Head of Design

Responsibilities

• - Define PermitFlow's design strategy, including design system architecture, quality standards, critique processes, and cross-functional collaboration models.
• - Own and evolve the design system to ensure consistency, scalability, and coherence across the product as the company grows.

Requirements

• We’re an applied AI company serving the nation’s builders, tackling one of the largest information challenges in the economy: understanding what can be built, where, and how.
• Our AI agent workforce helps the fastest-growing construction companies navigate everything from permitting and licensing to inspections and project closeouts – accelerating housing, clean-energy, and infrastructure development across the country.
• As the U.S. enters a new capex supercycle across data centers, factories, housing, and renewables, joining PermitFlow means building the AI infrastructure at the core of every construction project driving the next wave of reindustrialization.
• This is a player-coach leadership role that requires exceptional craft, strong product judgment, and the ability to operate both strategically and hands-on in a fast-paced startup environment.
• experience leading and managing design teams, ideally in a high-growth startup or technology company. - Proven
• Systems thinking, not just good-looking screens. - Player-coach mentality with the ability to do hands-on design work while simultaneously building and scaling a team. - Active AI fluency, with AI tools integrated into your daily design workflow.
• Strong opinions on how AI is changing the way designers work and a track record of evolving your own process accordingly. - Strong
• experience standing up design processes, including critique rituals, quality gates, design-eng collaboration, and design system governance. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership and hold your own in strategic and technical conversations. - Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution in a fast-moving environment.

Experience