Head of Product Design

Canary Technologies is seeking a Head of Product Design to lead the development of a unified design system that will govern the interaction principles for both human users and AI agents. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience in product design, with at least 3 years in a leadership role. They should be meticulous, opinionated, and comfortable with both hands-on design work and strategic thinking. The role offers a range of benefits, including health insurance from day one, flexible working hours, and a travel stipend.

• Defining and enforcing a unified design system across all product surfaces, ensuring consistency and clarity.
• Establishing clear information hierarchy standards and building design principles that can be programmatically enforced.
• Partnering closely with engineering and product teams to make the design system the source of truth and driving convergence toward a single coherent system.

• Excited by the idea that your design system becomes the rulebook for AI agents building and operating UI
• 8+ years in Product Design with 3+ years leading teams directly. Experience operating in B2B or B2B2C SaaS preferred
• Meticulous, opinionated, and able to hold the line on standards while moving fast
• Fluency in design systems, accessibility, UX research methods, and experimentation. Familiarity with analytics tools
• Strong partner to Product and Engineering. Comfortable in ambiguity, rapid iteration, and enterprise constraints
• Comfortable being both hands-on (Figma, tokens, specs) and strategic (principles, governance, cross-pod alignment)
• Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end systems thinking, exceptional product craft, and shipped work at scale across web and mobile is essential
• You are inspired by companies like Rippling, Linear, or Stripe where systematic design creates product clarity
• Proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain diverse design talent. Strength in feedback, coaching, and org-building