Director of Product Design

About The Role

We’re hiring a research-driven, product-minded Director of Product Design to discover, design, and build the agentic products that power Redesign’s most important decisions: the founders we back, the concepts we pursue, the people we hire, the investors we work with, and the healthcare partners we support. This is a senior individual‑contributor role for someone who can sit with a user until they truly understand the work, translate that understanding into elegant product, and then build it themselves.

You will own the full arc—from user research, to design, to shipping a working front‑end with AI‑native tools, to the product judgment that decides what’s worth building  will ship with the ownership of a founder, the empathy of a researcher, and the taste of a designer who sweats every detail. You keep current with frontier AI tooling and retool your tradecraft every day.

You will join a global team of former founders, architects, and research scientists, and your peers will be among the most senior technical and business leaders at the firm. This is an IC role; you will lead through craft and influence rather than headcount.

• Go deep on the user. Embed with our investment, talent, and global development teams to understand high‑judgment, often messy workflows from the inside. Run the research—interviews, observation, synthesis—that uncovers what people are really trying to do, and where today’s tools fail them. Turn that insight into a clear, opinionated point of view—not on how to wrap tools around today’s processes, but on how the work itself should change with the power of AI.
• Design products people love. Take problems from ambiguous to shipped: information architecture, interaction design, and where it counts—high‑craft visual design. You architect interfaces for humans and agents with equal deliberation, treating tools, context, memory, and failure recovery as product surfaces.
• Build, don’t just spec. Use Claude, Claude Code, and modern AI design and prototyping tools to build real, working front ends—not handoff files. You own the frontend, working alongside engineers who handle the backend and the heavier technical lifting, so you close the gap between design and engineering by shipping the interface yourself and raise the bar for what a designer can deliver.
• Own the product. Act as the product manager for the workflows you take on: set the strategy, prioritize ruthlessly, define what good looks like, and measure whether what you shipped actually changed how people work.
• Raise the bar across the firm. Use the work you ship to teach the organization what great, AI‑native product design looks like, contribute reusable patterns back to our core systems, and help teammates and portfolio companies build differently.

• You have spent 10+ years designing and shipping software products, with a substantial portion of that time owning user research—you are as comfortable running a discovery interview and synthesizing findings as you are in a design tool. Bonus points for founding a company, building a product from 0‑1, or designing for expert and high‑judgment users.
• You have a strong design practice across interaction, information architecture, and product thinking, with visual design as a notable strength. Your portfolio shows products that are both deeply usable and genuinely beautiful.
• You have completely reinvented your workflow around AI. You build working front ends with tools like Claude, Claude Code, and modern AI prototyping environments, and you ship interfaces rather than hand them off. Comfort with HTML/CSS and a modern component framework (React or similar) is expected; you don’t need to be a career engineer—you’ll be supported by engineers who own the backend and deeper technical work—but you do need to build the frontend yourself.
• You bring product management instincts: you can set strategy, prioritize, define metrics, and make the call on what to build and what to cut—often with incomplete information.
• You are drawn to the messy human systems where data, relationships, and expertise combine to predict the future. Bonus points for having worked…