Lead Product Designer

About AirOps

Today thousands of leading brands and agencies use AirOps to win the battle for attention with content that both humans and agents love.

We’re building the platform and profession that will empower a million marketers to become modern leaders — not spectators — as AI reshapes how brands reach their audiences.

We’re backed by awesome investors, including Unusual Ventures, Wing VC, Founder Collective, XFund, Village Global, and Alt Capital, and we’re building a world-class team with in-person hubs in San Francisco, New York, and Montevideo, Uruguay.

About the Role

As the Lead Product Designer at AirOps, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the product experience and defining the visual and functional direction of our platform. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams—including product, engineering, and leadership—to craft intuitive, delightful, and high-impact solutions that solve real problems for our users. This is a unique opportunity for a hands-on designer and builder who thrives in high-velocity environments and is passionate about designing world-class products in a fast-growing startup.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design process for new product features: from research and ideation through prototyping, user testing, and final delivery

• Partner with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to define requirements, set design direction, and ensure executional excellence

• Develop and maintain a cohesive visual language and design system across the platform

• Champion user-centric and data-informed design decisions that align with business goals

• Conduct user research and translate insights into actionable solutions

• Experiment with emerging design tools and AI-powered workflows to drive innovation and efficiency

• Mentor and inspire other designers (and non-designers) to elevate design thinking throughout AirOps

Who You Are

• 4+ years of experience designing digital products in high-growth, fast-paced environments

• Fluency with modern prototyping tools (e.g. Cursor, Bolt, Claude Code) and comfort with design/collaboration environments like Figma and Git.

• Proven track record of leading zero-to-one product initiatives and scaling design systems

• Passion for using technology and design to solve challenging problems

Our Guiding Principles

1. Extreme Ownership

2. Quality

3. Curiosity and Play

4. Make Our Customers Heroes

5. Respectful Candor

Benefits

• Equity in a fast-growing startup

• Competitive benefits package tailored to your location

• Flexible time off policy

• Generous parental leave

• A fun-loving and (just a bit) nerdy team that loves to move fast!