Senior Product Designer

About ownpath

ownpath is a design and technology company building at the intersection of design, engineering, and AI. We work across three verticals:

Studio - We partner with startups and global enterprises like Hero MotoCorp and Philips to solve high-stakes design and engineering challenges across automotive, finance, healthcare, enterprise software, and AI.

Labs - We build our own products, tools, and experiments.

Academy - Where our journey began, and which we're now re-launching to help shape the next generation of designers.

We've built exceptional products and experiences for ambitious companies. Now we're looking for someone to help us discover the next ones.

The Role

ownpath is looking for a Senior Product Designer to take ownership of complex product challenges and help shape thoughtful, high-impact digital experiences. You’ll work across a range of projects spanning websites, web and mobile applications, and emerging AI experiences, partnering with startups and enterprises across industries such as healthcare, mobility, fintech, and AI.

You’ll work closely with clients, strategists, engineers, and other designers to define problems, explore solutions, and take ideas from early thinking through to execution. You’ll be responsible for driving design direction, making strong product and design decisions, and ensuring a high bar for craft and user experience across your work.

This role is ideal for someone who combines strong product thinking with excellent visual and interaction design skills, is comfortable navigating ambiguity and complex stakeholders, and enjoys taking ownership of work while contributing to the growth and development of the wider design team.

What you'll do

Product Strategy & Consulting

Lead Discovery & Framing: Partner directly with clients to define the "what" and "why" of a product. Scope, frame, and articulate complex design challenges into clear, actionable project plans.

Synthesize & Visualize: Conduct and synthesize primary user research, market analysis, and business objectives to generate visionary product concepts and compelling narratives.

Design Craft & Leadership

End-to-End Ownership: Take full ownership of the design lifecycle, delivering exceptional work from early wireframes and rapid prototypes to polished UI/UX systems ready for engineering handoff.

Design for Impact: Apply deep knowledge of consumer behavior, interaction design, and visual aesthetics to create intuitive, highly-engaging experiences that move key performance indicators (KPIs) like adoption, conversion, and retention.

Systemic Thinking: Establish, maintain, and contribute to reusable design systems to ensure consistency, accessibility, and speed across large-scale client projects.

Technical Collaboration: Act as the primary design liaison with engineering teams, providing clear specifications, validating feasibility, reviewing development output, and resolving implementation issues to ensure design intent is realised accurately.

Team & Studio Growth

Mentorship: Act as a mentor and for project teams, providing constructive critique, guidance, and coaching to junior and mid-level designers.

Elevate Practice: Help evolve the Studio's internal practices, tools, and processes. Actively contribute to our culture of design excellence and continuous learning.

Thought Leadership: Contribute to content initiatives(breakdowns, articles, talks), and sharing project learnings with the team and for the broader design community.

What we're looking for

5+ years of experience designing and shipping digital consumer products, with significant experience in a design agency, consulting studio, or fast-paced consumer tech environment.

Exceptional Portfolio: A portfolio that showcases your design craft and demonstrates your ability to translate strategic insights into tangible, shipped products with measurable outcomes.

Strategic Fluency: Proven ability to operate as a strategic partner to Product Managers and business stakeholders, possessing strong business acumen and a solid understanding of technology constraints.

Mastery of Tools: Expert proficiency in Figma (or equivalent) for design and prototyping, with a strong understanding of how to work within and advance a design system.

Communication & Presence: Superior verbal, written, and presentation skills. You can clearly articulate and defend your design rationale to a room of executives and inspire a team of developers.

Bonus: Experience working with emerging AI-driven design technologies like V0.

Why ownpath

Work on long-term projects with enterprise clients, designing products and brands that operate at scale and seeing your work create real impact over time.

Competitive compensation aligned with industry standards, typically above traditional studio or agency benchmarks.

Mentorship from senior designers, regular critiques, and access to our Academy to continuously sharpen your craft.

Learn from a strong peer group working across different industries and product domains, with regular opportunities to share work, ideas, and insights.

Work alongside a thoughtful team that values craft, open feedback, and collaborative problem-solving.

Company-provided MacBook and access to premium design software and modern AI tools like Claude Code.

Flexible hybrid work setup with the option to work remotely when needed.