What You'll Do

Raise the bar on design craft

• Lead design on high-impact product surfaces — UX flows, interaction design, visual design, and information architecture across a complex, data-rich platform
• Own and evolve our design system to ensure consistency and velocity as the product grows
• Critique and improve work across the team using real design principles — practically and constructively, not academically
• Produce implementation-ready designs that engineers can build from with confidence

Manage and develop the design team

• Manage and mentor our current product designers with clear feedback, meaningful growth opportunities, and high autonomy
• Define what good design looks like at Intelligems — establish quality standards and lightweight principles without introducing heavy process

Shape AI-native product experiences

• Lead design for agent-first, prompt-driven product interactions where AI runs experiments, surfaces recommendations, and acts on behalf of merchants
• Think from first principles about trust, control, and transparency for systems that take actions autonomously on a user's behalf

Evolve how design works

• Help define what the design process looks like when engineers can generate functional UI from a prompt in minutes
• Rethink traditional design artifacts, handoffs, and workflows for a team that moves fast and leverages AI tools at every step

Partner across the org

• Work directly with PMs, engineers, and founders to shape the roadmap from a design perspective
• Bring a point of view on where design effort will have the most leverage — not every surface deserves the same level of investment, and you'll help the team focus

What You Bring

• 10-15 years of product design experience, including experience managing and mentoring others
• A strong portfolio demonstrating fluency in information architecture, interaction design, and visual design across complex B2B products — with clear rationale for your decisions, not just visual polish
• Hands-on experience building or meaningfully contributing to a design system
• Good instincts about where to invest deeply in craft vs. where "good enough" is the right call
• Genuine curiosity about AI-native design — you're thinking seriously about what UX looks like when systems act autonomously, even if you haven't shipped it yet
• Already using AI tools in your own design workflow in specific, tangible ways — not just general enthusiasm
• A player-coach orientation: you want to lead the team and do the work, and you don't see those as competing priorities
• Bonus: growth-stage startup experience, ecommerce or retail tech background, familiarity with A/B testing or experimentation platforms.

What Success Looks Like

• Design quality across the product is noticeably higher within your first few months — in your own work and in the output of the designers you manage
• You've identified the highest-leverage design surfaces in the product and allocated the team's time accordingly
• The design team is growing: they articulate stronger design rationale, make better trade-off decisions, and feel supported without feeling micromanaged
• Product and Engineering leaders actively seek out your perspective on roadmap decisions because it's grounded in user insight and craft
• You've shipped at least one AI-native design surface that demonstrates how trust and user control should work when the product acts on its own
• You've started testing new ways of working — how design and engineering collaborate, what artifacts matter, how AI fits into the process — and the team is learning from the experiments