Lead Product Designer

The Lead Product Designer will own design outcomes across the Player Experience cluster, ensuring quality and coherence in design decisions. This role also involves line managing and coaching designers while contributing hands-on to design work.

Responsibilities

• Owning design outcomes across the Player Experience cluster, leading work spanning player setup, playback experiences, core app foundations, and content discovery
• Line managing and coaching designers across multiple squads, setting clear expectations, supporting progression, managing performance, and developing future design leaders
• Operating as a player–coach, spending a portion of your time hands-on designing within the Content Discovery squad
• Setting and evolving design direction in close partnership with the Head of Design and other Lead and Principal Product Designers
• Making design decisions under ambiguity, navigating competing priorities, differing opinions, and real-world constraints
• Working closely with Heads of Product, Engineering, Brand and more to prioritise effectively, resolve tension, turn complex and open ended problems into clear actionable plans

Requirements

• Extensive experience as a product designer and design leader, with proven people leadership responsibility for setting direction, managing performance, and supporting the growth of other designers
• A proven track record of leading multiple designers and complex problem spaces simultaneously, balancing hands-on contribution with oversight, prioritisation, and decision-making
• Strong experience designing across native apps and web, with an understanding of how experiences need to adapt across platforms while remaining consistent
• A consistently high bar for visual and interaction design, paired with strong discovery, problem-framing, and research collaboration skills

Key Skills

• Strong experience designing across native apps and web, with an understanding of how experiences need to adapt across platforms while remaining consistent
• A consistently high bar for visual and interaction design, paired with strong discovery, problem-framing, and research collaboration skills
• Strong people leadership skills, including goal setting, feedback, performance conversations, and coaching others through growth, uncertainty, and change

Benefits

• Flexibility: Hybrid working - expectation of 1 day a week on average in our London office
• Financial: Receive Income Protection, covering long term sickness for up to 2 years and company sick pay that increases with length of service
• Health & Wellness: Private Medical Insurance via Aviva, or a Wellbeing Allowance to be used for memberships, subscriptions, treatment or therapy
• Time Off: 25 days of holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Helping Families: Variety of family-friendly leave, including enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, fertility, pregnancy loss and carers leave