At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Union Square, New York City
About the role
- Mirage is seeking its first experienced design leader to manage and grow the Product Design team.
- The role involves setting the vision and quality bar for design, mentoring a high-performing team, and partnering with executive, product, and engineering leadership to shape product strategy.
- The leader will define new interaction paradigms for AI-native video creation and build the systems and culture necessary for the design function.
Responsibilities
- Set the vision, strategy, and quality bar for Product Design across Mirage.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of product designers.
- Build a world-class design team, shaping the structure, capabilities, and culture of the function.
- Partner closely with executive, Product, and Engineering teams to shape product vision, strategy, and long-term roadmap.
- Guide the design of complex, high-impact product initiatives from early exploration through launch.
- Establish a strong culture of critique, craft, and user-centered decision-making.
- Create processes that help the team move quickly without sacrificing quality.
- Translate emerging AI capabilities into intuitive interaction models and product experiences across text, image, audio, motion, and video.
Requirements
- Track record of building, managing, and developing high-performing product design teams.
- Significant experience designing and shipping complex consumer products, ideally across mobile and desktop.
- Strong product judgment and exceptional design taste.
- Ability to move fluidly between high-level strategy, people leadership, and detailed product critique.
- Comfortable creating clarity in ambiguous environments and making decisions with imperfect information.
- Clear communicator capable of explaining design rationale and aligning teams.
- Portfolio demonstrating strong systems thinking, high-quality craft, and meaningful impact on shipped products.
- Must be in-person at the NYC HQ in Union Square.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience designing AI-native products, creative tools, or products involving video, audio, image, or motion.
- Experience helping build or scale a design function at an early-stage or rapidly growing company.
- Strong point of view on how people will interact and create with AI.
- Grounded, collaborative approach.
- Experience as a startup founder or early design leader.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- 401K with employer match
- Commuter Benefits
- Catered lunch multiple days per week
- Dinner stipend for late work
- Grubhub subscription
- Health & Wellness Perks
- Multiple team offsites per year
- Monthly team events
- Generous PTO policy
Workplace
- Role is strictly in-person at the NYC HQ located in Union Square.
Skills
- Product Design
- Systems Thinking
- Product Strategy
