Product Design Lead

Please Note:

This is a Utah-based hybrid position which will require some regular in-office days each week. Additionally, employment with Bamboo

HR is contingent on passing both a background and credit check.

As a Product Design Lead at Bamboo

HR, you’ll have the opportunity to turn complex HR processes into effortless, human-centered user journeys while guiding a team of designers toward excellence. You’ll collaborate on equal ground with engineers and product managers, mentor designers who put the customer first, and earn trust through positive, measurable impact as you oversee the design efforts for a specific area of our product.

This role also calls for thoughtful exploration of emerging technologies, including AI, to improve customer efficiency, clarity, and decision-making. You’ll help your team evaluate when intelligent or automated experiences add real value, ensuring they are transparent, trustworthy, and easy to use.

In this role, we want you to continue sharpening your own design skills while growing as a leader—coaching designers, setting direction, and raising the quality bar across your area. You’ll collaborate closely with the Director of Product Design to ensure all work meets our standards for usability, interaction design, and visual excellence. In short, we will look to you to guide your team in creating products that people love to use.

• Manage and mentor reports in a player/coach role as you create products that are easy and delightful to use
• Coordinate with Product Managers and Director of Product Design on staffing needs within your area of product responsibility
• Work with the Director of Product Design to align teams on quality, training, and professional development
• Participate in user research to guide product design decisions (contextual inquiry, usability testing, competitive analysis, etc.)
• Define, test, and iterate on interaction design for new and existing features (user flows, detailed wireframes, prototypes), including AI-assisted or AI-powered experiences where appropriate
• Experiment with AI tools and techniques within the design process to accelerate discovery, ideation, prototyping, and usability testing
• Collaborate with product manager and tech lead on planning and execution within your product area

A Product Design Lead at Bamboo

HR is both a people leader and a thoughtful designer that works with a high level of ownership over projects.

• Has a proven track record of designing successful SaaS-based software products and features from scratch – starting at initial research and discovery, through concept design/iteration, to completed product launch and continued improvements
• 6+ years of product based UX design experience working on complex desktop, web, and/or mobile software apps
• 2+ years of managing or mentoring other designers
• Has experience mentoring and growing individual contributors
• Has a portfolio of work demonstrating a high level of expertise in user research, information architecture, interaction design, prototyping/testing, and visual UI design
• Has experience exploring or shipping AI-assisted features, or demonstrates strong curiosity and judgment in applying emerging technologies to real customer problems

• Your design skills as demonstrated through an in-depth portfolio review of previous, relevant, product design work
• Your ability to collaborate with a team of product managers, designers, and developers
• How you are able to keep projects on track and progressing despite setbacks and unforeseen issues
• Your experience presenting ideas and designs to coworkers and customers
• Your ability to distill and communicate results of user research and demonstrate how it impacts the design
• How you’re incorporating AI into your design process and evaluating new tools or workflows to improve efficiency
• Examples of how you’ve explored or delivered AI-enabled product experiences that create real value for customers
• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
• Generous leave policies that include 4 weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, parental leave, and volunteer time off…