Lead Product Designer (AI) - Paris

Location: London, Paris, Barcelona, or Berlin; flexible hybrid work model.

Company

hirify.global is an AI-powered spend management and procurement platform covering procurement, payment cards, expense management, invoice processing, and accounting automation for companies with up to 1,000 employees.

What you will do

• Shape product and experience direction across several connected squads or a significant product area.
• Connect customer insight, product strategy, business objectives, and technical context to identify and prioritise high-impact opportunities.
• Align cross-functional teams around shared problems, experience principles, intended outcomes, and success measures.
• Lead complex design initiatives through discovery, exploration, delivery, measurement, and iteration while remaining hands-on.
• Create coherent end-to-end experiences and resolve systemic UX issues across workflows, features, and squad boundaries.
• Establish design standards and coach designers in autonomy, craft, product thinking, and organisational influence.

Requirements

• Significant experience designing complex digital products in cross-functional teams, typically seven or more years.
• Experience leading design across multiple squads, interconnected workflows, or a substantial product domain.
• Strong product and strategic thinking, connecting user needs, business priorities, and technical constraints.
• Excellent systems thinking, interaction design, and information architecture skills, particularly for complex or data-heavy experiences.
• Strong experience using research and evidence to frame problems and influence product direction.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and storytelling skills, including the ability to align teams and influence senior stakeholders.
• Ability to remain hands-on while creating direction, context, and standards that enable others to work autonomously.
• Experience coaching designers and raising design quality and effectiveness across a wider team.

Nice to have

• Experience designing AI-assisted, conversational, or agentic product experiences.
• Experience in fintech, spend management, procurement, or internal tooling.
• Experience shaping experiences across a complex platform or multi-product ecosystem.
• Familiarity with experimentation, analytics, and data-informed product development.
• Experience guiding design-system adoption or governance across multiple teams.
• Experience defining shared experience principles, patterns, or quality standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work model across London, Paris, Barcelona, or Berlin.
• Work on AI-powered financial operations at the intersection of finance, operations, AI, and user experience.
• Strategic individual contributor role with significant product scope and influence.
• Collaborative, international product organisation with opportunities to grow across product, design, and AI innovation.
• Competitive compensation and equity.

Hiring process

• Introductory conversation with Talent Acquisition.
• Portfolio presentation and discussion with the Hiring Manager.
• Collaborative live workshop, followed by final conversations with Product and Design leadership.