Lead Designer

About The Role

As Lead Product Designer, you will shape the future of StyleSeat's product experience. You'll own the design vision and quality bar for a major domain of our platform, driving usability, consistency, and brand expression across both our Professional and Client experiences.

This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on design craft, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to bring ideas from insight to shipped experience. You'll help evolve our design systems, define high-quality standards, and apply AI tools to accelerate exploration and delivery without sacrificing polish.

You'll thrive here if you love owning a complex product area end to end, raising the quality bar, and shaping how design works across a fast-moving, highly collaborative team.

What You'll Own

• Craft & Standards – Own the quality bar for your product domain, defining and upholding design standards that improve usability, consistency, and accessibility. Simplify complex problems through strong interaction design, visual clarity, and thoughtful systems thinking.
• AI & Efficiency – Establish practical, scalable AI workflows that elevate collaboration between Design and Engineering. Use AI to accelerate exploration, prototyping, documentation, and delivery while maintaining a high standard of craft.
• Brand & Experience – Bring StyleSeat's brand to life throughout the product experience for both Professionals and Clients. Ensure every touchpoint is functional, modern, and expressive in ways that build trust, highlight value, and delight users.
• Customer & Strategy – Shape product strategy with Product and Engineering by grounding decisions in user insights, data, and clear business goals. Use research and experimentation to connect customer needs to measurable outcomes.
• Collaboration & Alignment – Build alignment across teams by communicating clearly, presenting work effectively, and using customer feedback to shape and defend design decisions. Foster momentum through strong cross-functional collaboration.
• Ownership & Influence – Take full ownership of a major product domain spanning both sides of the marketplace. Partner directly with the Head of Product on high-impact initiatives and influence decisions across Product, Engineering, and Marketing through thought leadership, excellent craft, and sound judgment on when to push for exceptional quality versus when to move fast with simple, effective solutions.
  
  

How You'll Work

• Daily collaboration with Product Managers and Engineering Leads across discovery, definition, and delivery.
• Hands-on design using Figma, AI tools, modern prototyping methods, and user research insights.
• Ownership of a large product domain with autonomy to shape direction, quality standards, and system improvements.
• Occasional mentorship of other designers through critique, feedback, and shared best practices.
  
  

Deliverables: First 6–12 Months

• Ship high-impact improvements across both Pro and Client experiences, contributing to engagement, retention, or conversion goals.
• Redesign a critical end to end flow that boosts usability and business performance, from insight to shipped product.
• Establish reusable AI enabled workflows that increase design and engineering efficiency.
• Strengthen the design system to drive consistency, accessibility, and faster delivery across teams.
• Define and uphold quality standards for your product domain, ensuring every shipped experience meets them.
• Partner with the Head of Product on at least one strategic initiative shaping StyleSeat's future customer experience vision.
  
  

Who You Are

Successful candidates can come from a variety of backgrounds, yet here are some of the critical experiences we're looking for:

• 7+ years of product design experience in SaaS or marketplace products.
• Applied experience using AI to speed up exploration, prototyping, or handoff.
• Excellent communicator who simplifies complexity and tells a compelling design story.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills with a track record of shipping elegant, user-centered solutions.
• Deep understanding of modern UX patterns and how to apply them pragmatically.
• Proven ability to define and uphold design standards across a complex product domain.
• Systems thinker who improves patterns, consistency, and accessibility at scale.
• Skilled at integrating brand into product design to elevate value and comprehension.
• Growth mindset with the ability to influence priorities across Product, Engineering, and Marketing.
  
  

Salary Range

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The career level we are targeting for this role has a base pay between $160,700 and $200,000. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. Base pay ranges are subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Who We Are

StyleSeat is the premier business platform for SMBs in the beauty and wellness industry to run and grow their business; and destination for consumers to discover, book and pay. To date, StyleSeat has powered more than 200 million appointments totaling over $12 billion in revenue for small businesses. StyleSeat is a platform and marketplace designed to support and promote the beauty and personal care community.

Today, StyleSeat connects consumers with top-rated beauty professionals in their area for a variety of services, including hair styling, barbering, massage, waxing, and nail care, among others. Our platform ensures that Pros maximize their schedules and earnings by minimizing gaps and cancellations, effectively attracting and retaining clientele.

StyleSeat Culture and Values

At StyleSeat, our team is committed to fostering a positive and inclusive work environment. We respect and value the unique perspectives, experiences, and skills of our team members and work to create opportunities for all to grow and succeed.

• Diversity - We celebrate and welcome diversity in backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe in the importance of creating an inclusive work environment where everyone can thrive.
• Curiosity - We are committed to fostering a culture of learning and growth. We ask questions, challenge assumptions, and explore new ideas.
• Community - We are committed to making a positive impact on each, even when win-win-win scenarios are not always clear or possible in every decision. We strive to find solutions that benefit the community as a whole and drive our shared success.
• Transparency - We are committed to open, honest, and clear communication. We hold ourselves accountable for maintaining the trust of our customers and team.
• Entrepreneurship - We are self-driven big-picture thinkers - we move fast and pivot when necessary to achieve our goals.
  
  

Applicant Note

StyleSeat is a fully remote, distributed workforce, however, we only have business entities established in the below list of states and, thus are unable to consider candidates who live in states not on this list for the time being. **Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

• Alabama
• Arizona
• California
• Colorado
• Florida
• Georgia
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Nebraska
• New Jersey
• New York
• Ohio
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Virginia
• Washington
  
  

Please note: We do not accept resumes from recruiters or third-party agencies. We are only considering direct applications from candidates.