Job Title: Lead Product Designer
Employment Status: Exempt
Office Hours: Hybrid
Location: Vienna, Austria OR Boston, MA, USA
Compensation: Vienna based: €110K+ salary based on experience, Boston based: $155K-$168K salary. Compensation also includes performance-based bonus program and equity
*compensation dependent on related experience level

About Ketryx:

Ketryx is the AI-native compliance platform for regulated industries. We help medical device, pharma, and automotive teams ship software faster without compromising on the safety and quality standards their industries — and their patients — depend on.

We're a Series B company with offices in Boston and Vienna, and we're building the system of record for how regulated AI gets developed and shipped.

About the Role:

We're hiring a Lead Product Designer to make our design team a primary source of user truth at Ketryx.

Our users are not casual software consumers. They are systems engineers, quality leads, regulatory specialists, and software developers working on products where mistakes have real consequences. Designing for them means understanding their work at a depth most B2B companies never reach — and translating that understanding into workflows that feel obvious to the people who live in them every day.

You'll build and lead a research-led design function that deeply understands these personas, shapes what we build (not just how it looks), and partners with product on every roadmap decision. You'll inherit a small team in Vienna, a strong product partnership, and a company that takes design seriously as a peer function across R&D.

This is a hands-on leadership role at early-stage pace. You should be excited to run the playbook yourself before scaling it.

Responsibilities:

• Own discovery as a craft. Stand up a JTBD and persona knowledge base that PMs, engineers, and customer success reference weekly as shared vocabulary. Run a sustained cadence of user research — interviews, synthesis, prototype-based hypothesis testing — at a depth that would have required a much larger research org a few years ago.
• Shape the roadmap upstream. Embed designers as partners with product managers from the earliest stages of discovery, not as downstream service providers. Be the person who can change a roadmap decision through research rather than assertion. Install the rituals — design reviews, discovery syncs, artifact ownership — that keep the user voice central when commercial pressure pulls direction elsewhere.
• Design end-to-end workflows for specialized users. Lead design for products used by multiple personas across a single regulated workflow — from upstream tools like Jira, Polarion, and GitHub all the way through to compliance artifacts and audit-ready records. "User-friendly" here doesn't mean consumer polish; it means making genuinely complex work feel coherent.
• Build the team and the operating model. Develop the design team thoughtfully. Raise the craft bar on persona-to-workflow translation. Establish the standards, systems, and tooling that let design scale without depending on a single leader being in every room.
• Operationalize AI in the design process. Use AI-native tooling to compress the discovery-to-insight loop and run more research, more rigorously, than a traditional team of your size could. We're more interested in how you go deeper on discovery than how fast you can prototype.

Required Skills:

• A track record shipping design for specialized B2B users in regulated or technically deep domains — medtech, legal tech, compliance, industrial, developer tools, finance.
• A research-led orientation. You can show — not describe — a JTBD or persona knowledge base you've built, and walk us through a product decision it shaped.
• Hands-on experience leading a design team through the AI-native transition, with a perspective that goes beyond "we prototype faster now."
• Currently a design lead or strong #2 at a Series B/C B2B SaaS company. Early-stage operating experience is essential.
• Willing and able to travel to Vienna every 4–6 weeks, with heavier travel in the first three months.

Logistics:

This role can be Boston, MA or Vienna, AT based, with travel between offices every 4–6 weeks. Expect heavier travel during your first three months as you get to know the team and the work. The role reports to the Head of Product and partners closely with our CTO and product leadership.

If this sounds like the right next step, we'd love to hear from you.

Keywords: design, ui, ux, ui/ux, user interface, user experience, design, lead

Watch your engineering work come to life in landmark projects around the world when you partner with Syska Hennessy Group! As a global leader in consulting, engineering, and commissioning services, we specialize in highly technical buildings and the systems that bring them to life. We are seeking an experienced Senior Fire Protection/Fire Life Safety Engineer to join our team in our corporate office located in Boston, MA.

Our dynamic work environment provides the optimal setting to take your career to the next level. From our supportive culture, diverse workforce, and competitive compensation, to our flexible work schedules and fun social events, it’s everything you’ll need for an exciting, challenging, and rewarding career.

Job Responsibilities:

As a Fire Protection/Fire Life Safety Engineer, you will perform design engineering and provide system design support by working closely with all MEP disciplines to assure well-coordinated designs. This dynamic role will also involve consulting and interfacing with clients, architects, vendors, contractors, and authorities having jurisdiction. 

Additional Responsibilities:

• Conduct field surveys, system assessments, and system commissioning
• Attend coordination meetings and job sites
• Perform calculations under Supervising Engineer/Designer
• Produce clear and concise drawings consistent with client requirements and firm organization format and drawing standards
• Apply Codes and Standards to all designs (including working drawings and specifications)
• Conducting peer reviews and QA/QC oversight
• Perform code interpretation
• Assist in business development by expanding on current client relationships, cross selling Syska services and by attending industry and clients events

Job Requirements:

This is a great opportunity for a Fire Protection/Fire Life Safety Engineer with a large variety of facility types including Commercial, Industrial, Institutional, and Governmental buildings experience, as well as experience in critical facilities, storage facilities. In addition to your engineering experience, to succeed in this role, you will need a solid knowledge of fire protection systems design for various projects with the ability to communicate design concepts via drawings and specifications.  Experience in Fire Alarm, Standpipe/Sprinkler, VESDA, and Clean Agent system design is required; along with experience in the development of Fire Safety Plans; Fire, Smoke & Egress Modeling.

Engineer requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree from accredited college or university in Fire Protection, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering discipline
• Minimum of 8+ years field experience with previous experience in Fire Protection and Fire Alarm System and FLS design.
• Knowledge of ICC, NFPA and Local codes and standards. Knowledge of NYC codes preferred
• NICET certification in Fire Alarm or Fire Protection systems, preferred, 
• Current P.E. or Fire Protection P.E.is REQUIRED.
• The ability to achieve security clearance from Federal Government (project specific)
• The ability to work independently or in a team environment effectively in a fast –paced, and challenging environment
• Open to traveling to various project locales
• Experience in using AutoCAD-MEP, and REVIT to develop designs
• Possesses strong interpersonal relationship skills and strong communications skills both verbal, written and presentation

Benefits:

As a Fire Protection Senior Engineer with Syska Hennessy Group, you will be part of a global firm with an amazing history! We are committed to being the best, to advancing engineering design practice, and to supporting our clients with integrity. To make all of that happen, we rely on the talent, drive, enthusiasm, and the total job satisfaction of the great people who work here.

As a member of our highly collaborative team, we provide you with a flexible benefits package that reflects our respect for your workplace contributions, professional goals, and personal priorities. The personal benefits program at Syska Hennessy Group includes:

• Robust, comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental benefit plans
• 401(k) plan with a generous employer matching program
• Training and professional development courses
• Professional development incentive bonuses
• Dynamic Employee Resource Groups
• Competitive Paid Time Off (PTO) policy
• Transit/parking employer stipend
• ½ day work from home Fridays all year long

At Syska, we have cultivated a community that supports learning and provides guidance for professional development and further our culture of excellence. We promote an environment that is committed to embedding diversity and equality into the core of our business and culture. We empower our employees so they can take ownership for their work and development and strive to continually improve themselves and our firm. We rely on the talent, drive, enthusiasm and the total job satisfaction of the great people who work here for our success! Syska is a place where you can build an exceptional career and have a lasting impact on the world.

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