Head of Design, Product & Brand

About the Role

We are hiring a Head of Design, Product & Brand to become Vida’s first dedicated design leader. This is a senior, hands-on design leadership role. You will set the design direction for Vida, build the foundation for our product and brand systems, and personally own a meaningful amount of execution across product design, website, brand, and go-to-market materials.

Vida Overview

VidaVida is a publicly traded, early-stage AI company building an AI Agent Operating System that enables businesses and partners to create, deliver, and manage AI workforces. Our platform powers AI agents that communicate, automate workflows, connect with business software, and help teams operate more efficiently across channels and systems. We are at an important stage of product and company expansion.

Responsibilities

• Lead UI and UX design for Vida’s core platform, including agent creation, configuration, testing, monitoring, analytics, reseller workflows, administrative experiences, and customer-facing tools.
• Turn ambiguous product problems into clear, usable, high-quality interfaces.
• Design workflows for complex AI agent use cases, including voice agents, computer-use agents, integrations, logs, tasks, inboxes, and reseller/customer management.
• Create wireframes, prototypes, user flows, interaction models, and production-ready designs.
• Improve information architecture so users can understand and manage increasingly powerful AI systems.
• Establish and maintain a scalable product design system in collaboration with engineering.
• Use customer feedback, product usage, and business context to improve usability and reduce friction.
• Partner closely with product and engineering to ship high-quality product experiences quickly.
• Own the evolution of Vida’s visual identity across web, product marketing, sales, and customer-facing materials.
• Create templates and creative systems that make Vida’s external communication feel consistent, polished, and differentiated.
• Help define how Vida shows up in the market as a trusted AI agent platform.
• Define the design bar for Vida across product, brand, and go-to-market surfaces.
• Create lightweight design processes that help the team move quickly without sacrificing quality.
• Bring strong taste, customer empathy, and systems thinking to product and company decisions.
• Help Vida build the foundation for a future design function.
• Over time, help determine when and how to grow the design team.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in product design, UX/UI design, brand design, or a related design role.
• Strong portfolio showing excellent product design craft, especially for complex workflows or B2B software.
• Strong visual design skills, including layout, typography, hierarchy, interaction design, and brand expression.
• Experience designing complex B2B, SaaS, workflow, automation, platform, developer, or enterprise products.
• Ability to simplify complex systems without oversimplifying the underlying power.
• Comfort moving between product design and brand/marketing design.
• Experience designing websites, landing pages, sales collateral, or marketing materials.
• Ability to work from ambiguity and turn early ideas into clear design directions.
• Comfort working directly with founders, product, engineering, sales, and customer-facing teams.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain design decisions clearly.
• High ownership, strong taste, and a bias toward shipping.
• Excitement about being hands-on in an early-stage company environment.

Qualifications

• Experience designing AI, automation, agent, developer tool, customer support, telephony, CRM, or workflow products.
• Experience designing for reseller, multi-tenant, marketplace, or partner platforms.
• Experience building or maintaining a design system.
• Experience creating investor, board, or executive-level presentation materials.
• Motion, illustration, video, or 3D design skills.
• Experience with Webflow, Framer, Next.js, or close collaboration with frontend engineers.

What We’re Looking For

Senior designer who wants broad ownership, high leverage, and the opportunity to define how businesses discover, understand, trust, and operate AI agents at scale.

Why Join Vida

Be the first dedicated design leader at a company building foundational software for AI agents. Work on one of the most important shifts in software: AI agents that can communicate, operate, and complete real business work. Own design across both product and brand at a company where design will directly shape the category. Partner closely with the CPO, founders, engineering, sales, and leadership on product strategy, positioning, and customer experience. Design for real businesses, real workflows, and real operational impact. Help shape how the AI workforce category is understood by customers.

Compensation

The expected base salary range for this role is $160,000–$180,000, depending on experience, location, portfolio strength, and scope fit. In addition to salary, this role includes meaningful equity participation and standard company benefits. We view this as a senior, high-leverage role with broad company impact.

How to Apply

Please send your resume, portfolio, and a brief note about why you are interested in Vida.