Chief Design Officer

Job Title: Chief Design Officer

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire Chief Design Officer with our client that is fully remote.

Job Description: The Chief Design Officer will own product design quality across the group's consumer products and brands. This is a hands-on design leadership role with direct involvement in our most important products and user experiences.

Job Responsibilities:

• Set the design direction and quality bar across group products.
• Work directly on or review critical user journeys, product concepts and interfaces.
• Turn complex financial and AI workflows into simple consumer experiences.
• Set standards across product design, interaction, visual design and design systems.
• Review shipped products and identify specific usability and design problems.
• Work with product and engineering from early concepts through production.
• Recruit and assess senior product, UI and brand designers.

Job Qualifications:

• Strong portfolio of shipped consumer technology products with meaningful usage.
• Deep product and interaction design capability, not primarily people management.
• Strong visual judgement and attention to interface details.
• Ability to prototype and communicate product interactions directly.
• Experience working closely with product and engineering on shipped products.
• Hands-on design style - able to create, critique and materially improve design work directly.

Job Details:

• Job Type: Direct Hire
• Salary Rate Range: Market (Wide Open)
• Location: 100% Remote, US

About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.