VP, Product Design (AI)

Location: London, England. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location, with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule depending on the role.

Base salary: £158,000–£197,000 GBP per year.

Company

hirify.global provides retrieval intelligence, search, and product discovery technology for more than 18,000 customers.

What you will do

• Set product design vision and strategy for the application experience, from developer onboarding to enterprise-grade agent orchestration.
• Define AI design standards covering agentic UX, trust, transparency, human-in-the-loop controls, streaming states, explainability, and graceful failure.
• Own Satellite as a product, including its roadmap, governance, contribution model, adoption metrics, accessibility, and AI-native primitives.
• Build and lead a technical design organization spanning product design, design engineering, UX research, and content design.
• Maintain the usability and performance quality bar across products.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and go-to-market leadership while representing design at the executive level.

Requirements

• 15+ years of product design experience, including 6+ years leading design organizations and managers of managers.
• Experience in B2B SaaS or developer-platform companies and ownership of complex technical application experiences for developer and business audiences.
• Shipped AI/ML-powered conversational, agentic, or generative product experiences.
• Technical depth in React, component architecture, design tokens, APIs, and LLM behavior including latency, hallucination, and non-determinism.
• Experience building or scaling a design system with cross-organizational adoption, roadmap, and governance.
• Executive presence and a record of growing teams and developing design leaders.

Nice to have

• Experience with search, discovery, e-commerce, or data-intensive platforms.
• Background as a design engineer, UX engineer, or developer.
• Published talks or writing about AI design patterns or design systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible workplace model focused on impact, contribution, and output.
• Remote or hybrid-remote work options may be available depending on the role and location.
• Values include grit, trust, candor, care, and humility.
• Inclusive, collaborative environment with autonomy and respect for diverse backgrounds.
• Global office presence in Paris, New York City, London, Sydney, and Bucharest.