Head of Product Design

Head of Product Design ABOUT HALTER At Halter, we’re on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run the most productive and sustainable operations. Our customers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional practices. Imagine watching 500 cattle stand up and walk calmly towards their next break? No quad bikes, no dogs, no fences. Just a group of cattle walking at their own pace. People say it looks like magic. Our customers are revolutionizing grazing with Halter. It's changing lives and transforming an industry. People join Halter to do meaningful work. By joining us you’ll be solving challenging problems within a talented team and a culture built for high performance. Our team out-think, out-work and out-care. We’re committed to delivering real change in the world - this isn’t easy, and in truth, we love that it’s hard. We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Founders Fund https://foundersfund.com, Bessemer Venture Partners https://www.bvp.com/, BOND, https://www.bondcap.com/ DCVC https://www.dcvc.com/, Blackbird https://www.blackbird.vc/, Promus Ventures https://www.promusventures.com/, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures https://www.icehouseventures.co.nz/?utm_term=icehouse%20ventures&utm_campaign=Brand+Keywords&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=4064636360&hsa_cam=16902737884&hsa_grp=134004309485&hsa_ad=592971340272&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=kwd-1082530126230&hsa_kw=icehouse%20ventures&hsa_mt=b&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2v-gBhC1ARIsAOQdKY0J0DepRVFDmjQlAkJPbZuQnLSA5UVzUzOXYiPxkjX-SeVa513_BhkaAr-MEALw_wcB. To find out more, visit our LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/halter-limited & Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifeathalter/. DESIGN THE OPERATING SYSTEM FOR THE WORLD'S FARMERS For hundreds of years, moving livestock meant physical fences, quad bikes, and hours of hard labour. Halter aims to replace all of that with a collar and a phone. Farmers open an app, draw a boundary, and their herd moves calmly, on their own, to exactly where they're supposed to be. Behind that simplicity sits real-time GPS, satellite connectivity, and animal behaviour monitoring running across thousands of farms, every hour of every day. To a farmer, it genuinely feels like magic. To anyone who's spent time understanding the industry, it's a fundamental shift in how farming works. And thousands of farmers across New Zealand and the US rely on it every single day to run their operations. We're looking for a Head of Product Design to define and own the future of that experience. Not a design manager who reviews work in Figma. A leader who sets the vision, raises the craft bar, partners at the executive level, and still sweats the details — because at Halter, the details are the difference between a farmer trusting the product completely, or not. WHAT MAKES HALTER'S DESIGN CHALLENGE UNIQUE Halter is real-world design in the deepest sense. Our product is a digital twin of land and animals, guiding livestock, modelling farms, monitoring behaviour in real time, 365 days a year. It's used outdoors, often by farmers who may be highly data-fluent, or for whom this is the first time technology has played a real role in their business. Designing across that range is genuinely hard and genuinely rare. Our farmers are operating in the field, often in bad weather, making real decisions about their animals. When the experience is clear, they trust it. When it isn't, they don't have time to figure it out. Getting it right takes real craft, real empathy, and real time spent with customers. There's no template for most of what we do. We tackle greenfield design challenges constantly and we love that. Our willingness to push into new territory is what keeps us ahead. We move fast, test in the field, and learn from seeing real things used by real farmers in real conditions. Nothing replicates that. You'll need gumboots. What you'll own ... (truncated, view full listing at source)