Team Lead, Design

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Position Overview

At Stay22, the Team Lead, Design is both a leader and a builder — someone who gets as much energy from growing people as from shaping pixels. This role leads a growing design team of three Product Designers and a UX Researcher, guiding them to deliver intuitive, elegant, and effective experiences across our platform.

You'll partner closely with the Head of Product to shape where our products — and our Hub ecosystem — are headed, balancing the day-to-day needs of your squads with a real point of view on where design should be in 1-2 years. You're someone who's genuinely excited about AI, and who sees agents and modern tools as a way to multiply your team's craft and speed. You're also an outward-looking leader who keeps one eye on the competitive landscape at all times, and who's comfortable moving between qualitative insight and quantitative data to make the call.

What You'll Do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of three Product Designers and a UX Researcher, fostering a culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain and evolve Stay22's design principles, systems, and best practices, keeping our design system alive, scalable, and genuinely used across squads.
• Lead design work on key product initiatives on your squad from discovery to delivery, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Leadership on strategy and execution.
• Think beyond the sprint: help shape the future of our products and the Hub hierarchy, balancing short-term delivery needs with a compelling long-term vision.
• Champion the use of AI tools, skills, and agents across the design workflow, helping the team work smarter and ship faster.
• Bring both qualitative and quantitative data into design decisions, from user research to product analytics, to ground your team's work in evidence.
• Proactively benchmark competitors and stay outward-focused, bringing fresh market and industry perspective back into how we design and prioritize.
• Raise the quality bar for user experience, design craft, and product thinking across the team.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of experience in product design, including