Head of Product Design (AI/SaaS)

Location: Remote, UK

Salary: £125,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops a School Management Suite used by more than 13,000 schools and trusts, combining products into a coherent platform that supports school staff and education workflows.

What you will do

• Set and own design strategy, direction, standards, systems, and ways of working across the product portfolio.
• Represent design in product leadership, strategy, and roadmap decisions, advocating for design with senior non-design stakeholders.
• Line-manage, mentor, and develop the product design team while setting priorities across the portfolio.
• Embed designers into product teams for focused periods and lead the integration of design practices following acquisitions and organisational change.
• Champion usability through user research, testing, feedback analysis, and UX/UI improvements in collaboration with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders.
• Develop collaborative and innovative ways of working, including AI-augmented and agentic workflows across design, product, and engineering.

Requirements

• Proven experience designing within B2B SaaS products.
• Experience as part of a product leadership team, confidently presenting and defending design decisions to senior non-design stakeholders.
• Experience running a central or agency-style design function, including setting standards, systems, and ways of working and embedding designers into other teams.
• Experience integrating teams, products, or ways of working after acquisitions or major organisational change.
• Genuine enthusiasm for agentic and AI-augmented ways of working, including supporting product managers with design-adjacent work without compromising quality or consistency.
• Strong experience with and empathy for product management practices.
• Proficiency with tools such as Figma, Storybook, Cursor, and Claude.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience leading and mentoring designers, with a focus on professional growth.
• Deep understanding of user research methodologies, information architecture, and interaction design principles, plus an entrepreneurial mindset suited to a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote role with flexible working discussions and a collaborative, inclusive environment.
• 32 days of holiday plus Bank Holidays, including company-wide days.
• Wellbeing support, virtual GP access, mental health support, counselling, personalised health checks, and private dental insurance.
• Life assurance at three times annual salary, salary sacrifice pension, and enhanced maternity, adoption, and paternity leave.
• Professional development budget, access to learning and financial wellbeing services, and one paid volunteering day each year.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.

Hiring process

• Phone screen.
• Two interviews, followed by a take-home video presentation task.
• Final interview.