Lead Product Designer in Manchester

Responsibilities

• Own the design vision and execution for a product domain. Translate strategic direction into the most ambiguous, cross-cutting, or strategically important pieces of design work.
• Set the craft bar through your own output. The work you ship is the reference point for what good looks like in your area.
• Own the cross-cutting design problems: patterns across multiple features, flows across multiple surfaces, the coherence of the domain's experience as a whole.
• Mentor and raise the bar of the designers around you - through critique, pairing, and modelling what excellent design looks like.
• Drive AI thinking strategically — both in your own workflow and in what we ship to users.

You’ll have a strong view on what makes a good AI feature in this domain vs a gimmicky one.

• Drive roadmap conversations alongside their product and engineering counterparts, not respond to them.
• Test strategy by shipping, moving at pace, including on strategic work.

Requirements

• 8+ years of Product/UX Design experience, with a track record at senior IC level.
• Saa S or complex product experience is strongly preferred.
• You can point to design work you've shipped where you wrote the success measure upfront and read the result after release.
• You understand how the products you've worked on make money and you've made trade-offs informed by that.
• Comfortable using AI across your workflow and equally comfortable thinking strategically about AI in the products you design - what makes a good AI feature, what the failure modes are, what to build now vs later.
• Your work is exemplary and you can articulate it clearly enough to teach. You have views on interaction quality, hierarchy, motion, microcopy - and you can defend them.
• Comfortable as a peer at the table with product and engineering counterparts in your domain. Drive direction; don't wait for it.
• Open to flex - If you've line-managed before, or want to take on one or two direct reports alongside the IC work, we're open to that conversation.
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