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Lead Product Designer

Zoopla 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom

Hybrid $80,000 - $110,000 Full-time Senior

The Lead Product Designer will drive design vision and execution across multiple product areas, starting with the future of Search. This role involves hands-on design leadership, mentoring the team, and partnering with senior stakeholders to shape product strategy and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of designers, setting the standard for quality, ownership and accountability
  • Drive design vision and execution across multiple product areas
  • Define opportunity areas, set design direction and ensure work delivers measurable impact
  • Champion design’s role in driving business outcomes, articulating the value of design investment to senior stakeholders
  • Design and oversee intuitive, high-quality journeys across web and mobile
  • Establish and evolve design patterns that create coherence across the product portfolio

Requirements

  • Significant experience designing digital products end-to-end in a product-led environment
  • Demonstrable leadership of design direction
  • Strong strategic product thinking
  • Ability to connect design decisions to customer outcomes, business metrics and long-term product vision
  • Expertise in user research methodologies and testing
  • Ability to think in systems, journeys and product ecosystems
  • Confident influencing at a senior level across product, engineering and business stakeholders
  • Experience facilitating workshops and strategic alignment sessions
  • Strong perspective on emerging technologies (including AI) and how they can transform customer experience, decision-making and product capability
  • Proficiency in design tools such as Figma or similar

Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave + additional leave benefits
  • Cycle to work and electric car schemes
  • Free Calm App membership
  • Enhanced Parental leave
  • Fertility Treatment Financial Support
  • Group Income Protection and private medical insurance
  • Gym on-site in London
  • 7.5% pension contribution by the company
  • Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary

Key Skills

Product design Design leadership Strategic product thinking User research User testing Design tools such as Figma Emerging technologies (including AI) Design systems Cross-functional collaboration Stakeholder management Communication skills Problem-solving abilities Leadership Mentoring Coaching Product ecosystems Journeys and touchpoints Customer experience Business outcomes Design patterns

About Zoopla

Hello, we’re Zoopla. We’re here to help people make intelligent decisions about their homes by digitising the home lifecycle. At Zoopla we know what a home is really worth. Our industry-leading data and powerful software make that clear. As a trusted partner on the journey, we strive to make the process of moving to home smoother. We think it’s just as important to feel at home, at work. We are building an inclusive, flexible, and results-led culture which supports challenging and rewarding careers. And we’re looking for ambitious people to join us.

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