Lead Product Designer (Belfast)

Lead product design and provide design leadership while remaining actively involved in delivery. Ensure design is embedded early in product thinking and delivery, supporting the development of design capability.

Responsibilities

• Lead product design and provide design leadership
• Take ownership of product design direction while remaining actively involved in delivery
• Own and evolve the end-to-end product design and experience vision across mobile and web
• Translate product strategy and customer needs into clear, intuitive journeys and interfaces
• Provide clear design direction and ensure consistency, quality and usability across the product
• Balance strategic thinking with hands-on design contribution, designing, prototyping and iterating where it adds the most value
• Embed strong design practice
• Establish and maintain strong design practices across research, discovery, testing and iteration
• Ensure design is embedded early in product thinking and delivery, not added late
• Support and develop design capability, setting clear expectations for quality, collaboration and outcomes
• Continuously review and improve how design work is delivered as the product and team grow
• Act as a senior design voice within Product
• Represent design confidently in cross-functional and senior product discussions
• Help frame design decisions in terms of customer impact, trade-offs and delivery implications
• Be accountable for moving design decisions forward and ensuring they result in shipped outcomes, not just concepts or artefacts
• Contribute actively to product discussions around sequencing, priorities and trade-offs
• Be outcome-driven, customer-led and empathetic

Requirements

• Proven experience leading product design and UX in a SaaS or platform environment
• Typically 8–10+ years’ experience, or equivalent
• Comfortable operating as a senior designer who combines design leadership with hands-on delivery
• Strong collaboration skills with Product and Engineering at senior level
• Strong customer empathy, with the ability to design for users who care deeply but have limited time
• Comfortable evolving existing ideas and direction based on insight, delivery and learning
• Experience designing for complex workflows, multi-persona products or compliance-heavy environments is a strong advantage
• A genuine interest in sport — particularly football — and an appreciation of the role grassroots clubs play in their communities

Benefits

• Hybrid work model with 3 days in the office
• Opportunity to work on a product that genuinely impacts communities and volunteers
• Collaborative, product-led culture
• Flexibility built in

Key Skills