Product Design Lead

                Job Title: Product Design Lead
Location: Remote – (Latin America preferred)
Salary Range: 3500 – 4500 USD/month
Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (EST)

NOTE: INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR POSITION

Company Overview:
Sagan is an exclusive membership community for top executives, founders, and CEOs seeking to hire and maximize the impact of international talent. We bridge the gap between global talent and US-based businesses, connecting candidates from vibrant regions like Latin America, the Philippines, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Africa with leading American companies. Sagan provides a high-performance remote work environment, ensuring access to world-class opportunities for top-tier professionals.

About the Company:
Sagan represents a B2B marketplace platform serving vending machine operators by combining equipment purchasing, supply ordering, and business intelligence tools in one unified solution. The company is transitioning from private beta to public launch and is building a scalable, data-driven SaaS platform for operational businesses.

Position Overview:
The Product Design Lead will own the end-to-end design function for a complex B2B SaaS platform. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role responsible for defining UX strategy, shaping product direction, and delivering scalable, intuitive design solutions across marketplace workflows, operational tools, and analytics dashboards.

Key Responsibilities:
- Lead design strategy across core products, including marketplace experiences, equipment workflows, and analytics dashboards.
- Own UX and product design decisions from discovery through delivery.
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership to translate business goals into a clear design direction.
- Conduct user research with operators to validate assumptions and uncover new opportunities.
- Define user flows, information architecture, and interaction patterns for complex B2B workflows.
- Build, maintain, and evolve a design system to support consistency and scale.
- Create wireframes, high-fidelity designs, and functional prototypes.
- Collaborate with engineers to deliver developer-ready designs and navigate technical trade-offs.
- Mentor junior designers as the design function grows.

Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience in product design.
- Strong background in B2B SaaS, marketplaces, fintech, or complex operational tools.
- Proven experience designing data-heavy dashboards, permissions, and multi-step workflows.
- Demonstrated UX research skills, including user interviews and insight synthesis.
- Experience building and scaling design systems from scratch.
- High proficiency in Figma.
- Comfortable with rapid prototyping tools such as Lovable, Bolt, V0, or similar.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted design and development tools (e.g., Cursor).
- Strong portfolio showcasing strategic problem-solving and product thinking.
- Experience collaborating closely with engineering teams and understanding technical constraints.

Nice-to-Haves:
- Experience working in early-stage or scaling SaaS environments
- Background designing tools for operational or logistics-heavy businesses.