Head of Design

Started at Stanford by Stanford and Wharton/Google alums, FounderNest is an AI-native company that helps corporations around the world improve and streamline their market intelligence processes, including but not limited to: # Our core technology is built on real-time analytics and Generative AI running on private and public company data. We fuel our Natural Language Processing technology with +50M companies and +1.2B aggregated data points, allowing us to be 3x-5x better than alternatives. Leadership & Management As the leader of the Design team, you will work alongside our Co-Founder & COO / CPO, formerly Product at Google, and the whole product team. You will also have the opportunity to manage and grow a close-knit Design Team. Own the usability risk in our product development process, ensuring every feature is intuitive and delightful. Outcome-Driven Design Focus design work on impact, not just output—measured by adoption, usability, and contribution to our North Star Metric . Translate user problems into design solutions that accelerate discovery, adoption, and customer success. Excellence in English Communication Possess a high level of spoken and written English. Be able to independently run demanding discovery, shadowing, and user interviews with senior corporate stakeholders—capturing nuance, context, and emotion without supervision. Translate complex user insights into crisp documentation and narratives that the broader team can act on immediately. Leverage AI to conduct rapid prototyping, experimentation, and lean slicing to validate ideas fast (Dual-Track Agile: Innovation & Differentiation Stay ahead of design trends in AI-enabled workflows, personalization, and decision-making tools. Work as an integral part of the Product Trio (Product Manager + Designer + Engineering Lead), ensuring alignment on outcomes, priorities, and trade-offs. Provide clear, high-quality design artifacts that accelerate engineering and product execution. Design not just features, but scalable workflows, reusable design systems, and seamless user journeys. Balance short-term delivery with long-term vision for an outstanding product experience fully integrated into customer workflows You have 5+ years of experience in Product Design at product-driven, fast-paced tech startups . You have a great product sense, and you use it along with your design expertise to add value to our users. You have experience doing product discovery and don’t need to be convinced of the importance of doing continuous discovery with our users as the core component of our design discovery efforts. You have a genuine passion for technology and the AI revolution , constantly exploring new tools that can elevate the product and streamline day-to-day workflows. Professional proficiency in English is a Must . Spanish is a plus. Experience as a Product Designer for SaaS B2B companies. Experience in the corporate innovation industry. You embrace balance at work: you know when to go the extra mile , and when to slow down . Customer Excellence : Our users have to experience excellence in all we do. We hire people and technology smarter than us. Innovation : To lead through constant innovation that does not compromise simplicity. To not hesitate to go the extra mile when required and without waiting for someone to tell you. We do not discriminate, neither positively nor negatively, in hiring or in any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. To go the extra mile with focus and passion while ensuring balance is maintained, fostering sustainable long-term excellence. ~ Heads of Innovation, Heads of Ventures, Heads of Corporate Development). You will have a full-time contract (i.e. no freelance work). Unfortunately, we cannot sponsor work visas at this time . ~ We’d love it if you were based in Madrid so that you can spend time with our team there in a hybrid mode . That being said, we are also open to stellar fully remote candidates . After you apply, we will review your submission and decide whether we invite you to a quick intro call with Miguel, our Co-Founder & COO / CPO and Hiring Manager for this role. If there is a fit, we will then invite you to start a swift multi-step interview process that we promise will be exciting — you will get to meet some of the leaders at the company you will get to work with, and you will get a great flavor of what working at FounderNest looks like. #