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Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety solutions to many of the world’s top-recognized brands and companies, is actively seeking a Head of Design to join our People Assurance team.
About Intertek People Assurance
Intertek People Assurance empowers organizations to build safer, more compliant, and higher-performing workforces through training, certification, consulting, and assurance services. We partner with enterprises across regulated and high-risk industries to ensure competence, compliance, and continuous performance improvement delivering confidence and peace of mind to our customers.
As part of a global portfolio that emphasizes innovative learning and people-centric technology, we infuse digital and human-led enablement into everything we do.
Learn more @ www.intertek.com/people-assurance
What are we looking for?
The Head of Design is a visionary, execution-oriented leader who owns the entire design function at People Assurance. This is not a maintenance role, it’s a transformation mandate. You will define and drive the design strategy across product, influence brand, and support all external-facing touchpoints, supporting a new standard for how People Assurance looks, feels, and connects with the people who use and encounter our products.
The ideal leader is hungry, change-oriented, and energized by building from the ground up. You’ve also done this before. You’ve taken a legacy product or brand and transformed it into something dramatically better, and you’re ready to do it again with the full backing of executive leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
Design Leadership & Vision
- Shape and implement a cohesive design philosophy that elevates workflow efficiency, product functionality, and overall usability across the software portfolio.
- Ensure core design principles and usability best practices are applied consistently across all product experiences.
- Lead direct research with customers and prospects to understand needs, evaluate industry trends, and translate insights into clear recommendations. Partner with Product Management to prioritize and drive these improvements into the product
- Serve as a trusted design advisor to executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Engineering, and Marketing.
- Support visual examples and executive presentations that articulate design transformation and ‘how’ we get there.
- Define clear design standards and implement scalable design systems across all PA products and services.
- Present design strategy, direction, and progress to leadership and key stakeholders on a regular cadence.
- Establish a scalable design system and governance model that enables Product, Marketing, and other functions to leverage shared visual standards while maintaining clear ownership of their respective domains.
Product Design (UI/UX)
- Own end-to-end product design experience, from discovery and wireframes to polished, production-ready UI.
- Lead the transition from our legacy interface to a modern, intuitive, and scalable design system – elevating quality and accelerating delivery. This is the largest undertaking and priority of the role
- Lead direct research with customers and prospects to understand needs, evaluate industry trends, and translate insights into clear recommendations. Partner with Product Management to prioritize and drive these improvements into the product
- Define and maintain the design system and component library in close partnership with Engineering.
Ensure accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design principles are embedded in all product work.
Brand & External Presence
- Partner with Marketing to evolve and maintain shared visual standards that create consistency between product experiences and external brand experiences.
- Provide design guidance and consultation to ensure consistency across product and external experiences.
- Support brand evolution in partnership with Marketing. Elevate our product brand to a position that signals trust, modernity, and market leadership.
- Partner with Marketing to establish and evolve shared visual standards while maintaining clear ownership boundaries between product design and marketing execution
Change Management & Modernization
- Lead the cultural and operational shift to design-led thinking across the organization.
- Define and drive the roadmap for evolving our visual and UX standards from legacy to modern, with clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
- Champion design as a competitive advantage, building internal advocacy and organizational fluency around design value.
Qualifications & Experience:
Required
- 6-8+ years of design experience in a SaaS environment, with a minimum of 2 years in a senior or lead design role.
- Must have people management experience – team will flex from 6-10 designers
- Demonstrated track record of modernizing a product UI — you have led a successful transition from legacy to modern design and can speak to the process and outcomes.
- Full-spectrum design capability: you move fluidly between product/UX work and brand/visual identity without a drop in quality.
- Experience building or scaling a design team, including hiring, mentoring, and developing talent.
- Exceptional visual design skills and an uncompromising eye for detail. Your portfolio showcases this skillset.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate and sell a design vision to senior leadership.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity; you drive clarity and don’t wait to be directed.
Preferred
- Experience in HR tech, workforce management, compliance, or adjacent SaaS verticals.
- Proficiency in Figma and experience building design systems at scale.
- Background in high-growth or scale-up environments where pace and adaptability are essential.
- Familiarity with front-end development workflows and collaborating closely with engineering teams.
Why Intertek People Assurance
- A requirement to transform, not maintain, with the authority and scope to make a real, lasting impact.
- Executive partnership and visibility; design is viewed as a strategic function, not a support role.
- Collaborative, mission-driven culture focused on building safer, more capable workforces at scale.
- The opportunity to define a design legacy at a company in the middle of meaningful transformation.
Benefits Information
In addition to competitive compensation packages, when working with Intertek you can expect benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k) with company match, generous vacation / sick time (PTO), tuition reimbursement and more.
Intertek: Total Quality. Assured.
Intertek is a world leader in the Quality Assurance market, with a proven, high-quality business model and a global network of customer-focused operations and highly engaged subject matter experts. With passion, pace, and precision we work to exceed our customers’ expectations, while engaging with our employees to be 10X in their performance and professional growth.
Intertek is a drug-free workplace. As a condition of employment, certain positions may be required to pass a pre-employment drug test based on the type of work that will be performed.
We Value Diversity
Intertek’s network of phenomenal people are our greatest assets, and the diversity they bring fuels our success. Intertek is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that values inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
For individuals with disabilities who would like to request accommodation, or who need assistance applying, please email intertekhrusa@intertek.com or call 1-877-694-8543 (option #5) to speak with a member of the HR Department.
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Intertek’s People Assurance team provides range of workforce-focused solutions that empower our clients’ employees to identify and close operational gaps and mitigate risk by assuring smart actions across organizations. Our services give clients the tools they need to build, maintain, and protect their brands, supporting them in the continuous evolution of their workforce to maximize employee potential.Intertek is a leading Total Quality Assurance provider to industries worldwide. Our network of more than 1,000 laboratories and offices in more than 100 countries, delivers innovative and bespoke Assurance, Testing, Inspection and Certification (ATIC) solutions for our customers' operations and supply chains. Working at Intertek means joining a global network of state-of-the-art facilities and passionate people who deliver superior customer service with a purpose of bringing quality, safety, and sustainability to life.
Head of Design – Remote
Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety solutions to many of the world’s top-recognized brands and companies, is actively seeking a Head of Design to join our People Assurance team.
About Intertek People Assurance
Intertek People Assurance empowers organizations to build safer, more compliant, and higher-performing workforces through training, certification, consulting, and assurance services. We partner with enterprises across regulated and high-risk industries to ensure competence, compliance, and continuous performance improvement delivering confidence and peace of mind to our customers.
As part of a global portfolio that emphasizes innovative learning and people-centric technology, we infuse digital and human-led enablement into everything we do.
Learn more @ www.intertek.com/people-assurance
What are we looking for?
The Head of Design is a visionary, execution-oriented leader who owns the entire design function at People Assurance. This is not a maintenance role, it’s a transformation mandate. You will define and drive the design strategy across product, influence brand, and support all external-facing touchpoints, supporting a new standard for how People Assurance looks, feels, and connects with the people who use and encounter our products.
The ideal leader is hungry, change-oriented, and energized by building from the ground up. You’ve also done this before. You’ve taken a legacy product or brand and transformed it into something dramatically better, and you’re ready to do it again with the full backing of executive leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
Design Leadership & Vision
- Shape and implement a cohesive design philosophy that elevates workflow efficiency, product functionality, and overall usability across the software portfolio.
- Ensure core design principles and usability best practices are applied consistently across all product experiences.
- Lead direct research with customers and prospects to understand needs, evaluate industry trends, and translate insights into clear recommendations. Partner with Product Management to prioritize and drive these improvements into the product
- Serve as a trusted design advisor to executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Engineering, and Marketing.
- Support visual examples and executive presentations that articulate design transformation and ‘how’ we get there.
- Define clear design standards and implement scalable design systems across all PA products and services.
- Present design strategy, direction, and progress to leadership and key stakeholders on a regular cadence.
- Establish a scalable design system and governance model that enables Product, Marketing, and other functions to leverage shared visual standards while maintaining clear ownership of their respective domains.
Product Design (UI/UX)
- Own end-to-end product design experience, from discovery and wireframes to polished, production-ready UI.
- Lead the transition from our legacy interface to a modern, intuitive, and scalable design system – elevating quality and accelerating delivery. This is the largest undertaking and priority of the role
- Lead direct research with customers and prospects to understand needs, evaluate industry trends, and translate insights into clear recommendations. Partner with Product Management to prioritize and drive these improvements into the product
- Define and maintain the design system and component library in close partnership with Engineering.
Ensure accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design principles are embedded in all product work.
Brand & External Presence
- Partner with Marketing to evolve and maintain shared visual standards that create consistency between product experiences and external brand experiences.
- Provide design guidance and consultation to ensure consistency across product and external experiences.
- Support brand evolution in partnership with Marketing. Elevate our product brand to a position that signals trust, modernity, and market leadership.
- Partner with Marketing to establish and evolve shared visual standards while maintaining clear ownership boundaries between product design and marketing execution
Change Management & Modernization
- Lead the cultural and operational shift to design-led thinking across the organization.
- Define and drive the roadmap for evolving our visual and UX standards from legacy to modern, with clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
- Champion design as a competitive advantage, building internal advocacy and organizational fluency around design value.
Qualifications & Experience:
Required
- 6-8+ years of design experience in a SaaS environment, with a minimum of 2 years in a senior or lead design role.
- Must have people management experience – team will flex from 6-10 designers
- Demonstrated track record of modernizing a product UI — you have led a successful transition from legacy to modern design and can speak to the process and outcomes.
- Full-spectrum design capability: you move fluidly between product/UX work and brand/visual identity without a drop in quality.
- Experience building or scaling a design team, including hiring, mentoring, and developing talent.
- Exceptional visual design skills and an uncompromising eye for detail. Your portfolio showcases this skillset.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate and sell a design vision to senior leadership.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity; you drive clarity and don’t wait to be directed.
Preferred
- Experience in HR tech, workforce management, compliance, or adjacent SaaS verticals.
- Proficiency in Figma and experience building design systems at scale.
- Background in high-growth or scale-up environments where pace and adaptability are essential.
- Familiarity with front-end development workflows and collaborating closely with engineering teams.
Why Intertek People Assurance
- A requirement to transform, not maintain, with the authority and scope to make a real, lasting impact.
- Executive partnership and visibility; design is viewed as a strategic function, not a support role.
- Collaborative, mission-driven culture focused on building safer, more capable workforces at scale.
- The opportunity to define a design legacy at a company in the middle of meaningful transformation.
Benefits Information
In addition to competitive compensation packages, when working with Intertek you can expect benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k) with company match, generous vacation / sick time (PTO), tuition reimbursement and more.
Intertek: Total Quality. Assured.
Intertek is a world leader in the Quality Assurance market, with a proven, high-quality business model and a global network of customer-focused operations and highly engaged subject matter experts. With passion, pace, and precision we work to exceed our customers’ expectations, while engaging with our employees to be 10X in their performance and professional growth.
Intertek is a drug-free workplace. As a condition of employment, certain positions may be required to pass a pre-employment drug test based on the type of work that will be performed.
We Value Diversity
Intertek’s network of phenomenal people are our greatest assets, and the diversity they bring fuels our success. Intertek is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that values inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
For individuals with disabilities who would like to request accommodation, or who need assistance applying, please email intertekhrusa@intertek.com or call 1-877-694-8543 (option #5) to speak with a member of the HR Department.
#LI-Remote
#LI-CL2
CA-CL1
Intertek’s People Assurance team provides range of workforce-focused solutions that empower our clients’ employees to identify and close operational gaps and mitigate risk by assuring smart actions across organizations. Our services give clients the tools they need to build, maintain, and protect their brands, supporting them in the continuous evolution of their workforce to maximize employee potential.Intertek is a leading Total Quality Assurance provider to industries worldwide. Our network of more than 1,000 laboratories and offices in more than 100 countries, delivers innovative and bespoke Assurance, Testing, Inspection and Certification (ATIC) solutions for our customers' operations and supply chains. Working at Intertek means joining a global network of state-of-the-art facilities and passionate people who deliver superior customer service with a purpose of bringing quality, safety, and sustainability to life.
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Who's Hiring
- WSP1
- Intertek1
- Pickford AI1P
- Red Cell Partners1
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services2
- Technology & Software1
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote head of product design jobs.
- 8 or more years of product design experience with at least 3 in a people-management role
- Demonstrated experience building or scaling a design team and practice
- Expert proficiency in Figma, including component libraries and design system governance
- Proven ability to set design strategy and align it with product and business goals
- Experience conducting and synthesizing user research to inform product direction
- Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, or a related field, or equivalent experience
Tips for Your Remote Head Of Product Design Job Search
Tailor your portfolio to product outcomes
Hiring panels for head of product design roles want to see decisions, not just deliverables. For each case study, lead with the business problem, your design direction, and the measurable outcome. Remove student work and anything you didn't own end to end.
Show your cross-functional leadership evidence
Job descriptions at this level consistently ask how you've aligned product managers, engineers, and executives around design direction. Your resume should name specific initiatives where you drove that alignment, not just list team sizes managed.
Filter openings by product maturity stage
A head of product design role at a Series A startup expects you to build the practice from scratch. The same title at a public company means inheriting an established team. Knowing which stage fits you narrows your list fast and sharpens your cover pitch.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists head of product design openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a design critique for the panel round
Most head of product design interviews include a live critique of the company's own product. Before the panel, identify two or three specific interaction or hierarchy problems and frame your critique around user goals, not visual preferences. Generic feedback reads as junior.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate compensation
At the head level, reporting structure and team budget authority matter as much as salary. Before you accept an offer, confirm whether you own headcount decisions and whether design has a seat in product roadmap planning. Scope gaps are harder to fix after you start.
Remote Head Of Product Design Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote head of product design job?
Target companies that already run distributed teams, since they hire remotely by default and know how to onboard someone they never meet in person. Remote head of product design employers screen hard for self-direction and clear written communication on top of the core skills, so show evidence you can own work without someone over your shoulder. Apply to the openings above that match your experience.
Which companies hire remote head of product designs?
Remote head of product design roles are posted by WSP, Intertek, and Pickford AI and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Remote-first firms and large companies running distributed teams post the most remote head of product design roles.
Can you get a remote head of product design job with no experience?
Yes, but it is harder than an on-site role, because remote work expects you to operate independently from the start. Entry-level remote head of product design openings do exist, especially at remote-first companies, and a portfolio of real work helps more than a long resume. Applying broadly to the roles that fit improves your odds.
Do you need a degree for remote head of product design jobs?
Not always. Many employers hire remote head of product designs on demonstrated skills and prior work rather than a specific degree, though some larger companies still prefer one. Showing relevant results matters more than a credential for most remote head of product design roles.
Which industries hire the most remote head of product designs?
Remote head of product design roles concentrate in Consulting & Professional Services and Technology & Software, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. These sectors run distributed teams and hire head of product designs remotely most consistently.
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