Lead Product Designer – Consumer

Overview

As Lead Product Designer in Rightmove’s Experience Design team, you’ll mentor a team of three Product Designers and define the design vision for Move & Home domains in line with product strategy. You’ll influence domain direction, collaborate with senior stakeholders, and contribute hands-on when valuable. You will champion design craft, systematize design system adoption, and translate design decisions into business outcomes. This is a strategic, people-focused role in a scale-up environment with cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Pay / Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension and Life Insurance
• 27 days holiday plus volunteering days
• Travel Loans
• Bike to Work scheme
• Discounts and deals

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Designers with clear goals and feedback
• Maintain a high design craft bar across the team’s output
• Set standards for design system contribution and ensure consistency with Brand and other Leads
• Inform domain strategy, assess risks and trade-offs, and align with business goals
• Translate design decisions into commercial metrics and impact
• Conduct strategic research to shape long-term product direction
• Influence decisions across levels and disciplines without formal authority
• Champion inclusive and accessible design and represent XD externally
• Collaborate with Design, Product Management, and Engineering leadership to steer domain direction

Key requirements

• Proven experience managing and developing Product Designers
• Strong design craft, taste, and judgment
• Ability to uphold quality across others’ work
• Expertise in design systems, interaction patterns, and scalable frameworks
• Experience with the design challenges of complex, multi-sided platforms or marketplaces
• Strategic thinking balancing business goals with user needs
• Strong collaboration, communication, and storytelling skills
• Curiosity about new technologies and responsible use of AI in design
• Growth mindset and proactive cross-team collaboration

• collaboration
• communication
• storytelling
• design systems
• interaction patterns
• scalable frameworks

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