Lead Product Designer

We are on a mission to transform how people interact with companies by making every conversation seamless, personalized, and human-like. Our AI Agent Management Platform empowers enterprises to create and manage AI voice and chat agents at scale, turning interactions into lasting relationships.

As our Lead Product Designer - Consumer Experience, you will drive the realisation of the design vision for consumer-facing, multimodal experiences across voice, chat, and beyond. You will guide your cross-functional product team to translate this vision into intuitive, trustworthy, and engaging interfaces that make AI agents feel effortless to use.

This is an opportunity to lead design at the heart of how people experience AI, shaping consumer-grade interfaces that will influence the future of Agentic AI.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

• Bring the design vision to life in your product team, ensuring clarity and usability across consumer-facing, multimodal experiences.
• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and AI specialists to align on priorities, user needs, technical feasibility, and business impact.
• Balance simplicity and delight, ensuring interfaces feel natural and human-like across voice, chat, and graphical touchpoints.
• Lead UX strategy for your product team with a focus on multimodal consumer interactions, ensuring research insights shape both near-term design choices and the long-term vision.
• Prototype and test interaction models that make AI agents intuitive and trustworthy for everyday users.
• Take end-to-end ownership of design in your product team, shaping direction and delivering high-quality, hands-on work.

• 8+ years of experience in product design with a proven track record in consumer-facing products, including two years in a lead capacity.
• Strong expertise in designing multimodal experiences, ideally across voice, chat, and mobile.
• Ability to translate a design vision into coherent, high-quality execution within a cross-functional team.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills, with a portfolio that demonstrates elegant, user-centered solutions in consumer contexts.
• Experience collaborating with product managers and engineers to drive outcomes and influence priorities.
• A research-driven mindset, grounded in user research, usability testing, and data-informed decision making.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to align and inspire cross-functional teams.

• Experience designing consumer-facing products that integrate AI or conversational interfaces.
• Background in designing multimodal experiences that combine voice, chat, and graphical interfaces.
• Familiarity with design systems in a scaling organization.
• Knowledge of accessibility best practices and inclusive design principles for multimodal products.
• Interest in emerging interaction models such as ambient computing, AR/VR, or wearables.

• Join a diverse team of 40+ nationalities with flat hierarchies and a collaborative company culture.
• Opportunity to build and scale your career at the intersection of customer-facing roles and engineering in a dynamic startup on its journey to become an international leader in SaaS platforms for Conversational AI.
• Deutschland ticket, Urban Sports Club, Job Rad, Nilo Health, weekly sponsored office lunches.
• Competitive compensation and equity package.
• Flexible working hours, 28 vacation days and workation opportunities.
• Access to a training and development budget for continuous professional growth.
• Regular team events, game nights, and other social activities.
• Work from a home and/or our beautiful office(s) in the heart of Berlin or Munich with adjustable desks, social areas, fresh fruits, cereals, and drinks.

Recruiter video call → Meet your manager → Portfolio Walkthrough →  Live Whiteboard Session → Engineering Lead Interview → Bar Raiser Interview

Parloa is one of the fastest growing startups in the world of Generative AI and customer service. Parloa's voice-first GenAI platform for contact centers is built on the best AI technology to automate customer service with natural-sounding conversations for outstanding experiences on all communication channels. Leveraging natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning, Parloa creates intelligent phone and chat solutions for businesses that turn contact centers into value centers by boosting customer service efficiency. The Parloa platform resolves the majority of customer queries quickly and automatically, allowing human agents to focus on complex issues and relationships. Parloa was founded in 2018 by Malte Kosub and Stefan Ostwald and today employs over 400+ people in Berlin, Munich, and New York.

When you join Parloa, you become part of a dynamic and innovative team made up of over 34 nationalities that's revolutionizing an entire industry. We're passionate about growing together and creating opportunities for personal and professional development. With our recent $120 million Series C investment, we're expanding globally and looking for talented individuals to join us on this exciting journey.

Do you have questions about Parloa, the role, or our team before you apply? Please feel free to get in touch with our Hiring Team.

Parloa is committed to upholding the highest data protection standards for our clients' and employees' data. All our employees are instrumental in ensuring the utmost care, GDPR, and ISO compliance, including ISO 27001, in handling sensitive information.

* We provide equal opportunities to all qualified applicants regardless race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, disability status, socioeconomic background and other characteristics.