Lead Product Designer
- Salary
- €80,000 - €150,000 annually
- Level
- Lead
- Work type
- On-site · Vienna
- Visa
- Not offered
Open. First seen 4 November 2026.
About the role
About the Role
Lead product design for a growing AI communications software company serving businesses across Europe. This hands-on leadership role combines product design, brand ownership, and team direction, working closely with product and engineering to improve customer experiences across multiple product areas.
What You'll Do
- Own design across product, brand, and the design team while remaining hands-on in day-to-day work.
- Design product experiences, run customer interviews, and develop the brand.
- Partner with product and engineering on three product areas, supporting quick decisions and frequent feedback.
- Lead designers working across the website, brand, and product.
- Build customer understanding through regular conversations with small-business users.
- Set and maintain design standards and scale design systems across product areas.
- Use customer insights and product analytics to evaluate design decisions and iterate.
What We're Looking For
- At least five years of end-to-end product design experience, with ownership across multiple product areas.
- Strong hands-on skills in Figma, prototyping, and user interviews.
- Experience leading a design team, or clear readiness to take on team responsibility while staying hands-on.
- Experience building and scaling design systems, with ownership spanning brand, website, and product design.
- An analytics-driven product mindset and experience using modern AI tools such as Cursor, v0, or Claude to accelerate design work.
- Native-level German and professional English.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: €80,000 to €150,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in Vienna, Austria.
What this role asks for
Standard for design roles
Figma
Common in design postings at any company.
Compared with Clera's other open jobs.
The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 181 open in Engineering. 115 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
LLM (87 of 181), TypeScript (86 of 181), React (74 of 181), Python (70 of 181), Machine Learning (43 of 181), Supabase (37 of 181), PostgreSQL (35 of 181)
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- Founding Engineer, AI/ML posted Nov 4
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- Product Designer, Freelance / Fractional posted Nov 3
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- Product Engineer posted Nov 3
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- Founding Product & Brand Designer posted Nov 2
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- GTM Engineer posted Nov 2
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- Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Platform) posted Jun 3
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From the team and dates on Clera's own job board.
Posting history
Reposted 2 times since 28 September 2026: a posting for this role in Vienna was taken down and the role was posted again.
- 4 November 2026 – open (this posting)
- 27 October 2026 – closed 3 November 2026
- 11 October 2026 – closed 26 October 2026
- 28 September 2026 – closed 28 October 2026
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