Head of Product Design

What you'll do:

• Define and evolve Halter’s product design vision, strategy, principles, and standards.
• Establish and scale a design system that enables speed, consistency, and quality across mobile and web (but mobile-first)
• Translate complex, real-world, data and jobs into clear, intuitive digital experiences.
• Own design quality as a competitive advantage and set a bar other companies aspire to.
• Work as a close partner to Product, Engineering, and Go-to-market leadership to shape product strategy, roadmaps, and outcomes.
• Influence what we build and how we build it, not just how it looks.
• Advocate for users while balancing business needs and technical constraints.
• Lead, manage, mentor, and grow a team of product designers across multiple product areas.
• Build a high-performance design culture grounded in craft, ownership, velocity and continuous improvement.
• Lift the performance ceiling of your team by leaning into and leveraging evolutions in technology, especially AI and automation.
• Set clear expectations and development paths for designers.
• Elevate design quality and clarity, raising the standard of excellence across every touchpoint.
• Stay close to the work - guiding key flows, reviewing designs, and unblocking teams.
• Drive strong design critique, experimentation, and data-informed decision making.
• Establish best practices across UX research, interaction design, visual design, and accessibility.

Who You Are:

• An experienced product designer with deep craft and strong product instincts.
• Experienced building and shaping design teams, ideally in a Head of Design role.
• Comfortable operating across levels, from vision and strategy down to execution and delivery.
• Experienced designing and scaling complex, data-rich products (e.g. real-time, geo-spatial, or systems-heavy domains). A bonus if you have experience in hardware-enabled software products.
• Experienced and highly effective working with Product and Engineering as peers, and cross-functionally with Go-to-market leaders.
• A champion of intelligence and automation, comfortable shaping a design function to benefit from AI tooling.
• Low ego. Opinionated and fearless, but pragmatic and precise. You are comfortable making hard trade-offs in fast-moving environments, with what’s best for Halter and our customers in mind.
• Genuinely motivated by real-world impact, and building something that will continue to revolutionise one of the world’s most important industries.

What sets us apart from most SaaS companies?

• Halter is real world in every sense. The product becomes a digital twin of land and animals. It guides animals, models land, monitors behaviours - all in real time.  It is used by customers in the field - rain, snow or shine. 
• Our customers might be data-hungry and AI-fluent, or this might be the first time they have used technology, especially a mobile app, in their business. The way in which we craft our experiences to cater to this spectrum of users is make or break. 
• We literally get our hands dirty, working closely with our customers - you will talk to customers constantly, you will get feedback (good and bad), and you will definitely need gumboots - it is hard to beat gathering insights, while standing almost literally in the shoes of our farmers. 
• We have a track record of taking risks and blazing new trails (which isn’t going to change). Much of what we do has no template or example to follow. Greenfield technical and design challenges are frequent, and our willingness to tackle them keeps us a step ahead of our competition.
• We have incredible engineers, who bring things to life with velocity and quality. As quick as we can bring a design concept to life, we can give ourselves the ability to test it, in the field. Calls and prototypes are useful, but our most important learnings come from seeing the real thing in action - nothing can replicate that.