Lead Product Designer
Clera Vienna, Austria · €80K–€150K/yr
Technology, Information and Internet · 2-10 employees
About the role
You will lead product design, branding, and team direction while working directly with founders and engineering to ship daily. The role involves hands-on design work, conducting customer interviews, and maintaining design systems across three core product areas.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have at least five years of end-to-end product design experience and proficiency in Figma and user research. Strong leadership skills and native-level German proficiency are required to support the DACH-market.
Full description
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.
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