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Lead Product Designer
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Lead Product Designer
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Product Designer based in United Kingdom.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead the design vision for a next-generation platform serving highly technical users in cloud, infrastructure, and developer environments. You will own the product design function end-to-end, shaping intuitive experiences for complex workflows while influencing product strategy from the earliest stages. Working closely with engineering, product, and leadership teams, you will transform ambitious ideas into scalable, user-centered solutions. The role offers significant autonomy, allowing you to define design systems, improve collaboration, and integrate AI-powered workflows into the design process. If you thrive in startup environments, enjoy solving sophisticated UX challenges, and want to make a lasting impact on a rapidly evolving platform, this role offers an exceptional opportunity to do so.
Accountabilities
As the Lead Product Designer, you will define and execute the product design strategy while creating intuitive experiences for complex technical platforms. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure product decisions balance user needs, technical feasibility, and long-term scalability.
- Own and drive the overall product design vision, aligning user experience with business objectives and product strategy.
- Lead the end-to-end design process for new features, including research, discovery, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, UI design, and iterative improvements.
- Design user experiences for sophisticated technical domains such as platform engineering, infrastructure automation, permissions management, configuration workflows, and lifecycle management.
- Partner closely with product managers, software engineers, and technical specialists to validate solutions and influence product direction.
- Build and maintain a scalable design system that supports consistency, usability, and future product growth.
- Integrate AI-powered tools and workflows to improve design efficiency, documentation, prototyping, and collaboration.
- Work alongside frontend developers to ensure high-quality implementation of designs while contributing practical guidance on usability and interactions.
- Communicate design rationale, priorities, and progress effectively with leadership and key stakeholders.
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Requirements
The ideal candidate is an experienced product designer with a strong background designing complex SaaS or developer-focused platforms. You should combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution and be comfortable working independently within a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
- 10+ years of experience in product design, including leadership or senior ownership of complex digital products.
- Proven experience designing technical platforms such as developer tools, SaaS products, cloud platforms, DevOps solutions, or infrastructure software.
- Demonstrated ability to establish and scale design practices within startup or high-growth environments.
- Strong expertise in UX architecture, interaction design, visual design, and design systems, supported by a portfolio showcasing systems thinking and problem-solving.
- Solid understanding of frontend technologies, including HTML, CSS, and basic JavaScript, with the ability to collaborate effectively on implementation decisions.
- Experience influencing product strategy and working closely with cross-functional engineering teams.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain design decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Pragmatic mindset with a strong focus on simplicity, usability, and scalable product design.
- Fluency in English.
- Experience with developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, DevOps ecosystems, or Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) is highly desirable.
- French language skills are considered an advantage.
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Benefits
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
- 100% remote working environment.
- High level of autonomy and full ownership of the product design function.
- Opportunity to shape the future of an innovative technical platform.
- Collaborative team of highly skilled technical professionals.
- Professional development and continuous learning support.
- Strong commitment to sustainability and environmentally responsible technology.
- Home office setup budget of up to €1,200.
- Choose-your-own-device policy.
- Annual company retreat within Europe.
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We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
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