Head of Product Design

Our client is building a finance-first, all-in-one operating system for a highly complex and mission-critical industry in Latin America. Their platform unifies payments, billing, collections, core workflows, and operational processes into a single, scalable system used daily by thousands of organizations and families across the region.

They are now looking for a Head of Product Design to build, lead, and professionalize Design as a true system-level discipline across a multi-product ecosystem.

This is a foundational leadership role with high visibility and real ownership.

About the role

As Head of Product Design, you will be responsible for elevating design from execution to strategy — shaping how products are conceived, built, scaled, and adopted.

This role goes far beyond UI.

You will:

Lead design across end-to-end systems, not isolated screens

Connect customer experience with operational reality and automation

Build and own a production-grade design system (not just in Figma, but in code)

Partner deeply with Product, Engineering, AI/Data, and GTM teams

Be co-accountable for adoption, usability, and real-world outcomes

Reporting directly to the Chief Product & Technology Officer, youll play a key role in defining the long-term platform vision and how design enables scale, trust, and AI-driven innovation.

What youll lead

Build and scale the Design function, principles, and operating model

Establish strong discovery, critique, and validation practices

Design for complex workflows, internal tools, and admin-heavy systems

Create and maintain a shared, scalable design system across products

Collaborate directly in the codebase with engineers (React-based stack)

Unify experiences across historically separate platforms

Coach, mentor, and grow a high-performing design team

Partner on AI-enabled, data-driven, and automation-focused experiences

What were looking for

8+ years of experience in product design, with 3+ years in leadership roles

Proven experience building or rebuilding a design function from scratch

Strong background in design systems and scalable UX architecture

Hands-on experience working closely with Product and Engineering teams

Comfort contributing to design systems in code, not only design tools

Ability to influence, lead change, and operate in ambiguity

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Fluent Spanish; English is a strong plus

Nice to have:

Experience in fintech, edtech, SaaS platforms with complex workflows, post-acquisition environments, or AI-powered products.

Why join them

Build and lead Design at a critical inflection point

Shape a platform with real impact on thousands of users across LATAM

Drive unification across multiple products and systems

Partner directly with executive leadership on strategy and scale

High autonomy, real ownership, and long-term impact

Remote-first culture with strong growth trajectory

Originally posted on Himalayas