Lead Product Designer in Wilmslow

Job description

Lead Product Designer

Location: Wilmslow or WFH | Full-time

Overview

We're seeking an experienced Lead Product Designer to help define the future of our growing B2B SaaS platforms across Health & Safety, HR, and Compliance. You’ll bring clarity to complexity, raise the bar for quality, and support the personal and professional growth of our design team.

As our most senior hands-on designer, you'll shape meaningful product experiences while also nurturing team craft, guiding design rituals, and improving design operations. You’ll work closely with product managers, engineers, and researchers - blending leadership with end-to-end execution.

What You’ll Do

Product Design

• Lead design across key strategic initiatives from discovery through delivery.
• Translate complex business workflows into elegant, user-focused experiences - with a mobile-first mindset where it matters most.
• Own and evolve interaction design, information architecture, and visual design.
• Run collaborative workshops to align stakeholders across product and engineering.

Design Leadership

• Act as a mentor, coach, and role model to designers across the team.
• Facilitate weekly design critiques and 1:1s to strengthen quality and consistency.
• Champion design thinking to guide how we prioritise, experiment, and build.

Design Operations & Systems

• Partner with the Group Product Director to evolve our cross-platform design system.
• Improve design QA, cross-functional collaboration, and handoff workflows.
• Help scale and streamline our design processes with tooling, tokens, and systems.

Research & Validation

• Collaborate with UX researchers to define problems and validate solutions.
• Translate insights into meaningful product improvements.
• Foster a culture of evidence-based decision-making.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of product design experience, with at least 1–2 years in a lead or senior role.
• Proven ability to lead and deliver complex initiatives end-to-end.
• Excellent UX and UI skills with a clear, user-centred rationale.
• A mobile-first approach to design, with sensitivity to real-world usage patterns across devices and contexts.
• A track record of mentoring designers and influencing team culture.
• Systems thinking: able to zoom out to shape design standards and zoom in on execution.
• Strong communication skills, especially when working with non-design stakeholders.
• Proficiency with Figma, Jira, and working within design systems.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Wilmslow

Type of Contract

Part-time jobs

Published at

14-08-2025

Profession type

Design / Fashion

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English