Product Design Lead

About Collective: Collective is on a mission to redefine the way businesses-of-one work. Our technology and team of trusted advisors help members achieve financial independence by taking care of everything from business incorporation to accounting, bookkeeping, tax services, and access to a thriving community, all in one integrated platform. We believe in empowering self-employed people to enjoy the same tax savings that big companies get, so they can focus on their passion, not paperwork. Featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Yahoo, Bloomberg, Financial Times, TechCrunch, and more. We are backed by General Catalyst, Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary), QED Investors, Google’s Gradient Ventures, Expa, and other investors who have financed iconic companies like YouTube, Substack, Twitch, Box, Hims, Instacart, and Lyft. About the role: We’re looking for a full-stack IC Product Design Lead to join our Design team. A ground-floor opportunity in a design-driven company. Join a hyper-collaborative design team and get autonomy, ownership, and significant impact across the entire product. You will evolve our design process, own entire projects, and contribute to the development of a diverse team that champions our users’ voices and ships incredible experiences every day. What you'll do: - Deeply understand our customers’ needs, business objectives, and state of the industry to imagine & bring to life paradigm-changing experiences. - Establish a high bar for visual polish and intuitive interaction patterns. - Clearly define customer and business problems. Explore broad-to-narrow solutions with thoughtful designs. - Pioneer the integration of AI tools and generative design techniques into our core design workflows to accelerate ideation, increase output efficiency, and unlock entirely new product experiences. - Ideate, design, launch and improve products to help advance Collective’s mission. - Work with a cross functional product development team (product managers,