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Head of Design / Design Lead

Foundernest 🇵🇹 Portugal

Full-time Senior

Lead and grow the design team while influencing product direction and user experience. Own the usability and experience quality across the platform, ensuring clarity and adoption.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow the design team while influencing product direction and user experience. Own the usability and experience quality across the platform, ensuring clarity and adoption.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have 5+ years of product design experience and a strong understanding of user needs. A genuine curiosity about AI and technology, along with strong communication skills, is essential.

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary
  • Meaningful Equity
  • Flexible Schedule
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Learning Opportunities

Key Skills

Product Design User Experience Leadership Communication Team Management AI Technology User Needs Usability Experience Quality Clarity Adoption

About Foundernest

FounderNest is a leading AI-powered market intelligence platform that transforms how innovation, strategy, M&A, and corporate venture teams discover, analyze, and act on market opportunities. By leveraging advanced natural language AI and deep data analytics across millions of companies, patents, and trends, FounderNest surfaces high-potential startups, emerging technologies, and strategic insights that traditional tools miss, helping organisations make faster, smarter decisions and stay ahead of disruption. Trusted by global enterprises and built with a human-centric AI approach, FounderNest turns complex market data into actionable intelligence for growth and innovation. Co-founded by Stanford and Wharton/Google grads and trusted by the most innovative corporations in the world, FounderNest is backed by Silicon Valley VCs and angels who are also investors in companies such as Paypal, Waze, Palantir, Square, and Pinterest, among others.

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