Product Design Director in London

Intercom is the AI Customer Service company on a mission to help businesses provide incredible customer experiences. Our AI agent Fin, the most advanced customer service AI agent on the market, lets businesses deliver always-on, impeccable customer service and ultimately transform their customer experiences for the better. Founded in 2011 and trusted by nearly 30,000 global businesses, Intercom is setting the new standard for customer service.

Intercom is hiring a Product Design Director who can lead from the front — raising the bar on craft, building high-performing teams, and helping us move fast through ambiguity. We are one of the most design-driven and AI first technology companies. Our product is used by millions, and our design team plays a critical role in making it world-class.

This year, we’re doubling down on craft, execution, and design leadership. We’re hiring a Product Design Director to be the overall design leader of our high-performing centralised design team focussed solely on building Fin. This is not a maintenance role. It’s a build-and-scale role. Our goal is nothing less than breakout success in the major new category of AI Agents for Customer Support.

We need leaders—people who will raise the quality bar, bring a spark of creativity, drive best-in-class interaction and visual design, and push execution excellence across our most strategic product areas. This is not a strategy or people-management only role. We need a maker, a doer, a leader. Somebody who loves to partner and can lead through the work.

• Leading and growing high-performing design teams in product-first companies.
• Hiring, coaching, and developing designers at all levels — from IC to leaders/managers.
• Owning execution across a primary product line and a portfolio of features.
• Partnering deeply with Product and Engineering leadership to align on priorities, make tradeoffs, and move fast.
• Thriving in ambiguous, fast-changing environments — and turning chaos into clarity.
• A track record of driving a team to ship great software, not just making decks about it.
• Strong visual sensibility, high standards for craft, and an eye for detail.
• Demonstrated product taste — you know what great looks like, and you can help teams get there.

• People who need certainty, full specs, or clear org charts to get started.
• Leaders who lean back and wait for direction, rather than leaning in and making things happen.
• Those who are satisfied with "good enough" — this is a role for someone who sees the extra 10% that makes a product unforgettable.
• Anyone wedded to structures and systems that worked five years ago.

• Lead, coach, and inspire a team of designers and design leaders working across multiple product surfaces.
• Partner with your Product and Engineering leadership counterparts to lead a product division — aligning strategy, driving decisions, and unblocking delivery.
• Set and uphold an extremely high bar for craft — from UX flow to pixels to polish.
• Solve problems from first principles, not templates.
• Help your team make hard decisions, move fast, and focus on outcomes over process.
• Be a design quality amplifier — noticing the details others miss, and pushing the work to where it needs to be.
• Build a healthy, high-trust team culture grounded in feedback, growth, and ownership.
• Stay hands‐on in the work — reviewing designs, jumping into critiques, and driving clarity.

• Your team is delivering high-quality product work at speed — consistently.
• You’ve hired exceptional talent and helped your existing team grow.
• You’ve partnered with other design leaders and operations functions to implement the correct amount of structure and rigour required for success.
• Product and engineering leadership love partnering with you — you unlock forward progress and raise the ambition.
• Your designers are solving meaningful customer problems and sweating the final 10% of craft.
• You’re a key player in shaping how the entire company builds product in the AI era — not following playbooks, but writing new ones.

We understand that interviewing for a new role is both time and energy consuming–we aim to be thorough, speedy and transparent in our approach. You should expect for the entire process to be no more than 4 weeks from start to finish.

Ready to build something great? If you’re driven to push the boundaries of product design and have the craft, autonomy, and taste to make a real impact, we want to hear from you.

Intercom has a hybrid working policy. We believe that working in person helps us stay connected, collaborate easier and create a great culture while still providing flexibility to work from home. We expect employees to be in the office at least three days per week.

We have a radically open and accepting culture at Intercom. We avoid spending time on divisive subjects to foster a safe and cohesive work environment for everyone. Our goal is to focus on doing incredible work to achieve our goals and unite the company through our core values.

Intercom values diversity and is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity. Intercom will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.