Head of Product Design (Design Foundations)

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We’re looking for an experienced, visionary, and strategic Head of Design to lead our Design Foundations team being responsible for both our multi-brand Design System and our GenAI Design team.

This team plays a critical role in challenging design thinking and driving innovation to better serve our customers. In this crucial role, you’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional leadership to ensure design is enabling product teams across OLX to move faster and deliver high-quality, scalable experiences.

As Head of Product Design, Design Foundations , you’ll translate company-wide experience goals into foundational strategies, design principles, and systems that empower all product teams. You’ll ensure consistency, efficiency, and scalability through key focus areas such as UI components (Nexus Team), AI integration best practices, content localisation, accessibility, and operational design efficiency.

You’ll lead two core areas, our platform-wide, multi-brand Design System and our emerging Generative AI design capabilities, ensuring they are tightly aligned with OLX’s broader product and business strategy. Your leadership will accelerate innovation, enhance consistency, and bring modern, future-facing design tools and approaches to life.

Driving the Design Foundations Vision and Strategy

• Define and lead the long-term vision and strategy for Design Foundations across OLX.
• Champion a system-based approach to design that scales across platforms and teams.
• Shape how GenAI augments design and product development workflows, from creation to execution.
• Ensure our design system is deeply integrated into product development, enabling efficiency, consistency, and accessibility.
• Collaborate with engineering, brand, design, and product leadership to ensure our foundations support diverse product needs and technical requirements.
• Define and evolve processes and governance models to ensure consistent application, contribution, and adoption of our Design System across our categories.
• Guide the team exploring how GenAI can unlock new value for users and internal teams.

Design Advocacy & Partnership

Design Quality & Consistency

Operational & Team Leadership

Mentorship and Growth

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at OLX

OLX values diversity and welcomes applicants of all races, ethnicities, disabilities, ages, genders, sexual orientations, religions, backgrounds, and experiences to apply. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all the requirements - you may be just the right fit for this or other opportunities with us!

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