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Lead Product Designer

Thoughtworks Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)

Remote Full-time Senior

Lead the design and development of digital products from ideation to iterative development while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Ensure quality across product touchpoints and champion continuous improvement of design practices.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and development of digital products from ideation and concept through to iterative development
  • Ensure quality across product touchpoints through consistent and attractive visual design guidelines, accessible design system components, and an adherence to best practice UX and interaction design principles
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, developing a shared understanding of user and customer jobs, journeys, and needs through research, testing, and synthesis
  • Be the primary bridge between design, technology, and business teams, ensuring your vision is seamlessly executed in collaboration with developers and other stakeholders
  • Champion the continuous improvement of design practices by mentoring your team, facilitating knowledge sharing, and running workshops or feedback sessions

Requirements

  • Rich experience designing digital products and interface solutions from scoping and concept through to scalable delivery
  • Strong foundations in user experience and interaction design principles and heuristics
  • Exceptional visual design skills with a strong eye for detail in colour, layout, typography, and motion
  • Experience creating programme-wide design guidelines, and collaborating with design and development partners on modular design system components
  • Comfortable with trial and error, embracing feedback, and using prototyping to explore new ideas
  • Expertise in working closely with business and tech teams to bring real-world design solutions to life

Key Skills

  • UX design
  • User experience
  • Interaction design
  • Visual design
  • Design systems
  • Prototyping
  • User research
  • Usability testing
  • A/B testing
  • Design thinking
  • User-centered design
  • Agile methodologies
  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • Lean
  • Service design
  • Information architecture
  • Wireframing
  • User interviews
  • Surveys
  • Analytics
  • Data analysis
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Mentorship
  • Problem-solving
  • Time management
  • Prioritization
  • Adaptability
  • Flexibility
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Stakeholder management
  • Influencing
  • Negotiation
  • Strategic thinking
  • Creativity
  • Innovation

Benefits

  • Learning & Development opportunities
  • Interactive tools
  • Numerous development programs
  • Team support for career growth
  • Empowerment for continuous learning

About Thoughtworks

We are a global technology consultancy that delivers extraordinary impact by blending design, engineering and AI expertise. For 30 years, our commitment to design-led thinking, engineering excellence and innovation means we prioritize people, build teams with strong technical foundations and embed AI into every step of the process – not just as a tool but as a mindset. It’s this approach that sets us apart, sparks bold ideas and empowers us to drive real, lasting innovation. We’re not preparing for the future – we’re defining it.

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