Lead Product Designer
On-siteEdinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead large, ambiguous product initiatives spanning multiple teams, customer journeys, and business priorities. Connect design decisions directly to measurable customer and business outcomes by building trusted partnerships with Product, Engineering, Insights, and leadership to inform strategic decisions. Raise the quality bar across interaction design, visual design, accessibility, systems thinking, and execution while championing inclusive, user-centred practices. Establish and continuously improve AI-assisted design workflows that increase quality, speed, and consistency, ensuring outputs remain grounded in customer insight and responsible human judgment. Coach and mentor designers through feedback, pairing, and design critiques to elevate individual capability and team standards.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive experience shaping and designing complex digital experiences in cross-functional environments
- Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft, product thinking, systems thinking, measurable customer impact, and design leadership
- Deep expertise in user-centered design methodologies, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, accessibility, prototyping, design systems, and product strategy
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead cross-functional initiatives without formal authority
- Experience using qualitative research, quantitative data, and experimentation insight to shape product strategy and evaluate outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to coach designers, raise design quality, and influence design practice beyond individual project work
- Strong judgment in applying AI-assisted workflows and validating outputs across discovery, ideation, research synthesis, prototyping, documentation, and design execution
Desired Qualifications
- Working familiarity with front-end development concepts (particularly React Native, JavaScript or TypeScript, component-based UI, layout systems, and native mobile constraints)
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