Lead Product Designer

There are NO limits to your career: come shape the future and be part of a truly unique global culture at OutSystems!

About This Role

As a Lead Product Designer at OutSystems, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of our low-code platform. You’ll take ownership of delivering user-centered design solutions that address complex challenges and empower our customers to create software faster, smarter, and with greater impact.

In this role, you will drive design excellence across the product, ensuring every interaction and interface reflects OutSystems’ commitment to quality and innovation. Working closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Research teams, you will transform customer insights into intuitive and engaging product experiences that inspire confidence and drive adoption.

As a design lead, you will mentor and guide the designer you work with, fostering collaboration and a shared vision for design excellence. You’ll help establish and uphold design standards, align with strategic goals, and ensure OutSystems delivers a product experience that stands out in the low-code market.
What You Will Lead/Do or Key Responsibilities

• Lead Design Processes: Take ownership of user and product research, ideation sessions, end-to-end mockup solutions, and user testing, iterating on designs to deliver validated, impactful solutions.

• Advocate for Design Excellence: Champion product design practices across the Product and R&D organization, advocating for user-centric solutions and voicing the needs of our users to shape a better product.

• Collaborate in an Agile Environment: Partner with cross-functional teams to drive the design process from initial ideation through product delivery and launch, ensuring alignment and seamless execution.

• Empathize with Developers: Step into the developers’ perspective to identify challenges and craft pragmatic, effective design solutions that integrate seamlessly with the development process.

• Contribute to Practice Development: Support the evolution of the UX practice and provide training to empower other teams in adopting design best practices.

• Inspire and Motivate: Bring energy, adaptability, and enthusiasm to the team, introducing innovative ideas and approaches that spark creativity and elevate the product design process

Qualifications / What You Need To Succeed

• 5+ years of experience working in UX or Product Design.

• Experience in leading projects ranging from planning, conducting research in user experience, running product design processes and testing solutions.

• Experience working in cross-functional teams (e.g. design, engineering).

• Ability to go from macro vision to implementation details in an iterative, highly collaborative and supported way.

• Either a degree in a UX related field and professional experience with complex products (B2B SaaS preferred)

• Experience working in the technology industry preferred

• Great communication skills.

• Fluent in Figma and other design tools is a plus.

• Fluent in English, both spoken and written.

• Bonus: Knowledge of low-code platforms, software development processes, or related technical domains.

The Longer Story:

OutSystems is a global leader transforming how companies innovate through software, empowering IT leaders with a better way to build the software that matters most.We are looking for talented and motivated people to join us in helping companies solve some of their most strategic business challenges, from modernizing their workplace processes to transforming their employee and customer experiences. As a member of the OutSystems global team, you will help build, deliver, manage, and evolve the software that is a low-code market leader and preferred by professional developers around the world.

OutSystems is a truly global company, with more than 800,000 developer community members, 1,700 employees, more than 500 partners, and thousands of active customers in over 75 countries and across 21 industries. Founded in 2001, OutSystems has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, the UAE, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, India, and Singapore, and of course has a thriving, worldwide community of remote employees.

Working at OutSystems

Our goal is to ensure that OutSystems is a place for bright, happy, and motivated people who share a common purpose and take pride in excellent work towards our vision. Our culture is focused on building agility at scale, which allows us to operate with a high drive in a competitive market. In our federation of teams culture, if we have every team operating like a startup, we can all learn, grow, and innovate while having the space to be proactive and creative. We encourage our team members to collaborate, focus on results, act quickly, understand our business, and adopt a growth mindset.

What do we have to offer you? 

• A company that continues to grow, change and innovate, and gives our teams the space to be proactive and creative. 

• Real career opportunities. We care about growth and development. Vertical career progression is an obvious possibility, but we also offer the possibility for lateral moves, joining different teams, and mastering specific skills. 

• Work colleagues that are as smart, hardworking and driven as you – and a team that is global. 

• Disrupting the status quo is in our DNA. In fact, it’s why our company exists.

• We “Ask Why” a lot. It helps us connect our individual work to the bigger picture and sometimes even uncover a better way.

Are you ready for the next step in your career? Then we’d love to hear from you!

OutSystems nurtures an inclusive culture of diversity, where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic self and perform at their best. A company that embraces the creativity and innovation that comes through diverse perspectives. We are committed to creating a team that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive equal consideration regardless of race, place of origin, color, age, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by law.

Join us in disrupting the status quo of the low-code market, we give you the power to "Ask Why", you give our customers the power to innovate through software!