Position Summary

The Lead Product Designer is the most senior design voice at ListoGlobal. This is a player-coach role: the person leads a small design team while remaining hands-on in the craft. The role exists to bring clarity, consistency, and quality to the experience users have across a complex Fintech and HRMS product - one that helps organizations pay a global workforce compliantly and on time. The Lead Product Designer owns design end-to-end: from understanding user problems through research, to defining interaction patterns, to ensuring what ships is excellent.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop two direct reports: a Lead Product Engineer and a Designer.
• Own end-to-end product design across the global payroll, compliance, and HRMS modules.
• Build and maintain the ListoGlobal design system in Figma.
• Lead user research, interviews, usability testing, journey mapping, and translate findings into design direction.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to define, prioritize, and deliver features with high design quality.
• Set and uphold design standards, interaction patterns, and accessibility practices across the product.
• Present work and rationale clearly to senior stakeholders including executive leadership.
• Own and evolve the ListoGlobal design system and component library, ensuring scalability, consistency, and adoption across products.
• Lead the end-to-end user experience design across web-based SaaS and enterprise product platforms, from concept through delivery.
• Define and execute the user research strategy, including planning, conducting, and synthesizing insights to inform product decisions.
• Establish and uphold a high design quality bar for all released product experiences, ensuring usability, consistency, and alignment with brand standards.
• Create and maintain design documentation, specifications, and developer handoff materials, partnering closely with Engineering to ensure accurate implementation.
• Build, maintain and promote relationships with team members, peers across disciplines, and all other company team members ensuring effective coordination of communications and services affecting clients.
• Attend webinars and training to stay up to date on best practices related to the company and department.
• Complete projects and other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Expert Figma proficiency, components, variables, prototyping, and design system management.
• Strong user research and synthesis skills.
• Clear communicator; able to articulate design rationale to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Self-directed and effective working fully remotely.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of training and experience
• Proven experience designing complex, data-dense enterprise or fintech interfaces.
• Proven experience leading a small design team while remaining hands-on in the work.

Required Licenses or Certifications

None

Physical, Mental, & Communication DemandsThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• Frequently required to sit; occasionally required to stand and walk.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Frequently required to talk and hear.
• Moderate concentration/intensity, which includes prolonged mental effort.
• Average memory, taking into consideration the amount and type of information.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

DisclaimerThis job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee filling this position. Employee will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by management. Management has the right to add to, revise, or delete information in this job description. Reasonable accommodation will be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

This position is eligible for the following benefits

• Health Insurance: Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement Plan: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: PTO, Holidays, Parental leave and Sick Leave provided as required by applicable state law
• Other Benefits: Life insurance, short term disability, long term Client ability, employee assistance program (EAP), flexible spending account (FSA), health savings account (HSA), Identity theft protection, critical illness, accident, cancer, hospital protection, legal and pet insurance.