Lead Product Designer

November 5, 2026

Office

Lead

Paris, France

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Keep in mind

Original vacancy is in French
You will likely need French for the job. The employer can confirm
Office-only work

Description

Permanent CDI position in Paris for a Lead Product Designer focused on innovation and AI. The person joins the Factory design team alongside the Head of Design, delivering strategic projects for large multi-sector enterprise clients. The role combines strategic framing, end-to-end product design, design quality governance and hands-on AI experimentation with POCs.

Responsibilities

Carry a product vision oriented to ROI, clarifying value, effort/impact tradeoffs and success indicators from framing
Design end-to-end on major strategic projects: UX Research, UX/UI, advanced prototyping, user testing and technical handoff
Drive quality and excellence of design deliverables while maintaining methodological standards of the team
Lead Design x AI initiatives through framing, prototyping innovative concepts, POCs and industrialization with Tech teams
Run active watch on AI, DesignOps and new practices to turn them into concrete and actionable experiments
Support upskilling of team designers through mentoring, pair-design and regular design reviews
Back the Head of Design on strategic decisions, overall quality and team dynamics
Take part in pre-sales to qualify client needs, structure methodological proposals, estimate design effort and support bid defenses

Requirements

About 7 years of Product Design experience with a confirmed Lead or Senior Product Designer role
Deep mastery of the Product Design value chain: User Research, ideation workshops, information architecture, UX/UI and Design Systems
Strong interest and concrete expertise in generative AI applied to design and product innovation
Excellent command of market tools including Figma, advanced prototyping tools and AI solutions for design
Strong business vision, sharp ROI sense, federating leadership, communication and cohesion skills