Head of Design in London

Head of Design needed by a design-led product studio that’s entering an exciting new growth stage. Their work spans enterprise clients and scale-ups, with projects covering everything from intuitive SaaS products to brand, web, and GTM design. They build their own products, so have an engineering team too!

They’re now looking for a Head of Design: someone who can lead discovery workshops with clients, drive the concept work, and oversee a small design team (currently 4, with scope to grow). Based in London, staff do 3 days in the office per week. Anchor day is Wednesday. Leadership team come in on Monday and Thursdays. 20 people in the business.

Benefits include: 32 days holiday, 8-week “work from anywhere” allowance, health & wellbeing budget, quarterly bonuses, hardware budget, and a genuinely supportive, creative environment. They also do things like employee engagement surveys twice a year to improve the employee experience of working there. Sponsorship is not available.

The role involves splitting your time between hands-on design (60%) and leadership (40%). About 75% of your work will be product design, with 25% across brand, web, video, and GTM projects. You’ll lead discovery workshops with clients, direct concepts, mentor a team of designers and ensure projects run smoothly from idea to launch.

You’ll collaborate closely with strategy, product, and tech, balancing creativity with commercial awareness – from pitches and scoping to QA and delivery.

You’ll also:

• Lead & mentor a design team of 4–5, building culture & processes as we scale
• Shape concepts, craft interfaces, and guide projects from discovery to launch
• Oversee both product and brand work, ensuring quality and consistency
• Run client workshops, present confidently, and manage expectations
• Support pitches, identify opportunities for growth, and ensure profitability

The candidate should have a strong background in product design with thorough, end-to-end, UX-UI skills, as well as an eye for brand. Studio/agency experience, with exposure to enterprise SaaS and B2C products is required. You should be confident leading workshops, presenting work, and managing client expectations. Being commercially aware and comfortable with pitching, scoping, and ensuring profitability is essential.

We are looking for someone collaborative, humble, and keen to grow a diverse, high-performing team. Open to existing Heads of Design or perhaps a Lead-level Product Designer with management experience, ready to take the next step up.

This is a rare chance to join a business at a pivotal point, with genuine influence on both their creative output and the culture of the design team. If this sounds like you, then please apply with your CV AND PORTFOLIO asap, to stand the best chance of getting an interview!

We welcome those with alternative identities, backgrounds, and experiences. Our team includes parents, the self-taught, the university-educated, and people of a wide variety of nationalities, ages, and socio-economic backgrounds. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, and welcome those with alternative identities, backgrounds, and experiences to apply to be part of life at Zebra People. We are committed to a fair and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. We would be happy to meet any accommodation requests during the application or interview process, please just let us know.