Hex
A new platform for working with data
Web Design Lead
Location
New York
Posted
92 days ago
Salary
$170K - $240K / year
Bachelor Degree8 yrs expEnglishReact
Job Description
• Lead the design and experience for all of Hex’s web surfaces, including our website, documentation site, and any future experience or surface.
• Own launch assets alongside marketing, ensuring every major product moment is visually clear, compelling, and on-brand.
• Establish and maintain visual quality, patterns, and consistency across all web experiences.
• Partner closely with designers and marketers to bring stories to life with clarity, craft, and narrative cohesion.
• Drive the long-term web roadmap, identifying opportunities for performance, clarity, storytelling, and experimentation.
• Collaborate with engineering partners (internal + external) to ensure high-quality implementation.
• Support product illustrations and light motion, bringing delight and personality to key moments.
• Hire, manage, and mentor a team of engineers and designers over time.
• Influence processes, standards, and creative culture of the Design team.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in web/visual/UI design with a portfolio demonstrating world-class craft, storytelling, and systems thinking
- strong across UX, layout, visual design, and typography
- experience designing marketing surfaces for technical, B2B, or product-led companies
- understand how to collaborate with engineers and think in HTML/CSS/React constraints (coding skills not required, but deep understanding is)
- sharp eye for visual consistency, motion, micro-interaction quality, and illustration
- operate autonomously with a bias toward velocity, owning projects from concept to launch
- excited to establish processes, patterns, and design rituals for a growing team
- communicate design decisions clearly, with humility and cross-functional fluency
- enjoy both high-level creative direction and hands-on execution
- energized by a mix of campaign work, long-term system building, and ongoing iteration of a high-traffic website
Benefits
- market-benched salary & equity
- comprehensive health benefits
- flexible paid time off