Head of Product Design — Equity Only LA

ZOVU is a fully remote, equity-only position with no salary.

About the role

We're looking for the person who will own ZOVU's product design: the workflows, the interface and the day-to-day design work. You'll work directly with the founder and developers, create designs yourself, and help other designers deliver consistent work. You'll own design execution and standards within agreed product priorities.

About ZOVU

Restaurant teams often work across disconnected tools for orders, bookings and everyday operations. ZOVU is building one operating system that brings these workflows together. Our aim is to make complex restaurant software feel calm, clear and easy to use. Your job is to turn that direction into practical screens and experiences for restaurant owners, staff and their guests.

Responsibilities

• The product experience. Turn complex requirements into clear workflows, from the main task to permissions, errors and exceptions.
• The interface. Personally create wireframes, prototypes and polished screens. Develop ZOVU's visual language through careful typography, spacing, hierarchy and consistent interactions.
• The design system. Build and maintain reusable Figma components and patterns so the team can produce consistent work efficiently.
• The connection with users. Understand how restaurant teams work, test important assumptions and use feedback to improve the designs.
• The connection with development. Work through technical constraints with developers, explain design decisions and review the implemented result.
• Design leadership. Set clear standards, organise design priorities with the founder, review work and mentor designers and interns as the team develops. Help assess future design hires.

Requirements

• Substantial product design experience, typically five or more years, with examples of software you personally helped take through to release. Strong equivalent experience is welcome.
• A strong portfolio showing polished software UI, complete workflows and your personal contribution to each project. A portfolio is required.
• Confident working in Figma, including auto layout, components, variants and interactive prototypes.
• Ability to simplify operational interfaces while keeping information readable, controls accessible and important actions easy to find.
• Experience working closely with developers and ability to explain the decisions, constraints and lessons behind your work, including how user feedback or usability testing changed the designs.
• Experience guiding other designers through feedback, mentoring or ownership of a shared design direction.
• Ability to work independently, communicate clearly in English and sustain an agreed commitment under an equity-only arrangement.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience designing B2B SaaS, POS, payments, inventory or other operational software.
• Experience working in an early-stage team and helping establish its design approach.
• Understanding of restaurant operations through work or direct hospitality experience.

Benefits

• Responsibility for shaping ZOVU's product experience and design standards.
• Direct work with the founder and influence over design decisions and priorities.
• A fully remote working arrangement, with weekly commitment agreed together.
• Equity compensation only.

Pay

Equity compensation only. There is no salary; the allocation, vesting schedule, weekly commitment and other terms will be agreed in writing before work starts.

Schedule

Fully remote with weekly commitment agreed together.

Current priorities

The initial priorities are practical: understand the existing designs, identify the most important workflow and consistency issues, improve priority screens and strengthen the reusable components behind them. Scope and timing will reflect the agreed commitment and product priorities.