Product Design Group Lead

Location: careers (IL)

Experience Level: Team Leader

Description

Imagen is looking for a Product Design Team Lead to own design across our three product lines — Photo, Video, and Real Estate — and lead the team of designers who build them.

This is a player-coach role: roughly 40% hands-on design, 60% leadership. You will manage a team of designers, and hold the full design picture across the product. You own design decisions end-to-end .

This role offers the opportunity to directly shape Imagen's product experience at a category-defining moment, working closely with the heads of product, engineering, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Manage product designers Team including 1:1s, performance reviews, growth, and professional development.
• Drive design excellence and elevate the team's craft through structured feedback, critique, and leadership.
• Hold decision authority across Core, Video, and Real Estate.
• Stay hands-on on core initiatives; lead by doing, not just reviewing.
• Build and evolve the design system, patterns, and standards.
• Drive design workflows through AI and industry best practices.

Requirements

• An exceptional hands-on designer with Proven experience leading complex product areas and managing or mentoring senior designers.
• Deep UX and systems thinking, beyond visual polish.Design for the full workflow.
• Experience building or owning design systems and UX standards.
• A decision-maker who is comfortable making the call with incomplete data and real constraints.
• Strong opinions and the confidence to push back .
• A people leader who can earn the trust of an existing team.