Director, UX Product Design

What You'll Do

Serving as a player–coach, you’ll balancing hands-on individual contributor design responsibilities with leadership duties to support team growth and deliver high-quality product experiences. Expect to:

• Build and manage a talented team of designers and leaders that consistently delivers on projects and is well-balanced across a range of design skill sets.
• Be responsible for overall team performance and health, resource allocation, and project prioritization.
• Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into useful and valuable products incorporating expertise in UX design, 3D real-time experience design, and workflow design.
• Cultivate a healthy design process for the team, and be a key contributor to your organization's product strategy, driving business outcomes through design.
• Effectively communicate your team's product goals (both within the team and outside the team), and connect related projects across the company so that problems or joint decisions can be resolved quickly.
• Proactively solicit and provide feedback from designers and a broader product team in order to continually raise our bar for quality.
• Stay on top of industry trends and emerging technologies, including advancements in Artificial Intelligence, 3D real-time tools, shopping and configurator products.

About YouYou’re a product-minded design leader who thrives on solving complex problems and crafting user-centered solutions. You’re passionate about improving how people design and live in their homes—and energized by the opportunity to make a meaningful dent in an outdated industry.

You have

• 7+ years of hands-on design experience
• 2+ years as a people manager: building, managing, and leading design teams
• A strong portfolio that showcases your process, thinking, and ability to simplify complexity
• Experience with intuitive design (configurator or otherwise)
• A systems-thinking mindset with the ability to balance detail with big-picture product vision
• Innovative design systems thinking with a bias towards craft and excellence
• Deep user empathy and a clear, confident communication style with your direct reports and crossfunctional teams.
• Comfort articulating trade-offs, managing ambiguity, and driving toward clarity in fast-moving environments

A major plus if you also bring

• A background or passion in architecture, construction tech, or home design
• Familiarity with 3D tools or environments (e.g., Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, Unity, Three.js)
• Both B2B and consumer design experience

Working at HigharcHigharc has been remote first since our founding in 2018. We offer flexible hours so you can do your best work without missing out on life. Higharc offers competitive salaries with significant equity, in a fast-growing, well-funded company.

Personal healthiness is an important value for us- we provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with flexible PTO, and meaningful maternity/paternity leave to all U.S based employees that are full-time. You'll also have access to other big-company benefits such like short and long-term disability plans and a 401K. Haven't worked remotely before? We provide a stipend to create the ideal home office.