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Head of Design
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Head of Design
Intertek
Role Description The Head of Design is a visionary, execution-oriented leader who owns the entire design function at People Assurance. This is not a maintenance role; it’s a transformation mandate. You will define and drive the design strategy across product, influence brand, and support all external-facing touchpoints, supporting a new standard for how People Assurance looks, feels, and connects with the people who use and encounter our products. The ideal leader is hungry, change-oriented, and energized by building from the ground up. You’ve also done this before. You’ve taken a legacy product or brand and transformed it into something dramatically better, and you’re ready to do it again with the full backing of executive leadership. Key Responsibilities - Design Leadership & Vision - Shape and implement a cohesive design philosophy that elevates workflow efficiency, product functionality, and overall usability across the software portfolio. - Ensure core design principles and usability best practices are applied consistently across all product experiences. - Lead direct research with customers and prospects to understand needs, evaluate industry trends, and translate insights into clear recommendations. - Partner with Product Management to prioritize and drive these improvements into the product. - Serve as a trusted design advisor to executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Engineering, and Marketing. - Support visual examples and executive presentations that articulate design transformation and ‘how’ we get there. - Define clear design standards and implement scalable design systems across all PA products and services. - Present design strategy, direction, and progress to leadership and key stakeholders on a regular cadence. - Establish a scalable design system and governance model that enables Product, Marketing, and other functions to leverage shared visual standards while maintaining clear ownership of their respective domains. - Product Design (UI/UX) - Own end-to-end product design experience, from discovery and wireframes to polished, production-ready UI. - Lead the transition from our legacy interface to a modern, intuitive, and scalable design system – elevating quality and accelerating delivery. - Lead direct research with customers and prospects to understand needs, evaluate industry trends, and translate insights into clear recommendations. - Define and maintain the design system and component library in close partnership with Engineering. - Ensure accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design principles are embedded in all product work. - Brand & External Presence - Partner with Marketing to evolve and maintain shared visual standards that create consistency between product experiences and external brand experiences. - Provide design guidance and consultation to ensure consistency across product and external experiences. - Support brand evolution in partnership with Marketing. - Elevate our product brand to a position that signals trust, modernity, and market leadership. - Partner with Marketing to establish and evolve shared visual standards while maintaining clear ownership boundaries between product design and marketing execution. - Change Management & Modernization - Lead the cultural and operational shift to design-led thinking across the organization. - Define and drive the roadmap for evolving our visual and UX standards from legacy to modern, with clear milestones and measurable outcomes. - Champion design as a competitive advantage, building internal advocacy and organizational fluency around design value. Qualifications - 6-8+ years of design experience in a SaaS environment, with a minimum of 2 years in a senior or lead design role. - Must have people management experience – team will flex from 6-10 designers. - Demonstrated track record of modernizing a product UI — you have led a successful transition from legacy to modern design and can speak to the process and outcomes. - Full-spectrum design capability: you move fluidly between product/UX work and brand/visual identity without a drop in quality. - Experience building or scaling a design team, including hiring, mentoring, and developing talent. - Exceptional visual design skills and an uncompromising eye for detail. Your portfolio showcases this skillset. - Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate and sell a design vision to senior leadership. - Comfortable operating in ambiguity; you drive clarity and don’t wait to be directed. Preferred - Experience in HR tech, workforce management, compliance, or adjacent SaaS verticals. - Proficiency in Figma and experience building design systems at scale. - Background in high-growth or scale-up environments where pace and adaptability are essential. - Familiarity with front-end development workflows and collaborating closely with engineering teams. Benefits - Competitive compensation packages. - Medical, dental, and vision insurance. - Life and disability insurance. - 401(k) with company match. - Generous vacation/sick time (PTO). - Tuition reimbursement. - And more.
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