Lead Product Designer

Responsibilities

• Drive the design vision: Lead and execute the design strategy for major product initiatives, setting a new standard for design and user experience at Cortex. You are relentless about crafting a delightful, industry-leading experience.
• Elevate product quality and UX flow: Proactively identify and resolve complex user experience issues, focusing on streamlining core workflows and improving overall product usability and polish.
• Partner closely with engineering to shape scalable, thoughtful product experiences: Work in tight collaboration with engineers to define solutions, make tradeoffs, and ensure what we build is both usable and technically sound.
• Operate effectively in ambiguity: Take loosely defined problems, bring structure, and drive them through to clear, actionable solutions.
• Strategic Prototyping and Testing: Design, plan, and execute high-fidelity prototypes and user testing to validate concepts and inform design direction across the product management and engineering teams.
• End-to-End Feature Delivery: Own the design process from concept development, through wireframing, high-fidelity mockups, and final handoff. Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to ensure features meet a high bar for user experience.
• Maintain exceptional craft: Maintain an unwavering attention to detail to ensure product consistency, completeness, and a professional, polished user experience.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of experience as a Product Designer working on complex B2B or enterprise SaaS products. Experience with developer tools is a plus. Startup experience is highly desirable.
• Proven experience leading end-to-end design projects with significant business impact.
• Expert proficiency with Figma, prototyping tools, and user research methodologies