Role overview

A senior design leadership role within an in-house Experience Design team, focused on a consumer property platform. The position leads a team of three Product Designers, owns the design vision for two core product pillars, and partners with senior product and engineering leaders to shape long-term domain direction. It is primarily a leadership and craft role, with hands‑on contribution where it meaningfully advances the work.

Responsibilities

Line-manage, coach, and develop a team of three Product Designers, setting clear goals and providing ongoing feedback to support growth.
Define and own the design vision for the Move and Home pillars, aligning with broader product strategy and business goals.
Maintain a high bar for craft and quality across the team's output, applying consistent judgement and taste at scale.
Drive design system contribution and adoption, ensuring consistency and reuse in coordination with peer design leads and brand.
Conduct strategic research to surface user problems and opportunities, and translate them into a long-term product vision.
Influence direction across disciplines and seniority levels through clear communication in meetings, written artefacts, and async formats.
Champion inclusive and accessible design practice, and represent the design function both internally and externally.

Requirements

Proven experience managing and developing product designers.
Strong design craft, taste, and judgement, with the ability to hold a quality bar across others' work.
Deep expertise in design systems, interaction patterns, and scalable frameworks.
Familiarity with the design challenges of complex multi-sided platforms or marketplaces.
Strategic thinking that balances business and commercial goals with user needs and long-term vision.
Strong collaboration, communication, and storytelling skills, including the ability to influence without formal authority.
A growth mindset, curiosity about new tools and approaches, and an open, proactive stance toward using AI responsibly in design workflows.

Nice to have

Experience informing domain strategy by weighing risks, trends, and trade-offs against commercial metrics.
Track record of contributing to brand and design system standards across a wider organisation.

Benefits and work setup

Hybrid working: two days per week in a central London office (Soho) and three days from home.
Report into the Lead Product Design Manager for Consumer and operate as part of the Experience Design leadership team.
An organisational approach that treats AI as a tool for creating more space for the human side of product work, with an expectation to explore it proactively.

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