Head of Design, Canary Technologies
$250-290k
This figure includes a competitive base salary and a performance-based bonus that is paid quarterly
Providing hospitality technology
Be an early applicant
Providing hospitality technology
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$250-290k
This figure includes a competitive base salary and a performance-based bonus that is paid quarterly
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help hoteliers thrive through innovative software solutions.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years in Product Design with 3+ years leading teams directly. Experience operating in B2B or B2B2C SaaS preferred
- Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end systems thinking, exceptional product craft, and shipped work at scale across web and mobile is essential
- Proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain diverse design talent. Strength in feedback, coaching, and org-building
- Strong partner to Product and Engineering. Comfortable in ambiguity, rapid iteration, and enterprise constraints
- You are inspired by companies like Rippling, Linear, or Stripe where systematic design creates product clarity
- Fluency in design systems, accessibility, UX research methods, and experimentation. Familiarity with analytics tools
- Excited by the idea that your design system becomes the rulebook for AI agents building and operating UI
- Meticulous, opinionated, and able to hold the line on standards while moving fast
- Comfortable being both hands-on (Figma, tokens, specs) and strategic (principles, governance, cross-pod alignment)
What the job involves
- Canary Technologies is hiring a Head of Design to own the design system, information hierarchy, and interaction principles that govern every surface of Canary's platform — for human users and AI agents alike
- Most design system roles are about consistency for humans
- This one is about building the design language that AI agents obey
- You're not just making a dashboard pretty — you're defining the rules of interaction for a platform where AI is increasingly the operator
- That's a new kind of design leadership, and we want someone who sees it that way
- Canary's product surface is expanding fast across checkin, messaging, upsells, voice, and more
- We need someone obsessive about consistency, hierarchy, and systematic design who can establish principles that scale — not just across screens, but across a future where AI agents are primary users of our interfaces
- The design system you build won't just guide human designers; it will be the contract that AI follows
- Define and enforce a unified design system across all Canary product surfaces — components, spacing, typography, color, layout patterns, and page-level templates
- Establish clear information hierarchy standards so every page communicates priority, status, and action with zero ambiguity
- Build design principles rigid enough to be programmatically enforced and flexible enough to serve diverse hospitality workflows
- Create specifications precise enough that AI coding agents can generate UI that meets your bar without human review
- Audit existing surfaces ruthlessly and drive convergence toward a single coherent system
- Partner closely with engineering and product to make the design system the source of truth — not a side artifact
- Think deeply about how AI agents (voice, chat, autonomous) interact with and present Canary's UI, and design for that as a first-class use case
Our take
Embracing the modern era, Canary Technologies is dedicated to revolutionising the hotel industry through digital transformation. Pioneering the field with its mobile web-based Guest Management System and Digital Authorisation solutions, Canary aims to rid hotels of outdated technology, enhancing revenue streams by boosting staff productivity and delivering superior guest experiences.
Co-founders Harman and SJ, childhood friends turned business partners, bring a unique blend of expertise to the table, drawing from their extensive background in both hospitality and technology sectors. With the industry already on an upward trajectory, the post-pandemic landscape has further fueled the demand for their solutions, particularly their contactless check-in and checkout offerings.
Despite competition in the sector, Canary has secured significant funding led by Insight Partners, enabling rapid expansion and talent acquisition to meet the burgeoning demand for its innovative solutions.
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Insights
59% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2025
$80m
SERIES D
Jun 2024
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $175.2m
Company benefits
- Our health insurance has you covered on day 1
- Flexible working hours
- Training and career development
- Regular team building events
- A travel stipend for when you stay at Canary hotels
- Internal promotions from within the team
- Kitchen stocked with fruit, snacks, coffee, and more
- We're a diverse and global team
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Harman Singh Narula
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded a custom printed apparel company, The Shirt Guys, LLC. Worked in strategy for Citigroup and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc, and as a Management Consultant for Bain & Company.
Satjot "SJ" Sawhney
(Co-Founder & President)Previously co-founded Mobibolt, Inc and Tapfame before serving as Head of Product at the hospitality technology startup, Stayful.
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