Group Product Design Manager

Overview

As Head of UX at Flagstone, you will lead and develop a high-performing product design team, shaping the design quality and strategy across platforms. You’ll own the Design System and drive AI-augmented ways of working, partnering with Product, Engineering, Research, Brand and Content to deliver user-centred, UI-excellent experiences. This leadership role focuses on people, process, and impact at scale, within a culture of growth and collaboration. You will influence executives and set metrics to prove design value and capability growth.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid working
• Competitive bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits budget
• Learning and development budget
• Private health care
• Matched pension contributions

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop the Product Design team, including performance reviews and management practices
• Drive user-centred design and UI excellence across products
• Embed AI-augmented design workflows, prototyping, tools and skills
• Build strong partnerships with Product, Engineering, Research, Brand and Content up to executive level
• Define metrics to demonstrate design impact and make a business case for growing design capability
• Set direction for design quality and own the Design System

Key requirements

• Substantial UX leadership experience across product areas or programmes
• Experience line managing senior ICs and managers with accountability for a 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 mobile apps, website design, or web apps
• Strong UX planning, user-centred design, interaction design, visual design and prototyping
• Excellent facilitation, storytelling and influencing skills

• facilitation
• storytelling
• influencing
• Design System
• AI tools and workflows in design
• UX planning and facilitation

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