Head of Design

Job Summary:

As a Head of Design, you will lead design across Radiant, spanning both the company brand and the product experience.

You’ll be responsible for how Radiant looks, feels, and communicates across our cloud platform, developer experience, website, brand, campaigns, events, and internal company touchpoints. You’ll work closely with product, engineering, marketing, commercial teams, and leadership to create a clear and consistent design language across the business.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can set direction, build systems, and raise the quality bar while still getting close to the work.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the design strategy and quality bar across the Radiant brand, product and company communications and assets.

Own product design across Radiant platform, including console, documentation and assets.

Work with the CMO to help shape and evolve Radiant’s visual identity, brand system, and creative direction.

Work with the design team to build and maintain a design system spanning product UI and broader company design.

Partner with product and engineering from discovery through launch to create simple, intuitive experiences for complex technical products.

Work with marketing and commercial teams across website, campaigns, events, presentations, launches, and sales materials.

Translate complex cloud and infrastructure concepts into clear visual narratives and user experiences.

Establish strong design processes across research, prototyping, testing, critique, and delivery.

Manage, hire and develop designers as the team grows, while working effectively with external agencies and partners where needed.

Ensure consistency and quality across every major customer and company touchpoint.

Qualifications:

Significant experience leading design across product and brand, ideally in technology, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, or B2B software.

Strong portfolio demonstrating both digital product design and visual/brand design.

Experience designing complex technical products and simplifying workflows for sophisticated users.

Strong understanding of:

Product design: UX, interaction design, information architecture, prototyping

Design systems: components, patterns, accessibility, consistency

Brand: visual identity, typography, art direction, digital expression

Research: user discovery, usability testing, qualitative insight

Comfortable working closely with product managers and engineers on detailed product decisions.

Strong communication skills and able to influence senior stakeholders across the company.

Experience building or scaling a design function is strongly preferred.

What you bring:

Design leadership: You set a clear point of view and raise the quality bar across the company.

Product thinking: You solve for user outcomes, not just aesthetics.

Brand instinct: You know how to build a distinctive and coherent company identity.

Systems thinking: You create reusable patterns rather than one-off designs.

Craft: You care deeply about detail, clarity, interaction, and visual quality.

Ownership: You can move from strategy to execution and take responsibility for the end result.