About the Role :

The Client Company is building a media super-app bringing together video, audio, radio, micro-drama, news and commerce on a single platform. We're hiring a Design Lead to own design, UI/UX and the design system ensuring a consistent, high-quality experience across every surface of the super app.

This is a foundational, individual-contributor design leadership role. You will define the visual and interaction language that scales across six content and commerce verticals, setting the design direction that engineering and product build against.

Key Responsibilities :

- Own end-to-end UI/UX design across the consumer app, admin portal and CMS, spanning video, audio, radio, micro-drama, news and commerce experiences

- Define and evolve the shared Design System and component library in close partnership with the Frontend Architect

- Set design standards, interaction patterns and visual guardrails used across all product surfaces

- Lead user research and usability testing to validate design decisions with real user data

- Partner with the Product Lead to translate product requirements into intuitive, high-quality user experiences

- Partner with the Frontend Architect to ensure design system components are technically feasible and performant

- Conduct design reviews for high-impact features and maintain the design quality bar across the team

- Evaluate and introduce new design tools and workflows that improve design velocity and consistency

- Own accessibility and localization standards as the platform scales across content verticals

Required Qualifications :

- 8 to 10 years of product design experience, including at least 2 to 3 years in a design leadership or principal design capacity

- Deep expertise in UI/UX design for consumer mobile and web products at scale

- Proven experience building or scaling a design system used across multiple products or surfaces

- Strong portfolio demonstrating design work across complex, multi-surface consumer products

- Hands-on proficiency with modern design tools (Figma or equivalent) and design-to-development handoff workflows

- Comfortable operating as a high-impact individual contributor, leading through design craft and influence

- Excellent communication skills able to articulate and evangelize design decisions to engineers, product and non-technical stakeholders alike

Preferred Qualifications :

- Experience designing for media, content or commerce super-app environments

- Prior experience at a high-growth startup building 0 to 1 products

- Experience designing for multiple content formats (video, audio, short-form content) within a single platform

- Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) and localization/internationalization design practices