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Odin

Product Design Lead

New York, NY · On-site

$145K - $200K/yr

Your Experience Must-Have * 8+ years of product design experience, with a strong track record of ... The ability to independently lead discovery, including customer interviews, assumption validation ...

AKQA

Freelance Design Lead

Atlanta, GA · On-site

$3.0K - $3.4K/wk

We are seeking an experienced Freelance Design Lead to support one of the world's most recognized ... Shape the creative vision for digital platforms and products, aligning with client goals and the ...

DualEntry

Product Design Lead

New York, NY · On-site

$150K - $225K/yr

Help define our design culture and constantly find ways to improve our product development speed What sets you up for success * Hardcore work ethic and high agency * 6+ years designing complex SaaS ...

Texture

Product Design Lead

New York, NY · On-site

$191K - $224K/yr

Own end-to-end product design across multiple surfaces-from early concepts through detailed specs and implementation support * Design data-heavy interfaces including dashboards, tables, maps, and ...

AKQA

Freelance Design Lead

Seattle, WA · On-site

We are seeking an experienced Freelance Design Lead to support one of the most globally recognized ... Shape the creative vision for digital platforms and products, aligning with client goals and the ...

Rippling

Product Design Lead, Finance

Seattle, WA · On-site

$130.05 - $250/hr

Product Design Lead - Finance Rippling - Seattle, Washington, United States About the company Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce ...

Rippling

Product Design Lead, Finance

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$144 - $252/hr

As Product Design Lead for Finance, you'll set the vision for Rippling's Spend platform and drive it from concept to shipped reality. You'll lead design for surfaces like cards, expenses, bill pay ...

Rippling

Product Design Lead, Finance

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$144 - $252/hr

As Product Design Lead for Finance, you'll set the vision for Rippling's Spend platform and drive it from concept to shipped reality. You'll lead design for surfaces like cards, expenses, bill pay ...

Rippling

Product Design Lead, Finance

New York, NY · On-site

$153K - $250K/yr

As Product Design Lead for Finance, you'll set the vision for Rippling's Spend platform and drive it from concept to shipped reality. You'll lead design for surfaces like cards, expenses, bill pay ...

NorthEastern

WV · On-site

$139K - $171K/yr

JOBSUMMARY The Product Design Lead will report to the Chief Research Operations Officer and Director of the Northeast Region of the of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Safeguarding the Entire ...

NorthEastern

Product Design Lead - SECURE Center

Boston, MA · On-site

$168K - $207K/yr

JOBSUMMARY The Product Design Lead will report to the Chief Research Operations Officer and Director of the Northeast Region of the of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Safeguarding the Entire ...

Skydio, Inc

UX Product Design Lead

San Mateo, CA · On-site

$125K - $164K/yr

We are looking for a UX Product Design Lead who understands that trust isn't a buzzword; it's built through absolute system transparency, pragmatic workflows, and giving the operator a clear handle ...

Rippling

Product Design Lead, Design Systems

New York, NY · On-site

$174K - $290K/yr

... production-ready code based on our design system. Because Design Systems is at the heart of the Rippling Platform, this is one of the highest-impact positions at Rippling. As a Lead Designer on the ...

Quatrain Creative

Design Lead

Orlando, FL · On-site

$80K/yr

You'll split your time between creating design work yourself and leading a small team of freelance ... and production skills in Adobe InDesign and PowerPoint. * If your experience is primarily in ...

C the Signs

Design Lead

$112K - $147K/yr

This Role We're looking for a Design Lead to take our product from zero to one, and beyond. This role sits at the intersection of consumer product design, AI, and health. The Design Lead will ...

Quatrain Creative

Design Lead

Orlando, FL · On-site +1

$80K/yr

You'll split your time between creating design work yourself and leading a small team of freelance ... and production skills in Adobe InDesign and PowerPoint. * If your experience is primarily in ...

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Product Design Lead

Odin

New York, NY • On-site

$145K - $200K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 26 days ago

Job description

About Odin
Odin is building infrastructure for the future of private markets. We believe capital is one of the most powerful tools for shaping the world - and more people should be putting it to work. Our mission is to make it radically easier to raise and deploy capital, so that anyone, anywhere, can back the companies and ideas they believe in.
Our first product is a full-stack platform for launching and running private investment firms - think Shopify for VC and PE. We handle all the infrastructure: from legals and investor onboarding to KYC/AML, payments, tax, reporting, and exits.
We're already trusted by over 10,000 angels, VCs, and founders. We administer over $500m in assets, covering investments from pre-seed to series E. This includes household names like ElevenLabs, OpenAI, SpaceX, xAI, Anduril, etc. but also new companies creating everything from synthetic brains to small nuclear reactors.
Mission
We're looking for a senior design leader who combines exceptional visual craft with systems-level product thinking. You'll play a central role in defining and elevating the customer experience at Odin as we prepare for a major US launch.
The scope here is intentionally broad. Your remit spans across product and visual brand identity. You'll help evolve our brand identity alongside the founders, expressing the philosophy, ambition and cultural stance of a company that is rethinking what progress means and how we get there.
Working with our existing designer, our Head of Product and the wider product team, you'll help set the design direction for the company, raise the quality bar and shape how design operates as we grow. You'll bring experience and conviction to make strong design decisions quickly, while creating the systems, practices and feedback loops that allow consistently excellent work to scale.
You'll remain close to the work: exploring complex problems, building and testing prototypes, speaking directly with customers and translating what you learn into polished, production-ready experiences. You won't be stepping into a finished structure. You'll be helping to shape the next stage of it.
Your remit spans both product and brand. You'll turn complex, regulation-heavy workflows and dense interfaces into experiences that feel clear, intuitive and inevitable.
Your Must-Have Qualities
We value designers who combine rigorous reasoning, high agency, exceptional craft and deep customer empathy. You'll succeed in this role if you are:
  • Deeply user-centric: You advocate for the customer and care about how people experience the product. You use interviews, data and observation to understand real behaviour-not just what users say.
  • Exceptional in your craft: You have a highly developed eye for composition, hierarchy, interaction and detail. You create polished, cohesive experiences and hold the shipped product to a very high standard.
  • Reasoned and curious: You challenge assumptions, ask sharp questions and look for root causes rather than applying surface-level fixes.
  • Decisive with strong judgment: You make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, quality, complexity and compliance. You explore enough to make an informed decision, form a clear point of view and move quickly.
  • High agency: You don't wait for perfect information or detailed direction. You identify what needs to happen, bring others with you and take responsibility for moving the work forward.
  • Systematic about discovery: You build repeatable ways of learning from customers, test assumptions early and establish regular feedback loops rather than treating research as a one-off stage.
  • Clear and collaborative: You articulate your thinking simply, write clearly and give engineers the context and detail needed to build what was intended. You debate constructively, respond well to feedback and operate with conviction without ego.
  • Comfortable with complexity and ambiguity: You create structure from incomplete information and navigate technical, regulatory and operational constraints without losing momentum.
  • Outcome-driven: You care about what happens after something ships. You measure impact and ensure your work genuinely improves the customer experience, business outcomes or operational efficiency.

Your Experience
Must-Have
  • 8+ years of product design experience, with a strong track record of shaping complex products end to end.
  • Experience as an early or senior designer within a high-growth product team.
  • In-house experience, with ownership of complete customer journeys rather than isolated screens.
  • A portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design, polished production-ready UI and measurable business or customer impact.
  • Strong information architecture, interaction design and prototyping skills.
  • The ability to produce high-quality work at pace, make confident visual decisions and maintain a consistently high bar across the product.
  • Strong systems thinking, with experience designing complete workflows spanning user actions, communications, automations, permissions, operational processes and technical constraints.
  • Experience designing complex, multi-party products or working within regulated environments.
  • The ability to independently lead discovery, including customer interviews, assumption validation, prototyping, usability testing and iteration.
  • Experience establishing structured, repeatable customer-research and feedback practices.

Salary
The salary band for this role is $154k-$200k + equity options
Working at Odin
This role is based in New York, working closely alongside one of our founders, product and the commercial team we're building in the US, while collaborating closely with the rest of the team in the UK. The speed and intensity we operate at make in-person collaboration important, and we expect at least three days per week in the office.
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), life insurance and disability cover
  • Your own wellness, learning and equipment budgets
  • Company card from day one
  • 33 days of flexible "All-in" PTO
  • Enhanced fully paid parental leave
  • Paid sick leave
  • Work from anywhere for up to 6 weeks each year

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