Head/Lead/Sr of Design

We are not looking for someone to manage a design function. We are looking for someone to build one — and in doing so, shape how enterprise AI is experienced, trusted, and adopted at scale.

— 01 · THE OPPORTUNITY

A founding design leadership role.

Anthrobyte builds enterprise AI systems that move organizations from pilot to production-grade adoption. As we scale, we need a design leader who can hold the full vision: product experience, AI workflows, adoption journeys, design systems, and brand — all as one coherent whole.

This is less a traditional design role and more a seat at the founding table. You will work directly with the CEO, technical leadership, and enterprise clients to define how AI transformation is designed, communicated, and lived inside complex organizations. You will also play an active role in client-facing AI transformation work — conducting readiness assessments, facilitating value stream mapping, and co-creating transformation roadmaps that guide organizations from current-state operations to AI-powered futures.

HORIZON ONE · FOUNDING MANDATE

Head of Design

Own the full design vision — product experience, AI workflows, design systems, adoption journeys, and brand — as one coherent whole.

GROWTH TRACK · MERIT-BASED

Chief Design Officer

Grow into executive design leadership — shaping company strategy, client transformation, and the design culture as Anthrobyte scales.

Requirements

— 02 · RESPONSIBILITIES

Own the experience. Shape the transformation.

Product & Experience Design

–      Lead UX and interaction design across Anthrobyte’s product suite and client-facing platforms

–      Define and evolve the information architecture across complex AI workflows and enterprise interfaces

–      Translate intricate systems into intuitive, human-centred experiences grounded in real user behaviour

–      Own end-to-end product execution: from research and wireframing through to shipped, production-grade design

Design Systems & Experience Architecture

–      Build and govern a scalable design system that upholds Anthrobyte’s brand and product standards

–      Establish design principles, component libraries, and documentation that scale with the team

–      Ensure consistency across product, brand, and enterprise experience touchpoints

AI Transformation & Client Engagements

–      Conduct AI readiness assessments for enterprise clients, identifying adoption gaps and opportunity areas

–      Facilitate value stream mapping sessions to understand end-to-end workflows and pinpoint AI-enabled redesign opportunities

–      Co-create AI transformation roadmaps that bridge current-state operations and future-state AI-powered workflows

–      Design adoption and change management experiences that help enterprise users trust and embed AI into daily work

Brand, Storytelling & Growth

–      Own Anthrobyte’s brand experience across all touchpoints — digital, content, and enterprise

–      Lead the design of marketing assets, thought leadership content, and sales enablement materials

–      Shape how Anthrobyte shows up to clients, partners, and the broader market

✶  The Growth Pathway

Demonstrate consistent excellence as a design leader and the scope expands. You will grow into executive design leadership — shaping company strategy, representing design in board and investor conversations, leading a growing design team, and defining how AI transformation is experienced across every client engagement. This is not a title — it is a level of vision and ownership that must be earned and continually re-earned.

— 03 · WHO YOU ARE

The profile we are searching for.

You think across the full spectrum — from pixel to strategy, from user research to organizational change. You are the kind of designer who simplifies complex systems without losing what makes them real. You are as comfortable in a workshop with a client’s ops team as you are defining a design system or presenting a product vision to a founder.

You bring:

–      3+ years in product design, UX, or design leadership — with a strong portfolio spanning strategy, systems, and execution

–      Demonstrated ability to lead end-to-end design: research, information architecture, interaction design, and delivery

–      Experience designing for complex, data-rich, or enterprise environments — AI/ML products a strong advantage

–      Fluency in facilitating workshops: value stream mapping, design sprints, AI readiness sessions, or equivalent

–      A systems thinker’s instinct: you see the whole before you design the parts

–      Strong executive communication — you can present design decisions to founders, clients, and boards with equal clarity

–      Comfort operating in ambiguity and 0→1 environments, with a bias toward structured, high-quality output

–      Collaborative to the core: you co-create with engineers, product managers, and enterprise stakeholders without losing your design point of view

Bonus signals:

Startup 0→1 experience   AI / ML product design   Design systems ownership

Enterprise UX   Change management   Service design

Value stream mapping   Brand and storytelling   B2B SaaS

— 04 · WHAT WE OFFER

A rare kind of opportunity.

–      A founding design leadership role with genuine influence over product, brand, and client experience

–      Direct access to the CEO and technical leadership from day one

–      The mandate to build the design function the way it should be built — AI-native, human-centred, and outcome-driven

–      Active involvement in enterprise AI transformation engagements — real problems, real clients, real impact

–      The intellectual environment of a governance-first AI consultancy working on consequential enterprise challenges

–      Flexible, async-friendly work culture with high autonomy and high accountability

— 05 · OUR PROCESS

A process built on signal, not ceremony.

We keep it direct. A portfolio that speaks for itself, a focused conversation, a practical problem to think through together, and a final discussion with the founder. No multi-round panels. No work extracted under the guise of an ‘assignment’. We respect your time because we expect you to respect ours.

–      Portfolio review — we want to see the thinking behind the work, not just the output

–      Introductory conversation and Practical case conversation — a real design or transformation problem, discussed live with the hiring lead (60 min)

–      Founder meeting and offer, if the fit is mutual