Product Design Lead

About GenAI.Works

GenAI.Works is building the ecosystem for the next generation of AI builders, founders, and operators.

Our platform spans product discovery, education, community, and AI-native tools — including flagship experiences like:

• ToneUp — AI-powered content and engagement tooling
• Hackathon App — global competitions, submissions, judging, and community
• Pods — modular learning and collaboration experiences

We are entering a major product expansion phase and are looking for a Head of UI/UX to define the design strategy, user experience, and design systems foundation across our growing suite.

This is a rare opportunity to lead design at the frontier of AI-native product development.

About the role

This is a hands-on design leadership role at the intersection of beautiful, scalable UI systems, deep product thinking, AI-native experience design, and rapid prototyping.

You’ll own the end-to-end design vision while actively designing core workflows across our website and products. Partnering closely with the VP of Product and Product Managers (ToneUp, Hackathon App, Pods, and future launches), you’ll shape product strategy from discovery through launch.

This cross-functional role has direct influence over product direction, helping define our design North Star, build a scalable design system, and shape the UX of ToneUp, Hackathon, Pods, and future products as GenAI.Works becomes a category-defining AI platform.

Requirements

• 6+ years in product design (UI/UX) with a strong portfolio showcasing shipped products, systems thinking, and exceptional craft. Expertise in UX research, interaction design, visual design, typography, and building design systems at scale.
• Deep curiosity about AI-driven interaction models, with experience designing for uncertainty, trust, explainability, and user feedback loops. Excited by agent-based products and actively uses AI tools in daily workflows.
• Your design to test hypotheses, not just polish screens. Comfortable moving from ambiguity to prototype to iteration, with a bias toward action and rapid build-measure-learn cycles.
• Expert in Figma, strong in responsive design, understand frontend constraints, and apply accessibility and inclusive design best practices.

Responsibilities

• Own the UI/UX vision and design North Star for GenAI.Works. Translate company strategy into cohesive product experiences, set standards for usability and accessibility, and ensure design meaningfully shapes product direction, growth, and brand trust.
• Design intuitive, trustworthy AI-powered workflows. Explore and define best practices for copilots, agent-driven systems, multimodal interfaces, retrieval-based experiences, and human-in-the-loop interactions—establishing what “great AI UX” looks like across the platform.
• Lead research, journey mapping, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI across ToneUp, Hackathon App, Pods, and new experimental products. Simplify complex workflows into elegant experiences while balancing speed, craft, and business impact.
• Rapidly prototype and test ideas using Figma, Framer/Webflow, and AI tools. Run fast experiments to validate onboarding, feature adoption, retention, and engagement. Treat design as a continuous build–measure–learn loop.
• Build and evolve a scalable design system across web, product, and community touchpoints. Create reusable components and partner with engineering to ensure high-quality implementation.

• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering, advocate for user-centered thinking, and mentor future designers as the team grows.

   

Why Join Us

• Own the design direction of a fast-growing AI ecosystem
• Work on products used by builders, founders, and global communities
• High autonomy, high impact, meaningful ownership
• Shape the future of AI-native product experiences
• Build and lead the design function from the ground up