Lead Product Designer
Kalepa
New York, United States Posted October 22, 2026
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Salary Range
$190,000 - $245,000
Job Description
Join our team as a Lead Product Designer, where you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of our platform. In this role, you'll tackle complex design challenges, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and raise the bar for design quality. You'll be responsible for defining product direction, designing data-dense workflows, and establishing scalable patterns for growth. This position requires strong visual design skills, excellent communication and collaboration abilities, and a passion for solving ambiguous problems.
- Lead design for complex, cross-cutting problems, from discovery and research through delivery and iteration.
- Collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to bring polish, clarity, and structure to complex workflows.
- Raise the design bar across the team through critique, mentorship, and shared standards, while establishing scalable patterns for growth.
- Systems thinking, with experience shaping and contributing to design systems
- Curious and adaptable—you enjoy solving ambiguous problems and growing your skills in the process
- Strong visual design skills and attention to detail—particularly in information hierarchy, interaction, and layout
- A strong portfolio showcasing your ability to simplify complexity, design thoughtful UIs, and apply clear interaction patterns
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills—you’re proactive, responsive, and eager to get feedback
- 7+ years of experience designing digital products for B2B, data-rich, or productivity tool companies
- Experience designing AI-driven tools
- Experience working in a rapidly scaling, ownership-mentality startup environment
- Experience taking an existing platform and helping to generalize and scale the user experience to support new and expanding workflows
- Experience working with MUI (Material UI) or similar design systems
- InsurTech, FinTech, or other highly-regulated industry experience
- A technical background or interest in how things are built
Required Skills
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