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Fuel50

Product Design Lead

Fuel50

. Lead, manage and coach product designers, supporting their growth and development .

Posted 10/9/2026full-timeNew ZealandSenior💰 NZ$140,000 - NZ$180,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in product design, particularly in SaaS environments, with a strong focus on leading design teams, creating human-centered AI experiences, and ensuring compliance with accessibility standards. Proven ability to influence stakeholders and deliver high-quality design solutions through effective collaboration with Product and Engineering teams.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Product Design LeadershipHuman-Centered AI Experience DesignPrototyping and Design NarrativeAccessibility Standards ComplianceCross-Functional Collaboration

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Hard Skills
Product DesignInteraction DesignVisual DesignPrototypingResearchHTMLCSSJavaScriptDesign System DevelopmentAccessibility Testing
Soft Skills
CoachingCommunicationInfluencingJudgmentTeam Building
Tools & Technologies
AI Coding ToolsClaude CodeCodexCursorDesign-to-Code Practices
Industry Keywords
SaaSTechnology EnvironmentB2B ProductWCAG ComplianceDesign Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead, manage and coach product designers, supporting their growth and development
  • Set and communicate product design vision across skills intelligence, talent mobility and AI-powered experiences
  • Spot opportunities, form a point of view and prototype ideas
  • Bring a strong point of view to senior conversations and influence business decisions
  • Partner with Product and Engineering from discovery through delivery
  • Balance customer value, design quality, technical reality and pace
  • Design human-centred AI experiences with trust, explainability, user control and clear handoffs
  • Design agent and assistant experiences across the Fuel50 platform, Microsoft Teams and Copilot
  • Grow design engineering capability and build and ship working prototypes or code
  • Evolve the design system, accessibility standards including WCAG compliance, and design-to-code practices
  • Shape design team structure, capability, hiring, planning and ways of working

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experience in product design in a SaaS or technology environment; 7 or more years suggested
  • At least 2 years leading, managing or coaching designers
  • Track record of building healthy, high-performing teams
  • Strong product design craft across discovery, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, research and shipped digital products
  • Experience designing complex, connected systems and journeys for multiple personas, ideally in an enterprise or B2B product
  • Ability to think big and set a compelling vision while remaining pragmatic about what can be learned and shipped next
  • Ability to originate ideas and direction and communicate them clearly through stories, prototypes and design narrative
  • Confidence working with experienced senior stakeholders and influencing through clarity, judgement and strong communication
  • Experience working closely with Product and Engineering as a genuine cross-functional trio
  • Technical fluency and willingness to get into code
  • Comfortable building working prototypes using HTML, CSS, JavaScript or similar tools
  • Contributed code shipped to production, such as front-end changes or design system components submitted through pull requests
  • Hands-on experience using AI coding and design tools such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor
  • Working knowledge of accessibility and WCAG; designed to WCAG standards, tested for it, and built accessibility into a design system and review process
  • Interest in design systems and data-informed decision-making
  • Portfolio link or attachment required
  • Must hold the relevant right to work in New Zealand, such as citizenship or a work visa, at the time of application

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • A day off on your birthday and your Fuel50 anniversary
  • A “ReFuel Day” once a quarter to relax and refuel
  • Remote work and flexible work times
  • Progressive parental leave policy
  • Comprehensive fully subsidised health insurance with Southern Cross
  • Co-working space in the BHive in Takapuna
  • Travel costs paid for team members outside Auckland who are needed on-site
  • Continuous and respectful feedback and recognition
  • #SuperheroAwards at quarterly planning meetings
  • Spontaneous recognition and shout-outs across the business