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Product Designer - Custom Engineering

Pencil Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)

Remote Full-time Senior

You will lead the design of the core Editor experience, focusing on strategy, execution, and the integration of AI-driven features. You will collaborate with engineering and product teams to simplify complex enterprise workflows and ensure scalable, high-quality product solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Design end-to-end experiences for enterprise integrations, including workflows that connect Pencil with external systems such as DAMs, CMSs, and ad platforms
  • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Client Delivery teams to translate complex client requirements into clear, usable product experiences
  • Simplify technical concepts like APIs, data syncing, permissions, and system mappings into intuitive user interfaces and flows
  • Support the design of reusable patterns and frameworks for integrations, helping turn one-off client solutions into scalable product capabilities
  • Work across multiple client projects, balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term platform consistency
  • Collaborate with engineers to ensure designs are feasible, scalable, and aligned with integration architecture and constraints
  • Contribute to the evolution of the product by identifying common patterns across custom projects and feeding them back into the core experience

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience designing digital products
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating the ability to simplify complex systems, workflows, or technical concepts into clear user experiences
  • Experience working on integrations, APIs, or products that connect with external systems is highly valued
  • Strong systems thinking, with the ability to see patterns across different problems and design reusable solutions
  • Comfortable working in ambiguous, client-driven environments where requirements evolve and constraints are real
  • Proven ability to collaborate closely with engineers, with an understanding of technical constraints and system design
  • Ability to balance speed and quality, delivering pragmatic solutions without losing sight of long-term consistency
  • Highly proficient in Figma, using it to communicate flows, edge cases, and interaction details clearly

Benefits

  • 25 days PTO plus public holidays
  • Health insurance / private medical cover
  • Monthly stipend towards wellness, fitness, and learning and development
  • Remote - work from anywhere in your home country
  • Enhanced parental leave policies, whether you become a parent through birth, adoption or surrogacy
  • Access to our Pencil office in The Shard, London for UK employees
  • Flexible working hours

Key Skills

Product design Digital product design SaaS product design Platform product design Integration design API design Systems thinking Reusable design patterns Figma AI-powered design tools User experience design User interface design User research Design systems Component design Pattern design Guideline design Complex workflow design Financial workflow design Payment design Account management design Collaboration Communication Technical constraints System design Pragmatic solution design Long-term consistency Ambiguous environment Client-driven environment Evolutionary design

About Pencil

Pencil is Marketing's AI Operating System. We help enterprise brands aggregate AI models, enforce governance, and scale creative and media, safely. From insight to production to distribution, we unify the entire marketing workflow in one platform. Most enterprise teams are stuck in pilot purgatory, testing AI tools that never scale, stitching together fragmented workflows, and watching budgets disappear into non-working spend. We built Pencil to end that. We aggregate the best AI models from every provider –OpenAI, Google, Adobe, and more– into a single governed platform. This is what we call the Open Garden: you're never locked into one vendor's roadmap. You get the best model for every use case, today and tomorrow. Our platform unifies the entire marketing workflow –from insight and creative concept through production, governance, and media distribution. Enterprise teams can design, orchestrate, and scale creative systems that hold up in production, across markets and language

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