Lead Product Designer - Remote at Cycloid

The role

You will lead the end-to-end design function for a full-scale platform rewrite at Cycloid. This hands-on role involves driving the product design vision and integrating AI into development and design workflows.

What you'll do

• Own and drive the product design vision in alignment with company goals
• Lead the end-to-end design of new features from discovery to UI execution
• Shape UX for complex technical domains like infrastructure automation and platform engineering
• Establish a scalable design system for the next-generation platform version
• Integrate AI-powered workflows into design processes to accelerate prototyping and iteration
• Collaborate daily with product and engineering teams to define and validate requirements

What you'll bring

• Ten plus years of experience in product design with lead-level ownership
• Proven experience designing technical products like developer tools or cloud software
• Strong skills in interaction design UX architecture and UI systems thinking
• Comfortable with frontend fundamentals and reasoning about implementation trade-offs
• Startup mindset with the ability to operate autonomously and bootstrap design practices

Your impact

You will serve as the primary driver for the product design vision, fundamentally rethinking the user experience for complex infrastructure workflows. By establishing a scalable design system and integrating AI, you will ensure the platform remains innovative and maintainable. Your leadership will bridge the gap between technical complexity and user success, directly influencing the success of the new platform architecture.