Lead Product Designer

About the role

HighLevel is seeking a Lead Product Designer to elevate product experiences through exceptional craft, systems thinking, and strategic influence. You will partner with product and engineering leaders to define product vision, mentor designers, and ensure high-quality, coherent design standards across complex SaaS platforms. This role requires a seasoned designer capable of connecting customer needs and business goals to polished, scalable product solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead design strategy and execution for one or more product pillars from discovery through delivery.
• Translate customer needs, business goals, product strategy and technical constraints into clear experience direction and design roadmaps.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to define product vision, prioritize opportunities and align teams around high-quality outcomes.
• Influence leadership decisions through customer empathy, data synthesis, product judgment, storytelling and strong design rationale.
• Drive design quality reviews and set standards for usability, accessibility, interaction quality, visual consistency and design system alignment.
• Raise the quality of multiple teams by mentoring designers, improving critique, strengthening shared patterns and making standards easier to adopt.
• Define and socialize metrics for design quality and impact.
• Lead complex discovery and design efforts through ambiguity by synthesizing inputs, framing decisions and helping teams move with clarity.

Required skills

• Product Design
• SaaS
• Design Systems
• Interaction Design
• Visual Design
• Prototyping
• Accessibility
• Information Architecture
• Usability Testing
• AI-powered design tools

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant product design experience
• 2+ years in a leadership, mentorship or design direction capacity

About the Company

HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that provides agencies, entrepreneurs and SMBs with the infrastructure to build, automate and scale. Supporting over 1 million businesses across 150+ countries, the company operates as a global, remote-first organization with over 2,000 team members.