Head of Product Design

Why you should join BoostDraft

• You can enjoy the whole process of product market fit, and scale the business
• A lot of opportunities to learn from the founders / management, including leveraging our Japan experience and product development
• International environment with significant challenges to be met every day
• Lots of opportunities to interact with industry leaders who are focused on delivering products that offer exceptional user experiences
• You will use the latest technologies and will be encouraged to bring your flair to the role

What’s your challenges

Drive user insight through rapid exploration

• Own and lead our user research practice, with a strong bias toward early, prototype-driven user testing.
• Default to using AI-assisted prototyping to quickly explore ideas, validate assumptions, and surface risks before engineering investment.
• Turn ambiguous feedback and fragmented requests into clear hypotheses, prototypes, and learnings that guide product direction.

Set the bar for product design

• Define and evolve our design philosophy and principles, including how we balance speed vs. polish and AI-enabled workflows vs. traditional processes.
• Ensure design decisions are grounded in evidence from real users, not opinions or hierarchy.

Make design a force multiplier

• Build, scale, and maintain a design system that encodes user insight and enables teams to move fast with confidence.
• Champion modern tools and workflows—especially AI—that reduce cycle time from idea → prototype → user feedback → decision.

Lead and grow the design team

• Lead and coach a team of product designers to adopt prototype-first, research-led workflows.
• Set expectations that learning happens through making, testing, and iterating—not long handoffs or static specs.
• Stay hands-on when needed: prototyping, testing flows with users, and unblocking high-impact work.

Partner deeply across the company

• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with Product and Engineering to ensure learning velocity drives roadmap and prioritization.
• Help the organization build shared understanding of users through prototypes, narratives, and clear synthesis—not just documents.

Requirements

• Fluency in qualitative user research, especially concept testing, usability testing, and workflow validation
• Strong experience leading product design with a prototype-first mindset, using early artifacts to test and learn.
• Bias to action—you plan for multiple iterations to move releases forward and reduce risk, not to seek perfection.
• Design systems thinking—ability to translate learnings into scalable design systems, patterns, and principles.
• Scaling quality through the team - coaching and leading designers, both in product, marketing, and external teams.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted design and prototyping tools, and curiosity to continuously explore new approaches.
• Collaborative leadership style—you bring Product and Engineering along in the learning process.
• Cross platform experience, comfortable designing across web, desktop surfaces

Benefits

Visa and Relocation

Our teams are working fully remotely, and we are expanding our global presence. While our headquarters are currently in Japan, relocation to Japan is not mandatory. If you wish to relocate, we are happy to help you obtain a visa.

Working Arrangement

• Fully remote
• For employees residing near Tokyo, there may be opportunities to work in person several times a month
• Flexible working time
  • Flexible time: 6:00 am - 11:30 am / 3:00 pm - 10:00 pm
  • Core time: 11:30 am - 3:00 pm
• Virtual Office
  • You'll have the ability to craft a character within a virtual office environment and engage with fellow colleagues through interactive experiences

Others

Home, or any other place equivalent to home
※There is a possibility of commuting to a location designated by the company due to business reasons

5-day workweek (Saturday, Sunday, Public Holidays / End of Year and New Year holidays / others set by company)

Employment Status: Full-time (Fixed overtime pay included)
※permanent employment

Probation Period: 6 months

Prevention of Passive Smoking: Yes