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The role
We are looking to hire a Product Design Lead to join our Product Design team in London, UK.
This is an on-site role out of our London office.
Working at WGSN
Together, we create tomorrow
A career with WGSN is fast-paced, exciting and full of opportunities to grow and develop. We're a team of consumer and design trend forecasters, content creators, designers, data analysts, advisory consultants and much more, united by a common goal: to create tomorrow.
WGSN's trusted consumer and design forecasts power outstanding product design, enabling our customers to create a better future. Our services cover consumer insights, beauty, consumer tech, fashion, interiors, lifestyle, food and drink forecasting, data analytics and expert advisory. If you are an expert in your field, we want to hear from you.
Role Overview
We're looking for a talented Product Designer to join the Product Design team at WGSN. You'll own design for your team across the full product development lifecycle, working closely with developers, product managers, data engineers, and content editors to shape and elevate our customer experience.
You bring strong conceptual thinking and a systems mindset — able to translate user needs into functional, delightful digital product experiences, and comfortable moving between polished detail and fast, low-fi exploration depending on what the moment calls for.
Key Accountabilities
- Own design projects end-to-end across multiple product launches, acting as a champion for design and user experience
- Design with data at the core: Translate complex datasets into clear, actionable user experiences — applying strong data visualisation principles, working closely with product and data engineering to ensure data integrity, and staying close to user needs so every data-driven feature solves a real problem
- Use AI tools fluently in your design and prototyping workflow, with a clear point of view on where AI adds the most value and how to keep improving that workflow
- Facilitate stakeholder conversations and workshops to define and implement solutions
- Translate research insights into new product ideas and features, and validate design assumptions with users through qualitative and quantitative methods
- Partner with product managers, developers, and content editors in a lean, agile, multi-disciplinary team to find practical, elegant solutions
- Take full ownership of your design decisions and work autonomously
- Contribute to and help evolve our design system, maintaining consistency across products
- Be a proactive, engaged member of the design and product community, helping shape team culture
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Skills, Experience & Qualifications Required
- A compelling portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design expertise
- Demonstrated experience designing with data — turning complex datasets into clear, usable experiences
- Strong, hands-on fluency with AI tools in the design process, with a clear point of view on how to apply them effectively
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, able to align business stakeholders and users around a product vision
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, with curiosity and a growth mindset
- Strategic, data-driven thinking across cross-functional teams
- Proven track record shipping high-quality, successful web products with strong UI and brand alignment
- Experience managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
- Expertise in UI/UX prototyping tools
What We Offer
Our benefits and wellbeing package offers flexible benefits you can tailor to your own personal needs, including:
- 25 days of holiday per year - with an option to buy/ sell up to 5 days
- Pension, Life Assurance and Income Protection Flexible benefits platform with options including Private Medical, Dental Insurance & Critical Illness
- Employee assistance programme, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme
- Volunteering opportunities and charitable giving options
- Great learning and development opportunities
More About WGSN
WGSN is the global authority on consumer trend forecasting.
We help brands around the world create the right products at the right time for tomorrow’s consumer.
Our values
We Are Everywhere
The future is everything, it happens everywhere. WGSN is the world-leading forecaster because we track and analyse consumer behaviours, product innovation, design and creativity, everywhere.
We Are Future Focused
We utilise our global resources and intelligence to research, source and analyse quantitative and qualitative data to produce our forecasts. Everything we do is focused on working with our customers to create a successful and positive tomorrow.
We Are Rigorous
We source, review and assess quantitative and qualitative data to produce robust, actionable forecasts. To provide credible insights and design solutions for our clients, it is essential that rigour runs through everything we do.
Our culture
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An inclusive culture is one of our key priorities. We want our people to truly be themselves and thrive. We love having a diverse team of people who bring new ideas, different strengths and perspectives & reflect the global audience we work with.
Inclusive workforce
We are committed to supporting the environment and sustainability, including ensuring our pension plan defaults to sustainable options and striving to be net zero by 2030.
Recognising great performance is a key part of our culture. Our Awards schemes recognise and reward the brilliant achievements of our people.
We offer a flexible working environment with a wide range of flexible, hybrid and agile working arrangements. Conversations about flexible working have always been—and will continue to be—actively encouraged here, but we do not offer full remote working.
We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.
A Note for Applicants
We use AI to help our team screen applications and identify candidates whose skills and experience match the role. This technology removes personal information to promote a fair and unbiased process. We believe this tool helps us find the best talent while maintaining transparency and fairness.
A Note for Recruiters
Thank you so much for your interest in working with us at WGSN! Our internal Talent Acquisition team takes care of all our recruitment efforts. When we need some extra help, we partner with agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) that truly understand our business, culture and ways of working together. Since we focus on these established partnerships, we’re unable to respond to unsolicited contacts or CVs from outside our PSL. But don’t worry! If we decide to explore new partnerships, we’ll be sure to reach out.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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