About The Role

We’re looking for a Lead UX Designer who raises the quality bar across the Design function — not just in their own work. This is a hands-on individual contributor role: you map business objectives to design outcomes, set a clear standard, and bring the team along with you.

You’ll drive the visual language across the AppSignal portfolio, back your decisions with research, and use AI tooling to increase your own and the team’s output velocity. This role blends hands-on craft, design systems, cross-team collaboration, and AI-enabled workflows.

We’re looking for somebody within two hours of the Central European Time (CET) timezone for this role.

What You'll Do

Produce shareable, testable artifacts that unblock front-end development. See them through to completion — the last 10% matters.
Own the research behind your design decisions. Pull in the UX researcher where relevant, and use usability sessions, telemetry (PostHog), and competitive benchmarking to justify your rationale.
Use AppSignal regularly as a developer would. Ground your decisions in how the product is actually used.
Drive the visual language and interaction patterns across the AppSignal product portfolio. Document your vision — don't just talk about it.
Lead cross-team discussions to concrete decisions. Stakeholders should leave aligned, not with more open questions.
Lead the Design System effort to reduce debt and improve cross-team collaboration. Ground it in consistent, first-principles design decisions that the whole team can build on.
Document your standards and share AI workflows so the team can learn from them.
Use AI across ideation, prototyping, research synthesis, and Design System work. Experiment with new tools and share what works.
Take an AI-first approach to specifying design: author design.md files and reusable skills that scale the design language across the team without you being in every conversation.

What You Bring

Technical curiosity. You read the docs, use developer tools, and stay genuinely interested in how the product works — not just how it looks.
Great collaboration. You work well across design, engineering, and product. You make the people around you better and bring them along with you.
Openness to AI. You experiment, share what works, and help the team move faster. You don’t wait for the tools to be perfect.
Strong design opinions, lightly held. You know what good looks like and you’ll advocate for it — but you listen, adapt, and leave room for better ideas.

What We're Looking For

Experience

5–8+ years of UX/Product Design experience, or equivalent depth of impact
Proven track record shipping end-to-end design work in complex digital products
Experience in startups or small companies — high autonomy, high ambiguity
Strong portfolio demonstrating both systems thinking and hands-on execution
Experience as a Lead/Principle Designer and willingness to mentor others

Design skills

Strong hands-on craft: interaction design, information architecture, visual hierarchy
Experience building and maintaining design systems
Solid UX writing and content design sensibilities
Working knowledge of accessibility and inclusive design

AI & modern tooling

Practical experience using AI in design workflows — research, ideation, prototyping, or content
Comfortable experimenting with emerging tools and sharing what you find

Bonus points

Experience designing developer tools, monitoring, or observability products
Familiarity with front-end development
Background in B2B or SaaS products
Experience setting up design ops in small teams

Why Join Us

High-impact role with real ownership
Direct influence on product direction across the AppSignal portfolio
Opportunity to shape how AI is responsibly integrated into user experiences
Small team, fast feedback loops, and meaningful autonomy
Competitive compensation and growth potential

What We Offer

Competitive salary adjusted to your location and experience
Employee stock option program
Unlimited PTO with a culture that actually uses it
Personal development budget for books, courses, equipment or conferences
Remote-first: no commute, no mandatory office. Co-working support available if useful.
Flexible contract setup based on your location: employment, EOR, or long-term contractor

Who We Are

We're a team of 30+ curious, low-ego people spread across seven countries. We care about the work we do and the customers we serve. We move fast, hold each other accountable, and treat the engineering craft seriously.

We welcome candidates of all backgrounds, genders, orientations, ethnicities, ages, and abilities. If you want to do your best work somewhere that notices it, you'll feel at home here.

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Do you want to join our team as our new Lead UX Designer (AI Focus)? Then we'd love to hear about you!

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