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Head of Design

Resonate Tech 🇬🇧 Derby, England, United Kingdom

Full-time Lead

The Head of Design will establish and lead a new design team to shape innovative, commercially grounded solutions for railway operations. They are responsible for overseeing the design lifecycle, fostering a culture of excellence, and collaborating with product and development teams to ensure technical integrity and market success.

Responsibilities

  • The Head of Design will establish and lead a new design team to shape innovative, commercially grounded solutions for railway operations. They are responsible for overseeing the design lifecycle, fostering a culture of excellence, and collaborating with product and development teams to ensure technical integrity and market success.

Requirements

  • The role requires significant leadership experience in a software context, with a focus on inspiring teams and managing complex projects. Candidates must demonstrate strong systems thinking, commercial judgement, and the ability to translate strategic vision into practical, testable design concepts.

Benefits

  • Flexible working arrangements
  • 27 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays
  • 3 discretionary shutdown days
  • Pension plan with matched contributions
  • Income protection cover
  • Life assurance cover
  • Discounted retail vouchers
  • Private health care cover
  • Company sick leave and pay
  • Employee assistance programme

Key Skills

Design leadership Team building Systems thinking Commercial judgement Strategic vision translation Design lifecycle management Railway operations domain User‑centered design Design systems Cross‑functional collaboration Agile practices Mentoring Stakeholder management Prototyping Usability evaluation Communication Problem solving Technical integrity Market success focus

About Resonate Tech

At Resonate, we design, develop and deploy digital railway and connected transport solutions. We have a powerful digital platform combined with a highly skilled team delivering the best solutions for signalling control, traffic management, operations management and customer experience. We know that we are in a fast changing environment with increasing pressure placed upon capacity, connectivity, communication and cost and we use our creative and agile capability to bring you the right products quickly. Our visionary technology together with our customer-centric culture has created a set of evolving tools that help you to deliver a better performing railway with better informed passengers. Interested in becoming part of our journey? Vacancies can be found on our website.

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