Were looking for a Head of Design to lead HoneyBooks growing Product Design team and help define the future of our product experience. As a senior leader, reporting to the CPO, you will shape the vision, strategy, and operational approach for product design across our product, infusing world-class UX craft and cross-functional collaboration. Youll guide a high-performing team of designers and design managers, ensuring our solutions are delightful, intuitive, and empowering to our users.
Beyond leading Product Design, you will also own brand expression and visual identity, and lead the Marketing Design function that brings our brand to life across marketing assets and campaigns-working in close partnership with the Creative team, who owns campaign concepts and creative strategy.
Here are a few of the things you'll do:
Own and drive the end-to-end product design vision across all our user-facing experiences.
Inspire, coach, and manage a multidisciplinary design team, including design leads and ICs, fostering a culture of creativity, critique, and growth.
Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data leadership to shape product strategy, ensuring design thinking is central from discovery to delivery.
Build and scale design systems and tooling to ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency across teams.
Collaborate with our Marketing team, specifically with the Creative team, making sure our brand is reflected in the product and in our marketing assets in an effective and consistent way.
Champion the voice of the user-combining qualitative research, UX best practices, and business context to inform decisions.
Recruit, hire, and onboard top-tier design talent to support our continued growth.
Elevate design as a strategic function, helping articulate how product experiences tie into our business outcomes.
Requirements: 10+ years of experience in product design, including 3+ years managing design leaders.
A proven track record of shipping exceptional, user-centered products in high-growth startups.
Deep understanding of interaction design, visual design, and UX research, alongside a sharp product and business sense.
A thoughtful approach to design leadership: empowering teams and holding a high craft bar.
Experience leading brand expression, visual identity, and marketing design (graphic design for campaigns, landing pages, and marketing assets).
Experience collaborating with executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams in complex, high-growth environments.
A portfolio or body of work that shows how your leadership translated to real product impact.
Experience working in AI-enhanced product environments is a strong plus.
This position is open to all candidates.