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Lead Product Designer

Publicis Groupe Holdings B.v 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

Onsite Full-time Lead

Lead product and experience design across significant client engagements, from initial discovery through to final delivery. Collaborate within product, design, and engineering trios to define outcomes, prioritize opportunities, and maintain high-quality design standards.

Responsibilities

  • Lead product and experience design across significant client engagements from discovery through delivery
  • Partner with Product, Design and Engineering teams to frame problems, define outcomes and prioritize opportunities
  • Translate customer insight, brand ambition and business objectives into distinctive product experiences
  • Map end‑to‑end experiences and deliver crafted journeys, features, flows and prototypes
  • Use research, testing and data to validate ideas, measure success and continuously improve the experience
  • Work closely with developers during delivery to maintain quality and intent of the experience
  • Leverage AI‑enabled design workflows to accelerate research, exploration, prototyping and production
  • Lead workshops and present/defend design recommendations to senior stakeholders
  • Direct, critique, coach and inspire other designers to raise quality of thinking and execution
  • Create, evolve and champion scalable design systems
  • Champion accessibility and inclusive design throughout the process
  • Apply commercial thinking to product decisions and demonstrate design value
  • Support new business pitches and the growth of the Experience Design practice

Requirements

  • Exceptional product design craft covering interaction, UX and visual design
  • Proven experience leading complex digital products from discovery to delivery
  • Experience working in Product‑Design‑Technology trios and influencing product direction
  • Strong customer‑centred, evidence‑led product thinking with research, testing and data
  • Mature AI‑enabled design practice integrating AI tools into workflow
  • Excellent communication, facilitation and storytelling skills
  • Experience directing, critiquing, coaching and mentoring other designers
  • Strong commercial awareness and ability to connect design decisions to business outcomes
  • Experience creating and evolving design systems
  • Understanding of accessibility and inclusive design
  • Experience contributing to pitches and new‑business opportunities

Benefits

  • Pension scheme
  • Life assurance
  • Private medical cover
  • Reflection days
  • Shared parental leave
  • Inclusive employee action groups and other wellbeing initiatives

Key Skills

Product design Interaction design User experience (UX) User interface (UI) Visual design AI‑enabled design tools Design systems Accessibility design Inclusive design Prototyping Wireframing User research Data‑driven design Stakeholder management Facilitation and workshop leadership Mentoring and coaching Cross‑functional collaboration Agile methodology Figma Sketch Adobe Creative Cloud Storytelling Commercial acumen Presentation skills Design thinking

About Publicis Groupe Holdings B.v

Digitas is a global marketing agency within Publicis Groupe, delivering consulting, digital media and technology solutions for leading brands worldwide.

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