, submitted with your application
- Strong product and interaction design skills, backed by close work with product and engineering on shipped products
- The ability to prototype interactions, communicate them clearly and improve design work hands-on
- Sharp visual judgement and close attention to interface details
Who this fits
This role suits a hands-on design leader who wants to shape product work directly rather than focus mainly on managing people. It is a remote role based in the United States.
From the employer
About ActAI
There are over 5 billion users using basic applications today such email, notes, tasks, calendar and they're not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications for anyone in the world, who are not used to complex prompting. We aim to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows, with minimal to no prompting.
Our first application is an agent-first mobile communication app. We believe building applications that users use daily for communication, coordination and collaboration needs will help integrate AI into their lives. The net effect is to eliminate misinformation, achieve low coordination costs, enable high quality tasks and collaboration at scale with minimal or little prompting.
About the Role
The Head of Design will own product design quality across the group's consumer products and brands. This is a hands-on design leadership role with direct involvement in our most important products and user experiences.
What you will be doing
Set the design direction and quality bar across group products.
Work directly on or review critical user journeys, product concepts and interfaces.
Turn complex financial and AI workflows into simple consumer experiences.
Set standards across product design, interaction, visual design and design systems.
Review shipped products and identify specific usability and design problems.
Work with product and engineering from early concepts through production.
Recruit and assess senior product, UI and brand designers.
What you will need
Strong portfolio of shipped consumer technology products with meaningful usage.
Deep product and interaction design capability, not primarily people management.
Strong visual judgement and attention to interface details.
Ability to prototype and communicate product interactions directly.
Experience working closely with product and engineering on shipped products.
Hands-on design style - able to create, critique and materially improve design work directly.
Portfolio Submission (Mandatory)
Applicants are required to submit a portfolio as part of their application. The portfolio should showcase relevant design work, projects, and achievements that demonstrate your experience, creative capabilities, and suitability for the Chief Design Officer role.
Please provide a link to your portfolio in the application form. Portfolio submission is mandatory for this role.
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