Group Product Design Manager

The role

You will lead, coach, and develop the Product Design team. You will set the direction for design quality, own the Design System, and lead the shift to AI-augmented ways of working.

What you will do

• Leading, coaching, and developing the Product Design team
• Objective setting and performance reviews
• Ensuring managers follow good line management practice
• Embedding AI-augmented ways of working including prototyping, tools, skills, and workflows
• Driving a culture of user-centred design and UI excellence
• Building partnerships with Product, Engineering, Research, Brand, and Content
• Leading stakeholders up to executive level to follow good UX practice
• Defining metrics that show the impact of design
• Building business cases to grow Product Design capability

Required qualifications

• Substantial UX experience delivering work across product areas or programmes
• Experience line managing senior individual contributors and managers
• Accountability for a design team's performance
• Experience leading Design Ops or design system programmes
• Hands-on experience applying AI tools and workflows in design practice
• Deep experience in one or more channels, such as mobile apps, website design, or web apps
• Strong skills across UX planning and facilitation, user-centred design, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping
• Exceptional facilitation, storytelling, and influencing skills

Benefits

• Hybrid working
• Competitive bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits budget
• Salary sacrifice options for electric cars, nursery schemes, home and tech goods
• Work remotely from an approved list of locations for up to 90 days a year
• Mental wellbeing support through Spill
• £1,000 personal development budget
• Private health care including reduced gym memberships
• Medical cash plan for dental and optical expenses
• Life insurance and Income Protection
• Matched pension contributions up to 5%
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, well-being days and volunteering days

About the company

Flagstone is an online savings platform that reinvents how individuals, businesses, and charities manage, protect, and grow their cash. It is a collaborative and diverse group of people.