Head of Design

Backlight is a global media technology company shaping the future of how creative teams produce, manage, and distribute content. We are hiring a Head of Design to lead design across a core part of Backlight’s product portfolio and help shape the next phase of growth. This is a hands-on player-coach role that involves setting the design vision, partnering with Product and Engineering, and scaling a small senior team.

• Define and evolve the design direction for Iconik and Wildmoka
• Align design execution with product strategy and engineering capability
• Shape how Iconik and Wildmoka expands into new customer segments and use cases
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across “tribes” as the organisation grows
• Maintain a high craft bar in complex B2B workflows
• Simplify powerful systems without dumbing them down
• Contribute directly to critical UX, interaction, and structural design work
• Coach and develop a small, senior design team
• Introduce scalable rituals, prioritisation clarity, and feedback loops
• Partner closely with Senior Leadership across Backlight to ensure high-quality implementation

• Senior product design leadership experience in B2B SaaS environments
• Experience working on complex, systems-driven products (workflow tools, systems of record, platforms)
• Ability to operate as a player-coach
• Comfort leading in scrappy, under-documented, high-ambiguity environments
• Comfortable working in a modern, iterative product environment (prototyping, testing, continuous refinement)
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with Product and Engineering
• Exposure to high-craft, opinionated tools (e.g. Linear, Attio, etc.)
• Familiarity with video, media, or creative workflows (industry experience not required, but affinity helps)
• Experience scaling small teams through inflection points