Lead Product Designer - Design Systems & UX | Faire

As a Lead Product Designer, you will join a collaborative team of designers embedded directly within core product pods to shape the future of Faire's marketplace platform. You will lead end-to-end design initiatives for thousands of small retailers and maker brands—taking projects from deep user discovery and rapid prototyping through to polished visual execution and production. In this high-impact lead role, you will influence product direction, tell compelling stories to align cross-functional leadership, evolve Faire's global design system, and experiment with AI-integrated design workflows to accelerate product innovation.

Key Responsibilities

End-to-End Product Design & Strategy

• Strategic Direction & Vision: Influence what gets built by grounding design decisions in deep customer understanding, quantitative data, and broader business context.
• End-to-End Execution: Lead the complete design lifecycle—from exploratory user research and rapid wireframing to polished visual craft, motion design, and production delivery.
• Storytelling & Alignment: Craft compelling visual stories and design presentations that connect user experience decisions to tangible business metrics, driving cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, and executive leadership.
• Design System Evolution: Push Faire’s enterprise design system forward by introducing scalable UI patterns, motion principles, and refined visual language across surfaces.

Prototyping, AI Workflows & Craft Leadership

• Fearless Prototyping: Leverage modern prototyping tools and AI-assisted design workflows to explore new paradigms, test usability assumptions, and accelerate team velocity.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate daily with Product Managers, Software Engineers, Data Analysts, User Researchers, and Customer Support teams.
• Craft Mentorship: Elevate team capability by sharing design craft, UX frameworks, and storytelling approaches to raise the quality bar across the design organization.

Requirements

Product Design Mastery & Systems Thinking

• Professional Track Record: 6+ years of professional experience designing complex digital products and software systems.
• Core Design Expertise: Exceptional skills spanning interaction design, visual craft, information architecture, UX writing/content design, and scalable systems thinking.
• Design System Architecture: Proven experience contributing to and evolving large-scale, multi-platform design systems.
• Business Alignment: Strong capability to connect design directions directly to measurable business outcomes and customer metrics.
• Modern Tooling & AI Prototyping: Hands-on experience and enthusiasm for testing new design tools, interactive prototyping environments, and AI-integrated design workflows.
• Portfolio Demonstration: A comprehensive portfolio demonstrating visionary product thinking, exceptional visual craft, and clear communication of business/customer impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• First-hand entrepreneurial, retail, or boutique maker experience (bringing direct empathy for small business workflows).
• Experience designing two-sided e-commerce platforms, SMB SaaS tools, or B2B marketplaces.
• Advanced skills in micro-interactions, motion design, or UI animation.

Total Rewards & Benefits

• Compensation & Equity: Hub base salary range ($184,000 – $253,000 USD) + competitive equity grants + comprehensive benefits package.
• Time Off & Workplace Flexibility: Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO), company-wide recharge days, and up to 4 weeks of remote work flexibility per year for hybrid employees.
• Family & Parental Support: Paid parental leave (up to 16 weeks) alongside comprehensive family-building and fertility benefits through Carrot (including a lifetime reimbursement allowance).
• Health & Mental Wellbeing: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision health coverage, plus mental health support and dedicated coaching through Modern Health.
• Stipends & Retirement: Professional development stipends, wellness allowances, work-from-home setup stipends, and an employer-sponsored retirement plan.