Head of Design

About the role

ActAI builds proactive applications for everyday communication, coordination and collaboration, aiming to bring intelligence to users' lives with minimal prompting. Its first product is an agent-first mobile communication app. The Head of Design owns product design quality across the group's consumer products and brands, in a hands-on design leadership role with direct involvement in key products and user experiences.

Key responsibilities

• Set the design direction and quality bar across group products.
• Work directly on or review critical user journeys, product concepts and interfaces.
• Turn complex financial and AI workflows into simple consumer experiences.
• Set standards across product design, interaction, visual design and design systems.
• Review shipped products and identify usability and design problems.
• Work with product and engineering from early concepts through production.
• Recruit and assess senior product, UI and brand designers.

Required profile

• Strong portfolio of shipped consumer technology products with meaningful usage; a portfolio submission is mandatory.
• Deep product and interaction design capability, not primarily people management.
• Experience working closely with product and engineering on shipped products.
• Hands-on design style, able to create, critique and materially improve design work.

Required skills

• Strong visual judgement and attention to interface details.
• Ability to prototype and communicate product interactions directly.