Lead Product Designer

Lead Product Designer

(Permanent, full-time) - UK based citizens only, this opportunity does not offer sponsorship.

Salary expectation: £90,000-£95,000 (depending on experience) + bonus + benefits

Location: London, hybrid 1-2 days per week

Reporting into: Director of Product / Head of Design

Direct reports: 3-5 designers

Essential experience

• Outstanding communication and leadership skills, with the ability to turn data and user insights into compelling stories to influence stakeholders and motivate your team • Excellent senior stakeholder management and negotiation skills
• Experience as a Growth Product Designer, working in collaboration with Marketing on new customer acquisitions
• Experience end-to-end product design development in responsive web and native apps, with extensive e-commerce experience
• Experience navigating ambiguity and make decisions across intricate projects and diverse teams, thriving in fast-paced environments.
• Proven track record of making a big impact through data-driven experimentation, and customer insights
• Proven track record in leading design teams of 3 or more direct reports
• Excellent skills in recruiting, onboarding and developing product designers, providing clear direction, support and continuous feedback.
• Excellent understanding of Design systems to ensure accessibility, scalability, localisation and branding

☁ What your role will look like

• Work closely with the Head of Product design to lead the design vision, strategy, and execution across the Growth teams
• Own the Growth KPIs, and help the teams understand how to impact them through experimentation, customer insights and data
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, Data Analysts, Marketing and operational teams to lead growth initiatives that bring incremental new customers whilst improving the overall customer conversion experience
• Collaborate closely with Research to support discovery and testing, utilise Service Design methodologies to enhance omnichannel experiences through the different services, products and systems.
• Be a strong communicator, able to liaise with different stakeholders to understand their roadmaps and requirements, and influence them with clear rationale and data
• Work with our design language system to raise product design standards, adoption of the system, and evolve the brands
• Ensure our products are accessible, inclusive and localised following our standards.
• Mentor and coach the Product designers in the Growth team.