Senior design capacity
for complex products.

Extra senior product design for enterprise teams building platforms, internal tools, and data-heavy products. We take complexity off your plate — so your team ships faster and users actually adopt.

Built for teams where
the product got complex

What we solve

At enterprise scale, the design problem is rarely a screen.

It is a workflow with four roles, a module nobody has modernized since 2019, and three teams shipping into the same product.

  • Add senior design capacity to overloaded product teams

  • Support multiple product streams and releases in parallel

  • Simplify complex workflows, roles, permissions and user journeys

  • Modernize mature and legacy products without disrupting development

  • Improve adoption of powerful but underused features

  • Unify fragmented experiences across modules, products and teams

  • Bring extra design into major releases and strategic initiatives

  • Turn business, technical and stakeholder requirements into clear UX

Where an enterprise engagement lands

We add senior design where an internal team cannot absorb the load this quarter — parallel streams, legacy modernization, cross-product consistency, and the releases that carry the most risk.

What an enterprise
engagement includes

The core of every engagement, before anything is tailored to your product.

Dedicated Design Lead

One senior lead continuously involved in your engagement, accountable for quality and for the direction the work takes.

Reserved and scalable capacity

Guaranteed access to extra design capacity when priorities shift, so a reprioritised quarter does not become a hiring problem.

Cross-product design expertise

A coherent experience across products, platforms and teams, rather than one module improved while the rest drift.

Growth and experimentation

Metric-driven UX for activation, conversion, adoption and retention, tied to the numbers your leadership already reports on.

Enterprise design system integration

We work within and extend your existing design ecosystem. No isolated solutions that someone has to reconcile later.

Added when
you need it

Optional, and priced into the proposal only if your engagement calls for it.

Production design QA

We review the implementation and what actually ships, not just the Figma file.

User research and validation

Research, usability testing and validation for the stretches when internal capacity is not available.

Strategic design advisory

Senior product and design expertise for the initiatives where the decision matters more than the output.

Independent UX audits

An outside expert view on usability, consistency and design debt, written to be acted on.

How an
engagement runs

From the first call to a weekly rhythm, with a pilot in between if you want one.

  1. Step 1

    Discovery call

    We map the complexity and the stakeholders

    And where it hurts: adoption, legacy, overload

  2. Step 2

    Tailored proposal

    Scope, team, timeline and price

    Built for your product, not from a template

  3. Step 3

    Optional pilot

    Start with one product stream or module

    De-risk the shape before a full engagement

  4. Step 4

    Ongoing partnership

    A weekly rhythm and dev-ready handoff

    A senior team inside your own process

Engagements
start at $20,000/month

Smaller than this? There are three other ways to work with us, listed further down the page.

Enterprise engagement

Every enterprise engagement is scoped to your product. Final pricing comes in a tailored proposal after a call. Three-month minimum, then cancel with 30 days notice.

From $20,000per month

Minimum three-month engagement, then cancel anytime with 30 days’ notice. All prices in USD / USDC. Trial and launch fees are credited toward your retainer.

Why enterprise teams
choose Glow

Senior team, no ramp-up

A design lead and senior designers who work inside your sprint cadence from the first week.

Complexity is the specialty

Platforms, internal tools, data-heavy products and legacy modernization — the work most teams route around.

Fluent in ROI

We tie design to the metrics your leadership already reports on, so the work can be defended upward.

Engineering-ready output

Dev-ready specs your team builds from without a round of back-and-forth to interpret them.

AI and SaaS fluency

Agent UX, LLM interfaces and complex SaaS. No learning on your budget and no onboarding on your category.

Frequently
asked questions

How is this different from a regular retainer?

Scale and reach. A Design Retainer is one senior designer, a lead and a project manager working on one product. An enterprise engagement is a larger team working across several product streams at once, with reserved capacity for the weeks when priorities move, and with the design lead answering to stakeholders rather than to a single product owner.

Scale and reach. A Design Retainer is one senior designer, a lead and a project manager working on one product. An enterprise engagement is a larger team working across several product streams at once, with reserved capacity for the weeks when priorities move, and with the design lead answering to stakeholders rather than to a single product owner.

We already have an in-house design team — why you?

Because this is additional senior capacity, not a replacement. Most of our enterprise work sits alongside an internal team: parallel streams they do not have the people for, a legacy module nobody has time to modernize, or a specialist stretch like a design system rebuild. Your team keeps the product; we take the load it cannot absorb this quarter.

Because this is additional senior capacity, not a replacement. Most of our enterprise work sits alongside an internal team: parallel streams they do not have the people for, a legacy module nobody has time to modernize, or a specialist stretch like a design system rebuild. Your team keeps the product; we take the load it cannot absorb this quarter.

Do you work within our existing design system?

Yes — we work inside it and extend it. Delivering an isolated solution that someone later has to reconcile with your system is the opposite of useful, and at enterprise scale it is what turns a redesign into design debt.

Yes — we work inside it and extend it. Delivering an isolated solution that someone later has to reconcile with your system is the opposite of useful, and at enterprise scale it is what turns a redesign into design debt.

How do you handle compliance and security-heavy products?

We have designed in fintech and healthcare, where the requirements come before the interface does. We treat them as constraints to design within rather than as obstacles, and we work to whatever your review process requires — including accessibility standards, which enterprise procurement increasingly asks for in writing.

We have designed in fintech and healthcare, where the requirements come before the interface does. We treat them as constraints to design within rather than as obstacles, and we work to whatever your review process requires — including accessibility standards, which enterprise procurement increasingly asks for in writing.

How do you measure ROI?

Against the metrics your leadership already reports on. We agree at the start which numbers the work is supposed to move — adoption, conversion, task completion, support load — and we report against those, rather than against a count of screens delivered.

Against the metrics your leadership already reports on. We agree at the start which numbers the work is supposed to move — adoption, conversion, task completion, support load — and we report against those, rather than against a count of screens delivered.

Can we start small?

Yes. Most engagements begin with an optional pilot on one product stream or one module. It gives both sides a real piece of work to judge before anyone commits to the full scope.

Yes. Most engagements begin with an optional pilot on one product stream or one module. It gives both sides a real piece of work to judge before anyone commits to the full scope.

Who owns the work?

You do, from day one. Files, source and system, with no clause that keeps any of it with us.

You do, from day one. Files, source and system, with no clause that keeps any of it with us.