Lead Product Designer (DevOps)

TL;DR

Lead Product Designer (DevOps): Drive the design vision and execution of the hirify.global platform, focusing on complex workflows, platform UX, and long-term product evolution. Focus on enabling both technical users and stakeholders to succeed, and collaborating with frontend, backend, and DevOps teams.

Location: Remote in Europe, UK

Company

hirify.global focuses on scaling platform engineering initiatives by optimizing the developer experience and operational efficiency.

What you will do

• Own and drive the product design vision for hirify.global, in alignment with product strategy and company goals.
• Design new product features end to end, from discovery and user flows to prototypes, high fidelity UI, and iterative improvements.
• Lead design decisions on complex, technical topics such as platform UX, permissions, workflows, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, frontend, backend, and DevOps teams to define requirements, challenge solutions, and validate designs.
• Ensure consistency, scalability, and quality across the product through design systems and shared patterns.
• Work closely with frontend engineers to translate designs into high quality Vue.js implementations, and when relevant, implement visual or interaction changes yourself.

Requirements

• Proven experience in product design, including experience in a lead or senior ownership role > 10 years
• Demonstrate capability to start from scratch a team and to scale it up to 5 designers, today, there is 1 designer in the team
• Demonstrate capability to implement best practices
• Strong track record of designing complex digital products, ideally developer tools, platforms, or technical SaaS.
• Excellent skills in interaction design, UX architecture, and visual and UI design.
• Solid understanding of frontend fundamentals such as HTML, CSS, and basic JavaScript, with the ability to read and reason about code.
• Fluent in English.

Nice to have

• Speaks French.
• Understand our market: IDP, DevOps, Cloud, CMP, dev tools

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• 100% remote work.
• High level of autonomy and ownership over product design.
• Support for professional growth and continuous learning.
• Home office setup budget up to €1200.
• Choose your own device policy.
• One company retreat per year somewhere in the EU.

Hiring process

• Application review, including resume and portfolio.
• Interview with the current design lead and team designer.
• Design exercise to evaluate product thinking, design quality, and ability to consider implementation.