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Salary: USD 190,000 - 245,000 / annual
Kalepa is building AI systems for the insurance industry, helping underwriters and claims professionals work more effectively. The company creates professional-grade software that reads, reasons, decides, and acts within real workflows. Products are already in production with leading insurers.
As Lead Product Designer, you will own design for the platform's most complex, cross-cutting problems from discovery through delivery and iteration. You'll turn ambiguous problems into clear product direction by partnering with product managers, engineers, client success, and sales teams to balance user needs with business goals.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading design for complex, data-dense workflows that help underwriters find critical information and act with confidence
- Defining how AI surfaces in the product: communicating confidence levels, surfacing sources, and keeping underwriters in control of decisions
- Establishing scalable design patterns so the platform can expand across new lines of business without fragmenting the user experience
- Using AI and rapid prototyping tools to move quickly from concept to validated design
- Raising the design bar across the team through critique, mentorship, and shared standards
- Collaborating closely with the current Lead Designer, product managers, and engineers to bring polish and clarity to complex workflows
This role reports to the Head of Product and is based in New York with hybrid flexibility. Kalepa values hustle, customer impact, meritocracy, transparency, and relentless experimentation. The company has remote employees across 10+ languages globally and invests in bringing the team together for regional and global offsites.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience designing digital products for B2B, data-rich, or productivity tool companies
- Experience working in a rapidly scaling startup environment with ownership mentality
- Experience designing AI-driven tools
- Experience taking an existing platform and generalizing/scaling the UX to support new and expanding workflows
- Strong portfolio demonstrating ability to simplify complexity, design thoughtful UIs, and apply clear interaction patterns
- Systems thinking with experience shaping and contributing to design systems
- Strong visual design skills with attention to information hierarchy, interaction, and layout
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; proactive, responsive, and eager for feedback
- Curious and adaptable; comfortable solving ambiguous problems
Bonus:
- Experience with MUI (Material UI) or similar design systems
- InsurTech, FinTech, or other highly-regulated industry experience
- Technical background or interest in how things are built
