Location: Vienna (Remote-first, optional office access in Vienna)
Employment Type: Full-time
Compensation: €80,000 – €150,000 gross/year + equity

About fonio.ai

fonio.ai is an AI voice automation company building AI telephone assistants for small and medium-sized businesses. The product ensures that no business call is ever missed, helping companies stay responsive while focusing on what matters most.

The vision goes beyond voice: fonio.ai is building toward the first fully automated, AI-native CRM system.

With 7,500+ customers, €5M+ ARR, and ~30% monthly growth, the company is scaling fast toward a €30M ARR target by year-end, operating in a high-ownership, high-velocity environment.

The Role

As Lead Product Designer, you take full responsibility for product design, branding, and design team leadership. You don’t just design interfaces—you define how thousands of businesses across Europe experience fonio, from first website interaction to core product usage and brand perception.

You operate as a senior individual contributor with strong leadership scope, while remaining fully hands-on in design execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Own hands-on product design, customer interviews, and branding (~50% of your time)
• Take ownership of 3 product areas in close collaboration with Product and Engineering
• Own and evolve the brand in collaboration with the Staff Designer
• Lead and develop the design team across product design, web, and branding
• Work closely with founders and engineering in fast, direct decision loops
• Conduct regular customer interviews (e.g. tradespeople, doctors, law firms) and translate insights into product decisions
• Define and maintain the design standard across product, web, and brand
• Build scalable, consistent design systems across multiple product surfaces

What You Bring

• Strong product design craft (Figma, user research, prototyping, design systems)
• Experience grounded in product thinking and analytics, not purely aesthetic design
• Senior IC with leadership ambition (or proven leadership experience without losing hands-on execution)
• Strong pragmatism: ability to simplify complex systems into clear, usable interfaces
• Experience scaling design systems across multiple product areas
• AI-first mindset: comfortable using modern tools (Cursor, v0, Claude, etc.) to accelerate design workflows
• Fluent German (required for DACH customer base) and strong English

What You Can Expect

• Full ownership over product design, brand, and design team direction
• Direct impact on a product used by thousands of businesses daily
• 100% focus time (no regular meetings)
• Extremely fast execution and daily shipping cadence
• High creative freedom with real product responsibility
• Close collaboration with founders and engineering

Benefits

• €80,000–€150,000 salary + equity
• 100% remote with optional office in Vienna (7th district, meals included)
• Unlimited budget for tools when ROI is clear
• Top-tier equipment and access to latest AI tooling
• Flexible tooling budget without bureaucracy
• Direct collaboration with founders and senior team