Lead Product Designer (Analytics) (m/f/d) in Manchester

Are you looking to drive the future of product design and shape meaningful, data-driven experiences for customers across the globe? We’re seeking a Lead Product Designer to set direction, raise quality, and lead the design of complex, insight-rich product areas within Awin. You’ll take a leadership role within the UX team, responsible for defining vision, elevating standards, and empowering designers to deliver scalable, high-impact solutions. Working closely with Product, Engineering, and Data teams, you’ll ensure complex data models and analytics capabilities are translated into intuitive, actionable user experiences.

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Driving human-centred design across multiple product areas, including data-intensive and analytics-led experiences
• Shaping product vision and strategy in collaboration with cross-functional leadership, identifying opportunities to improve end-to-end journeys
• Translating complex data models and technical structures into clear, usable interfaces, dashboards, and visualisations
• Defining best practices for data visualisation, filtering, reporting, and insight communication
• Leading strategic discovery and design workshops to align teams around problems, opportunities, and measurable outcomes
• Directing the creation of high-quality design outputs – journeys, wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity designs – with a strong focus on usability and impact
• Setting design quality standards and fostering a culture of critique and continuous improvement across the design team
• Mentoring a team of Product Designers: providing feedback, coaching and improving design maturity
• Partnering with Engineering and Product to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery of design solutions
• Driving adoption and evolution of our design system, ensuring scalable and consistent design across products
• Communicating design rationale and decisions clearly through storytelling and stakeholder engagement
• Advocating for design thinking and user research practices throughout the organisation

Your Skills:

• Significant experience as a Senior or Lead Product Designer with a strong portfolio of strategic and hands-on design work
• Proven leadership experience: setting direction and mentoring designers
• Deep understanding of human-centred design, UX best practices, and interaction design principles
• Strong experience designing data-rich products, including dashboards, analytics platforms, or reporting tools, including UI design of data visualisation components
• Ability to interpret and challenge complex data models, working effectively with data engineers and analysts
• Strong grasp of data visualisation principles and best practices for communicating insight clearly and accurately
• Strategic thinker with the ability to zoom out to the big picture, while also diving into the detail when needed
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working closely with product managers, engineers, data specialists, researchers, and content designers
• Comfortable facilitating workshops, design critiques, and stakeholder sessions to drive alignment and action
• Fluent in design tools (e.g. Figma) and experienced in working within agile product environments
• Passion for coaching and enabling others to do their best work in a positive, inclusive, and high-performing team culture

Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture. Like all businesses, we’ve had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings our colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities. Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members. We champion uniqueness and authenticity; this is who we are at our core. Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

Awin is part of the Axel Springer group. Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal development.