Head of Product & Design

Design leadership, hands-on product design, AI-powered design, design & product collaboration, coaching & mentorship
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Status
Actively looking
Not looking
Not looking
Open to new opportunities
Location
Melbourne
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Open to relocating
Commitment
Full-time, Join as a startup co-founder
Availability from time of offer
In 1 month or less
Years of experience
Less than one year
Top 3 languages or frameworks
HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Also knows
Preferred work environment
Hybrid, Fully remote, In the office
Strengths
I am a really holistic design and product thinker. I am best at being able to zoom out and find improvements across the entire customer journey – not just in product, but understanding how it maps together with sales, customer support, and marketing. I love being in generalist roles with a small team, so I can get really deep into running the digital experience, but also supporting in other functions that need to work with product. Anywhere that wants to build a design team from scratch, wants to really uplift the design of their product, or wants to have product & design more unified would be the best for me.
Interested in working involving
Looking for a design leadership/early designer role, ideally at a startup or scaleup! (eg. Head of Design, Principal Designer, Founding Designer) I love an early-stage company that needs someone with design skills + generalist skills to scale a business. Open to most industries but anything healthcare/science/clean energy would be the most exciting.
Not interested in work involving

No gambling or mining please.

Other information
Able to work in Australia without visa sponsorship
Requires visa sponsorship to work in Australia

Pay expectations

Full-time
$
200000
per year
Casual / Contract
$
200
per hour
Pay is negotiable in exchange for equity
Pay is negotiable in exchange for equity
Pay is not negotiable in exchange for equity
Open to equity only roles
Not open to equity only roles

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Work experience

Proudest professional achievement
Most recently, I was working on reimagining our product to be side-by-side with an AI agent. It also meant a new brand + design system to uplift the entire product. I got to work on tone of voice guidelines, evals, and conversational guidelines, as well as establishing new design patterns to ensure the chat felt integrated and purposeful. With such a small team, we are working through a staged closed beta rollout, where I get to speak to our users, monitor conversations and session recordings, and ship improvements within the week. I've also been able to get my hands on the codebase directly to make frontend changes and build better prototypes for engineering.
Head of Product & Design
Global investment platform • Jan 2023 – present

Managed the PM and Design teams, scaled the business from 25 customers to over 250, led the product expansion to a new overseas market, managed HR for ~2 years, led the brand design, collaborated with all departments to align on product strategy

Experience Design Manager & Head of Content
Digital consultancy • 2021-22

Spent one year placed at major Australian bank to deliver two overhauls of their two highest-converting online applications, managed and hired designers, spun up the Content team from scratch, worked with sales to pitch for new business, collaborated with operations for bench management

Senior Product Designer
Cloud-based technology education platform • 2019-21

Led the design system for the native mobile app, uplifted all assessments in the student experience as well as creating a new B2B assessment for sales, worked on core student experience features, integrated with an acquired company

User Experience Lead
Global education technology company • 2017-19

Ground-up redesign of the core student learning experience, led the design for all schools products, went from founding designer to manager of the design team, coached and mentored other departments on design thinking

Marketing Assistant / UX/UI Designer
Digital analytics and measurement platform • 2015-17

Originally started as the sole marketing team member – managed press releases, emails, graphic design, and also data processing. Moved into a design role to completely reimagine the platform experience as the sole designer.

Education

Bachelor of Business (Marketing) from RMIT, graduated 2016 User Experience Design cert from General Assembly, 2017
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