Head of Design

Lead and execute product design across Red Cell Partners and its portfolio companies, combining hands-on design execution with strategic leadership across UX/UI, prototypes, brand systems, storytelling, and web development support.

Responsibilities

• Partner with founders, product, engineering, and leadership to translate ambiguous problems into clear product design direction.
• Build concepts and future-state prototypes to test ideas and inform strategy.
• Own user experience design across web, mobile, agents, wearables, and emerging modalities.
• Design and ship products and improvements from early concepts through high-fidelity prototypes and visuals.
• Design and ship product UX/UI, prototypes, brand systems, and storytelling.
• Collaborate with Marketing on style and branding implementation.
• Establish lightweight design frameworks, standards, and patterns.
• Define scalable design systems as companies mature.
• Navigate ambiguity, evolving priorities, and high-stakes decisions.
• Balance speed, quality, and pragmatism.
• Support web development for marketing, brand, and communications digital presence.

Requirements

• 12+ years of product, UX, and front-end design experience, including leadership roles in high-growth startups or scale-ups.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design, HCI, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of AI fundamentals and their application in product experiences.
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Expert Figma and Figma Make skills or equivalent product skills.
• Deep understanding of responsive, mobile-first design.
• Experience designing across multiple phases of company growth.
• Exceptional UX, visual design, systems thinking, and storytelling skills.
• Strong product intuition connecting user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
• Proven ability to develop experiences that meet or exceed initial product proposals.

Benefits

• $200,000-$250,000 base salary plus bonus.
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• 14 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave.
• Unlimited PTO with management approval.
• Professional development and continued learning opportunities.
• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives.
• Mental health benefits through Tara Mind.
• Cost-effective GLP-1 solutions through Crux.
• Remote work.