Associate Principal Design

MathCo is a data and AI analytics and solutions company. We're hiring a Design Lead to work directly with the Head of Design: the operating partner who turns design strategy into how the practice actually runs. You'll work alongside our Design Managers across pods: setting the quality bar, unblocking delivery, and building the systems the team runs on.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Partner with the Head of Design on practice strategy, then own the execution of it.
Work with Design Managers day to day on reviews, staffing calls, delivery escalations, and quality.
Own the design quality bar across accounts: critique culture and the frameworks teams design against.
Grow design's footprint through proposals, pilots, and account conversations that turn good work into new scope.
Run the central design engine of systems, enablement, and the learning program.
Grow designers through mentoring, capability building, and career paths from analyst to manager.
Make the practice AI-native: work with AI for speed, design for it with patterns for agents, copilots, and trust.
WHAT YOU'LL BRING
10–12 years in design, several leading teams with shipped data products or enterprise software at scale.
A record of building practices, not just products with systems, rituals, and standards that outlast you.
Craft judgment across product, visual, and content because you raise work by reviewing it.
Fluency with AI on both sides, you use it daily to work faster and you've designed products where a model sits in the loop.
Commercial instinct, operating through others: you've grown accounts and managers alike
NICE TO HAVE
Consulting or client-services background.
Experience standing up design systems or DesignOps.
A public voice: writing, speaking, community.
HOW TO APPLY
Share your portfolio and a note on a design practice you've built or turned around, via the MathCo careers channel or your PSO

Work arrangement
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