Common Room is Hiring Head Design

Role: Head Design

Salary: Very Attractive + equity

Location: Remote

Job Type: Full-time

Why we need you

Design is core to how we build and differentiate. We’re looking for a Director of Design who can operate as a player-coach: someone eager to roll up their sleeves and ship high-quality work, while also guiding the design function as we scale our product and brand.

You’ll work closely with product, engineering, marketing, and go-to-market teams to shape elegant, intuitive experiences—both in our product and in how we tell our story. You’ll balance day-to-day design execution with long-term team leadership, helping define our design culture, processes, and standards from the ground up.

This is a rare opportunity to own design in a high-growth startup with clear product-market fit, category-defining potential, and a passionate user base. If you love working in the middle of product, brand, and business—and want to leave your fingerprints on something big—we want to meet you.

How You’ll Contribute

• Design Hands-On: Own and execute key design work across product and brand—especially in high-impact areas like UX patterns, dashboards, onboarding, and storytelling.
• Lead by Example: Set a high bar for craft, speed, and clarity. Model best practices in product and design ledt thinking, prototyping, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Grow the Team: Help recruit and mentor other designers. Shape a culture that prioritizes simplicity, customer empathy, and high-velocity learning.
• Persona Centric:Lead the charge in ensuring we build a deep understanding across the company of who are users are, what they care about, and jobs they need to get done.
• Bridge Product and Brand: Ensure a consistent design language across our product UI, website, marketing materials, and customer-facing assets.
• Own Design Systems: Evolve our existing design system and UI foundations to support faster iteration and cohesive user experiences.
• Advocate for the User: Leverage customer research, product usage data, and cross-functional input to drive design decisions.
• Partner Across Functions: Collaborate closely with PMs, engineers, marketers, and GTM leads to shape strategy and deliver impactful work.

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What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of experience in product and/or brand design, including time spent at high-growth B2B SaaS companies.
• A strong individual contributor portfolio that demonstrates clarity, craft, and usability across product and marketing experiences.
• Experience mentoring or managing other designers, even informally, with an interest in team building and coaching.
• A person with a strong growth oriented mindset.
• Comfortable toggling between strategic leadership and tactical execution.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills—especially in remote, async-friendly environments.
• Familiarity with data-rich or workflow-centric tools (bonus for PLG, RevOps, or GTM experience).
• Fluency in Figma and other modern design tools.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• You thrive in ambiguity and move fast with intention.
• You think in systems but never lose sight of details.
• You believe the best design starts with a real customer problem—not just a pixel-perfect mock.
• You’re energized by the duality of designing and leading.
• You care deeply about the full customer journey—from first touch to long-term adoption.
• You enjoy collaborating with cross-functional partners who challenge you to think bigger.
• You’re passionate about designing tools that make work feel more human, not less.

Our values:

• Be Customer-centric – We work backwards from the needs of our customers. The crisp articulation of customer value guides our decisions.
• Strive for Simplicity – We choose simplicity over complexity whenever possible. We seek to identify and understand the essential quality of what we are building.
• Make it Happen – We are quick to take the first step, and prioritize decisiveness over fear of making a mistake. We don’t confuse motion for movement and we measure ourselves on impact over actions.
• We’re In this Together – We measure personal success by the success of our customers and teammates. Relationships matter, and the strongest ones are built on the foundations of trust, enablement, and transparency.

Our benefits:

Our investment in caring for our employees and their families is a key part of our values and culture at Common Room:

• Competitive base compensation with meaningful equity ownership
• Health insurance including medical, dental, and vision, HSA and FSA
• We pay 100% of your employee premium and 50% of your premium for any dependents
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Paid Company Holidays
• Work from home policy including a laptop and support for your home office needs
• Monthly Remote Stipend
• 401(k) self contribution
• Paid Family Leave
• Opportunity to join a diverse, passionate, and fun team at a pivotal time in the company’s lifecycle

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