Product Design Lead

About the role

Fuel50 is seeking a Product Design Lead to shape the future of their product experience and design organization. This senior player-coach role involves leading the design team while remaining hands-on with product strategy, prototyping, and shipping high-quality experiences. You will partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership to influence business decisions and build trusted, valuable AI-driven products.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and coach product designers to support their professional growth.
• Define and communicate a clear product design vision across skills intelligence and talent mobility platforms.
• Own design direction by identifying opportunities, forming a point of view, and prototyping tangible ideas.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams throughout the discovery and delivery lifecycle.
• Design human-centered AI experiences, including agent and assistant interfaces across multiple surfaces.
• Evolve the design system, accessibility standards, and design-to-code practices to ensure product coherence.

Required skills

• Product Design
• SaaS
• Interaction Design
• Visual Design
• Prototyping
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• WCAG
• Design Systems

Nice to have

• AI coding tools
• Claude Code
• Codex
• Cursor

Qualifications

• 7 or more years of experience in product design in a SaaS or technology environment
• At least 2 years of experience leading, managing or coaching designers
• Right to work in New Zealand

Benefits

• Birthday day off
• Anniversary day off
• Quarterly ReFuel Day
• Flexible work hours
• Progressive parental leave policy
• Subsidised health insurance

About the Company

Fuel50 is a workforce transformation platform that helps organisations understand workforce capability, build skills, and enable internal mobility in an AI-driven world. Their products combine skills intelligence, talent marketplace experiences, and responsible AI.