Head of Product Design

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About the company

Plaud Inc. is a hardware and software company creating AI-powered voice recorders for note-taking, serving over 1,500,000 users globally.

Why join us

Salary: $315K/yr - $430K/yr

Responsibilities

• Define the global product experience standard and visual language; build and maintain the cross-platform Design System (App/Web/Desktop)
• Design and implement AI-native interaction paradigms (Agents, intent-based workflows, multi-turn dialogues)
• Lead information architecture and core interaction frameworks, delivering high-quality, high-fidelity design specifications
• Serve as the design quality gatekeeper, reviewing and elevating deliverables from the China-based design team to ensure international SOTA standards
• Establish effective cross-cultural and asynchronous collaboration processes, enabling scalable and consistent design execution across global teams

Requirements

• 8–12+ years of UI/UX design experience with real product launches in North America or Europe
• Demonstrated ability to build Design Systems, visual languages, and multi-platform interaction frameworks
• Strong experience in AI product interaction (e.g., agents, conversational UX, intent modeling, AI workflows)
• Deep product thinking and the ability to articulate design rationale, problem framing, and end-to-end decision-making
• Excellent communication skills; fluent in English; proven cross-cultural collaboration experience in distributed teams