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Lead Product Designer
About the role
• Lead a design team through complex product challenges and focused execution
• Contribute hands-on to interaction, visual design, prototyping, and product design
• Set and maintain a high bar for design quality and product thinking
• Mentor and develop designers through collaboration, feedback, critique, and problem solving
• Establish patterns, systems, and practices that improve quality and consistency
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to balance user needs, business goals, technical constraints, and delivery realities
• Lead client design conversations and manage key stakeholder relationships
• Clarify ambiguous business and product problems and create strategic direction
• Present recommendations, explain design decisions, navigate disagreement, and build stakeholder alignment
• Connect design decisions to broader product and business outcomes
• Strengthen design operations across client accounts and the wider engagement
• Collaborate with DNA.inc colleagues across design, product, and engineering
• Share patterns, lessons, and approaches across DNA.inc’s design practice
• Extensive track record designing and shipping complex digital products across web and mobile
• Strong hands-on visual, interaction, and product design craft
• Experience leading a design team while remaining actively involved in the work
• Evidence of raising the quality and effectiveness of other designers through leadership and craft
• Experience independently leading client or senior stakeholder relationships in complex organizations
• Confidence navigating disagreement, ambiguity, competing priorities, and organizational politics
• Ability to frame unclear problems, create strategic direction, and bring stakeholders along
• Strong product development instincts and experience working closely with Product and Engineering through build, launch, and iteration
• Judgment to know when to step into detail, give direction, or let others lead
• Professional fluency in Spanish
• Clear, concise, and empathetic written and verbal communication in English
• Eligibility to work in the European Union without sponsorship or restrictions
• Experience with motion, 3D design, or products beyond web and mobile is a plus
• Fair compensation, aligned with your experience and regional standards
• Flexibility in working hours and location
• Opportunities to learn from and collaborate with accomplished engineers and designers
• Clear growth path, whether deepening craft or moving into leadership
• Periodic company offsites across Europe
• Support for home office setup, including hardware and software
• Professional development through mentorship, learning budgets, and conference participation
• Additional benefits such as pension, varying by country