Senior/Lead Product Designer (Permanent)
Waracle 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior/Lead Product Designer will own end-to-end design for complex initiatives and ensure solutions align with business goals and technical feasibility. They will lead multidisciplinary teams, collaborate with stakeholders, and mentor junior designers.
Responsibilities
- Drive Design Excellence: Lead interaction design and define visual directions that align with strategic brand visions
- Champion Inclusive Design: Lead accessibility audits and define custom requirements to ensure products work for everyone
- Strategic Leadership: Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, leading workshops and shaping project visions from the top down
- Scaling Systems: Maintain and evolve comprehensive design systems to ensure consistency and efficiency across platforms
- Collaborate & Mentor: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior designers, fostering a culture of continuous learning
- Data-Driven Iteration: Use analytics, research, and A/B testing to refine designs and improve user experiences
Requirements
- Proven experience leading complex product design initiatives from concept through to implementation
- Extensive experience in Product Design, including time in a Senior or Lead role, ideally within a digital consultancy or agency environment
- Strong end-to-end product thinking, with the ability to define and lead design strategy from discovery through to launch
- Deep UX/UI expertise across research, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping (e.g. Figma)
- Demonstrated ability to define, govern, and scale design systems and visual language
- Strong understanding of technical feasibility and constraints, enabling effective collaboration with engineering teams
- Confident client-facing experience, including leading workshops and presenting to senior stakeholders
- Excellent leadership, communication, and mentorship skills, with experience developing and guiding design talent
Key Skills
- Product Design
- UX/UI expertise
- Research
- Information architecture
- Interaction design
- Visual design
- Prototyping (e.g. Figma)
- Leadership
- Communication
- Mentorship
Benefits
- Opportunity to work with a diverse, smart, curious, and ambitious community of specialists in technology-driven transformation
- Chance to make a significant impact by translating complex problems into clear, usable, and inclusive digital solutions
- Collaborative and dynamic work environment
- Professional development and growth opportunities
About Waracle
Waracle creates digital products trusted by millions of people. We are a team of 200+ strategists, designers and developers expert in creating digital products for enterprise clients in Health, Financial Services, Energy and the Public Sector. From business case to discovery, new product build to existing product optimisation - Waracle is a truly end-to-end partner. We aspire to ensure that all our team members "Do great work, have fun... and go home happy!"
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