Lead Product Designer

About ROLLER

ROLLER isn’t your average SaaS company. We operate globally across 30+ countries, powering millions of real-world experiences in the leisure and attractions industry. What we build doesn’t just live on a screen. It shows up in busy venues, peak weekends, and unforgettable moments for guests.

Our mission is simple but ambitious: help operators run better businesses while creating great guest experiences. That means solving complex, real-world problems across ticketing, point of sale, self-service, memberships, kiosks, and digital waivers, all at meaningful scale.

Just as importantly, it’s the people. We’re a team of 300+ smart, grounded, and genuinely passionate humans working across the globe. We care about quality, ownership, and doing work we’re proud of, without taking ourselves too seriously.

We’re growing fast, aiming high, and building something that matters. If you want to work on real problems, with real customers, alongside people who care deeply about their craft and impact, ROLLER is a great place to do it.

Why You'll Enjoy This Role

🎨 Design That Reaches 100+ Million Real Moments - Your work at ROLLER impacts over 100 million guest experiences every year. Families spending time together. Kids’ birthday parties. Team catch-ups. Once-in-a-lifetime experiences. What you design doesn’t just ship, it helps create moments people remember.

🧭 Impact at Real Scale, In the Real World - ROLLER powers venues in 30+ countries. Your design decisions show up in fast-moving, high-pressure environments where clarity and usability matter. This isn’t speculative or conceptual work. It ships, it’s used immediately, and the feedback loop is real.

🤝 A Genuine Seat at the Table - You’ll partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership to shape vision, navigate ambiguity, and make high-quality trade-offs. Design is expected to lead, not follow. Strong judgement, clear thinking, and the ability to challenge assumptions are valued here, not sidelined.

🧠 Complex Problems Worth Solving - From ecommerce and payments to on-site operations and guest flows, ROLLER sits at the intersection of digital and physical experiences. If you enjoy systems thinking, real constraints, and pragmatic trade-offs, you’ll find depth here.

🚀 The Chance to Raise the Bar - You’ll join a growing but still tight-knit design team, with real opportunity to shape standards, evolve design systems, and influence how design operates across the business. Your impact will be visible, lasting, and felt well beyond individual features.

Why You Want To Work With Us!

❤️ Loved by Customers - ROLLER is consistently highly rated on Capterra and G2, and trusted by leading operators worldwide. That doesn’t happen by accident. Customer obsession isn’t a value on a wall here, it’s embedded in how we prioritise, build, and measure success.

🏆 A Great Place People Choose To Stay - We’ve been Great Place to Work certified across multiple regions for several years running. That reflects a culture that values trust, autonomy, and growth, and an environment where high standards and psychological safety coexist.

💸 Competitive Package & Real Career Growth - We offer competitive compensation and benefits aligned to the level of ownership we expect. As ROLLER scales, so do the opportunities. People grow here by taking on bigger problems, broader scope, and greater responsibility. Progression is driven by impact and capability, not tenure, and strong performance is recognised and rewarded.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Lead Product Designer to lead design outcomes and people across a complex product domain at ROLLER.

This is a hands-on leadership role that blends high-quality design execution, people leadership, and strategic influence. You’ll be accountable for the impact, consistency, and quality of design work in your domain  and for growing the designers within it.

You’ll partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership to shape vision, guide teams through ambiguity, and ensure we’re solving the right problems for our customers and our business. This role has meaningful scope, autonomy, and influence, with clear ownership and room to lead.

In this role, you’ll split your time between:

• Hands-on design and complex problem solving
• Coaching and developing designers
• Influencing strategy, direction, and standards across teams

This role is based in Melbourne and offers a hybrid work approach, with our office located in South Melbourne.

What You'll Do

Design Leadership & Craft

• Partner with the Director of Product Design to shape and evolve ROLLER’s design vision in a fast-moving, scaling environment.
• Own design strategy and execution across a complex product domain or multiple high-impact initiatives, with a bias toward shipping, learning, and iteration.
• Set and uphold a high bar for usability, accessibility, coherence, and craft, without letting perfection block progress.
• Apply systems thinking to identify patterns, gaps, and opportunities across end-to-end experiences as the product surface area grows.
• Lead the creation of frameworks, flows, and high-fidelity solutions that are designed to ship, be tested in the real world, and improve over time.
• Explore and articulate product visions that balance ambition with pragmatism and align to clear customer and business outcomes.
• Make strong design judgements that optimise for impact, speed, and long-term value over process or ceremony.

People Leadership & Team Growth

• Lead, coach, and support a team of Product Designers in an environment where learning comes from delivery and feedback, not theory alone.
• Run effective 1:1s, provide clear and actionable feedback, and support individual growth through real ownership and responsibility.
• Set clear expectations, goals, and success criteria tied to outcomes, not activity.
• Foster a culture of trust, ownership, psychological safety, and continuous improvement as the team scales.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and performance development in partnership with Design leadership, helping build a team comfortable with change and growth.

Collaboration, Strategy & Influence

• Act as a strategic design partner to Product and Engineering leaders, contributing to decision-making early and often.
• Influence problem definition, prioritisation, and roadmaps through customer insight, design thinking, and a strong sense of what will move the needle.
• Facilitate workshops, critiques, and alignment sessions that drive clarity and momentum, not process for process’ sake.
• Communicate design rationale, trade-offs, and impact clearly to stakeholders, including executive leadership.
• Advocate for customer-centred decision-making while embracing the realities of scale, constraints, and rapid change.

Research, Testing & Insight

• Guide discovery efforts and coach designers to use research as a tool for direction, not delay.
• Ensure research leads to clear problem definitions, decisions, and shipped outcomes.
• Lead and contribute to the evolution of our design system, content strategy, and accessibility practices in ways that support speed and consistency at scale.
• Improve design processes, rituals, and documentation to help the team move faster as we grow.
• Champion inclusive, accessible, and content-led design as core to product quality and customer impact.

About You

At ROLLER, we look for designers with range and judgement. You’ll be comfortable working across research, service design, interaction design, system design, and content, and you’ll know where to go deep to create real impact. This role suits someone who is motivated, thoughtful, and highly capable, and who knows how to move fast without being reckless.

You are someone who:

• Is an experienced Product Designer with direct people leadership experience.
• Has formally led designers, not just supported them informally.
• Balances hands-on design work with coaching and leadership responsibilities.
• Operates confidently at both strategic and tactical levels.
• Doesn’t need perfect briefs to deliver meaningful outcomes.
• Understands the full product lifecycle and how design drives customer and business results.
• Has a solid understanding of front-end constraints (HTML/CSS) and designs solutions that are scalable and buildable.
• Thrives in fast-moving environments and brings a strong bias toward action, ownership, and learning through delivery.

You’ve likely:

• Led a small team of Product Designers or acted as a senior design lead within a team.
• Owned design outcomes across a complex product area or multiple initiatives.
• Influenced product strategy, prioritisation, and trade-offs.
• Shaped or evolved a design system in a scaling organisation.
• Partnered closely with Product and Engineering leadership to ship meaningful work.
• Facilitated workshops, critiques, and alignment sessions to drive clarity and momentum.
• Supported hiring, onboarding, or performance development.

Perks!

• You'll get to work on a category-leading product that customers love in a fun, high-growth industry! Check our Capterra and G2 reviews.
• 4 ROLLER Recharge days per year (When we hit our goals each quarter, we take a well-earned day off together to relax, recharge, and celebrate our wins).
• Engage in our 'Vibe Tribe' - led by our team members; you can contribute to company-wide initiatives directly. Regular events and social activities, fundraising & cause-related campaigns...you name it. We're willing to make it happen!
• Team Member Assistance Program to proactively support our team's health and wellbeing - access to coaching, education modules, weekly webinars, and more.
• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for primary carers and 4 weeks paid Parental Leave for secondary carers.
• Work with a driven, fun, and switched-on team that likes to raise the bar in all we do!
• Individual learning & development budget plus genuine career growth opportunities as we continue to expand!