Omnea

London

Product Design Director

FULL TIME REMOTE SENIOR
Posted 9 months ago

Quick Summary

Role Overview

As the Director of Product Design, you will lead the design function to build and scale a world-class organization at Omnea. You will drive the design vision and ensure every customer interaction is intuitive, elegant, and trusted while nurturing design talent.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end product design strategy across all customer touchpoints
  • Manage and grow a high-performing team of designers through hiring and coaching
  • Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to align on roadmaps and user goals
  • Champion user-centered design practices including research and continuous iteration
  • Drive high-quality execution from initial vision decks to pixel-perfect delivery
  • Shape and maintain the design system and internal design practices

Requirements Snapshot

  • At least eight years of experience in product design
  • Minimum of three years in design leadership roles
  • Proven ability to grow design teams in fast-paced environments
  • Strong systems thinking with a portfolio spanning early-stage and scaled systems
  • Experience owning design strategy for complex platforms or internal tools

Expected Impact

You will play a pivotal role in scaling Omnea's product quality alongside its rapid company growth. By establishing a high design bar and nurturing talent, you will ensure the platform remains a best-in-class solution for enterprise procurement. Your leadership will directly influence how the company ships products and defines its brand voice in an untapped market.

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Job Description

Our Mission

At Omnea, we’re reinventing how enterprise businesses operate, starting with the most painful parts: procurement – where a single purchase can drag on for months, trigger 50+ emails, and pull in Finance, Legal, Security, and IT just to get something approved.

We’ve raised $75M from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, and Accel to change that. Our AI-native platform connects every person, step, and system so buying is fast, safe, and efficient – one place to request, automated approvals and renewals, real-time supplier risk, and complete spend visibility.

It's a $7B+ untapped market, and our traction reflects the scale of the opportunity: we’ve 10x’d ARR to double-digit millions in 18 months and are trusted by global enterprises like Spotify, MongoDB, Monzo, and Albertsons. We’re now the 4th fastest growing startup in Europe.

Our team previously scaled Tessian (cybersecurity tech, backed by Sequoia, Balderton, Accel, acquired post-Series C), and our team includes ex-founders operators who’ve grown unicorns, shipped world-class products, and executed at the highest levels. You’ll work alongside leaders like Ben, Abs, Sabrina, and Rebe.

Find out more about the team and life at Omnea here.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Director of Product Design to help us build and scale a world-class design organization at Omnea. In this role, you'll lead the design function across the company — driving vision, nurturing talent, and ensuring every customer interaction with Omnea is intuitive, elegant, and trusted.

This is a senior leadership role that combines strategic design leadership with organizational building. You’ll set the design bar, define team culture, and ensure we scale product quality alongside company growth.

You’ll be joining us at a pivotal time. We’ve just raised $50M in Series B funding from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, Accel, Point Nine, and First Round Capital. In the past year we’ve grown revenue 5x, tripled our customer base, and maintained >99% retention with enterprises like Spotify, Wise, Albertsons, Adecco, and McAfee. Our team is small but high-calibre -- it took over 10,000 interviews to hire our first 50 Omneans. Now we’re scaling fast and building the category of AI Supplier Relationship Management!

What You’ll Do

  • Own and evolve Omnea’s end-to-end product design strategy across all surfaces and customer touchpoints.

  • Manage and grow a high-performing team of product designers - including hiring, coaching, and performance development.

  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and GTM leaders to drive alignment on roadmap, priorities, and user experience goals.

  • Champion user-centered design practices - incorporating research, prototyping, and continuous iteration into the team’s DNA.

  • Drive high-quality execution across all phases - from vision decks to pixel-perfect delivery.

  • Shape and maintain our design system, brand voice, and internal design practices.

About You

  • 8+ years of experience in product design, including 3+ years in design leadership roles.

  • Proven ability to grow and lead high-performing design teams in fast-paced environments.

  • Deep systems thinking -with a portfolio that spans early-stage design and scaled systems.

  • Exceptional communicator and cross-functional partner - you build trust quickly and lead with empathy.

  • Experience owning design strategy across complex platforms or internal tools.

  • You care deeply about product and design craft - and know how to scale that care across a team.

Why Join Omnea

Omnea is rebuilding the enterprise back-office stack to be delightful, composable, and seamless. That only works if the user experience is best-in-class - and you’ll be a key driver of that vision.

As Director of Product Design, you'll shape how we work, how we hire, and what we ship — with massive ownership and outsized impact. We care deeply about craft and velocity. If you do too, we’d love to talk.

At Omnea, we embrace diversity. To build a product that's loved by everyone, we're best served by a team with all sorts of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't quite match the full job spec! And regardless of your race, religion, colour, gender, or anything else! If you think you could be a good fit for Omnea, please reach out.

A few things to note:

  • We work Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays in-person at our offices. At this early stage of our company life-cycle it's important to us that we get this together-time, and you can read more about why we believe this is a winning move here

  • We're commercial, ambitious and we don't pretend otherwise! We're actively seeking folks looking to make the most of a career-defining opportunity, with the hunger to be part of building something really impressive. You can see our values here

  • We sometimes use AI note-takers to help us transcribe interview notes, so we can be more present in your interview. If you'd like to opt out of us using automatic transcribers, please note this in the free text field in your application, otherwise we'll take your application as confirmation that you're happy for us to use notetakers (whether added to video calls or in the background).

We are proud to be recognised for both our culture and product, and we are just getting started. Join us as we grow!

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