Head of Design

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Responsibilities

• ▹Partner closely with founders, product, engineering, and leadership to translate ambiguous problem spaces into clear product design direction
• ▹Build early concepts and future-state prototypes to test ideas quickly and inform strategy
• ▹Create and own overall design concepts for the user experience across web, mobile, agents, wearables and other emerging modalities
• ▹Design and ship high-quality products and improvements, from early concepts to high-fidelity prototypes and visuals
• ▹Personally design and ship work across product UX/UI, prototypes, brand systems, and storytelling
• ▹Work closely with Marketing on implementing style and branding elements into user experiences
• ▹Establish lightweight frameworks, standards, and patterns that enable speed without bureaucracy
• ▹Help define how design scales as companies mature

Requirements

• ▹12+ years of experience in product, UX & front-end design, including leadership roles in high-growth startups or scale-ups
• ▹Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or related field
• ▹Strong understanding of AI fundamentals and their application in product experiences
• ▹Knowledge of front-end development languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• ▹Expert Figma and Figma Make skills: component libraries, auto-layout, variants, prototyping, design tokens
• ▹Deep understanding of responsive, mobile-first design
• ▹Demonstrated success designing across multiple phases of company growth

Soft skills

About the company

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security.