Lead Product Designer

Overview

In this role you will lead end-to-end design for a data-heavy, B2B platform in Oxford, shaping how users interact with complex data workflows. You’ll embed research and design into an agile product team of 30+ engineers, starting as a hands-on contributor and building a scalable design function. You’ll elevate a shared design system used across products and align design with product and engineering decisions. This is a strategic, impactful opportunity to transform complexity into clear, actionable interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end user experience across the platform
• Elevate and scale the design system across products
• Integrate design into product and engineering decision-making
• Deliver quick feature improvements and long-term platform reorganization
• Engage with real users via established research processes
• Start as individual contributor with a path to lead the design function in year two

Key requirements

• Proven experience in B2B product design on data-intensive platforms
• Comfort designing charts, data tables, and multi-level interfaces
• Strong research mindset with experience in interviews and usability studies
• UI maturity: clean, structured, professional design
• Strategic thinking on scaling design functions and systems
• Experience maintaining or overhauling design systems
• Ability to work onsite in Oxford (3 days/week)

• collaboration
• communication
• problem-solving
• data visualisation (charts, tables)
• multi-level interfaces
• design systems

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