Lead Product Designer – Up to £80,000

What you’ll do:
* Deliver best in class, innovative user experiences working directly with design leadership, product leads, engineering leads, and various business stakeholders
* Extensive experience working on a live digital product at scale, with both engineers, product/project managers and Researchers
* Use core information architecture and interaction design skills to take product design deliverables through a full project lifecycle
* Set clear expectations and direction for the Designers in your Products streams
* Communicate effectively with senior management, stakeholders, Product, Engineering and/or direct reports
* Lead workshops to drive alignment, clarity and shared understanding with stakeholders and product team members alike
* Map journeys and flows, while also developing interactions, from rough sketches through to market-ready product experiences
* Design and maintain the components, interactions, and transitions, design patterns as part of a Design System or component library to ensure quality, consistency and ensure efficient collaboration with developers
* Bring visions to life by creating engaging, hi-fidelity prototypes, paying particular attention to micro-interactions, motion and animation to enhance the user experience

What you will bring to the team:
* Advanced skills in industry-leading design and prototyping software, i.e Figma
* Experience working in Lean, Agile or matrix organisations
* Have an excellent understanding of human-centred design and Design Thinking principles and methodologies to create intuitive interfaces and interactions
* You are able to work at different levels of fidelity from sketching through to designs, sharing ideas early and refining them with others
* You’re curious – looking to develop a deep understanding of our data and what motivates our users and shapes their behaviour
* You enjoy sharing and collaborating on your thinking with engineers, stakeholders and other people in the business to ensure your work is robust and effective
* Effective at communicating design strategy, rationale and justifying design decisions within the team and to stakeholders
* A track record of managing, mentoring and developing people to achieve their potential