Nooks

San Francisco

Head of Design at Nooks

REMOTE MID
Posted 7 months ago
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Company snapshot

Nooks

Nooks provides an AI-powered Parallel Dialer and Virtual Salesfloor to boost sales productivity by 5x, enabling real-time collaboration and call automation for enhanced performance.

E-commerce Publishing Information Technology & Services SAAS
HQ
San Diego, California, United States
Team size
11-50

Quick Summary

Role Overview

The Head of Design will lead the design vision and execution for the Nooks product platform. This strategic and hands-on role involves managing a small team while directly shaping the user experience for modern revenue teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define the overall design vision and ensure a cohesive product experience
  • Recruit and mentor a team of exceptional product designers
  • Lead the end-to-end product experience from concept to execution
  • Collaborate with product and engineering leaders on the roadmap
  • Simplify complex AI and workflow problems into intuitive interfaces
  • Develop scalable design systems to maintain consistency and velocity

Requirements Snapshot

  • At least 8 years of professional product design experience
  • Proven experience managing and leading other designers
  • Background in designing complex SaaS products or workflow tools
  • Ability to balance high-level strategy with hands-on execution
  • Experience building design teams within fast-growing startup environments

Expected Impact

You will establish the systems and culture that allow design to scale alongside the company's rapid growth. By translating complex AI capabilities into elegant workflows, you will directly influence how modern sales teams operate and help the company maintain its high-growth trajectory.

A DesignJobs.World summary of the employer's posting, written to highlight scope, requirements, and fit (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

About Nooks.ai:

Nooks is an applied AI lab building the Agent Workspace for GTM. We design AI agents that operate across the full sales action set, from account strategy to prospect research and outreach. Building 0→1 has never been easier, but selling at the speed of the market remains the last frontier for AI. Our mission is to 10x every seller by automating the busywork so they can focus on what humans do best: closing deals.

Today, over 1,500 customers run on Nooks, including Notion, HubSpot, Cursor, and Rippling. We’ve raised $70M+ from top VCs like Kleiner Perkins, which made its first sales-tech investment in over a decade with us. Since then, we’ve tripled ARR each year for 3 years running and grown a high-caliber team turning the art of sales into a scalable science.

About the Role:

As Head of Design, you will own the design vision and execution across the entire Nooks product.. You will be responsible for ensuring the platform is intuitive, beautiful, and built for the real workflows of modern revenue teams. This will initially lead a small team.


This role is both strategic and hands-on and you’ll set the design direction for the company while also diving deep into product details. You’ll work closely with product, engineering, and GTM leaders to translate complex problems into elegant user experiences.


You will be building the future design organization with AI, establishing the systems, culture, and standards that allow design to scale as the company grows.


What You’ll Do:

  • Define the design vision for Nooks and ensure a cohesive experience across the entire product

  • Lead and grow the design team, recruiting and mentoring exceptional product designers

  • Own the end-to-end product experience, from early discovery and concepting through polished execution

  • Partner closely with Product and Engineering to shape the product roadmap and ship high-impact features

  • Translate complex AI and workflow problems into simple, intuitive interfaces

  • Build scalable design systems that enable consistency and velocity across the product

  • Champion the voice of the user, grounding design decisions in research, feedback, and real customer workflows

Raise the design bar across the company, influencing product thinking and user experience at every level

What You Bring:

  • 8+ years of product design experience

  • Experiencing managing designers

  • A strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional UX, product thinking, and visual design

  • Experience designing complex SaaS products or workflow tools

  • A track record of building and scaling design teams in fast-growing startups

  • Ability to move fluidly between high-level product strategy and hands-on design execution

  • Strong cross-functional leadership with product, engineering, and GTM teams

  • Passion for building products that users love and rely on every day

  • Comfort working in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup environment

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Nooks is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. We believe in providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Nooks does not discriminate in hiring, promotion, compensation, or any other employment practices, and we are committed to ensuring a workplace that is free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply and join our team.

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