Lead Product Designer
LEAD PRODUCT DESIGNER | UP TO £90K + EMI SHARES | HYBRID (BELFAST)
Few&Far are working with a fast-growing Series A AI-Scaleup Consultancy who are looking to hire a Permanent Lead Product Designer. 🚀
🏡 Hybrid Belfast (in-office x2 a week)
💰 Salary up to £90K Base + EMI Shares
This is a player-coach position, building an AI-powered platform (think product builder + orchestration + natural language interfaces) used by companies in complex, highly regulated industries (such as Defence, Government, Financial Services, Healthcare).
The role sits between leadership and execution - you’d be:
- Leading and mentoring a small design team (line managing 2-3, with scope to grow the team as they scale)
- Owning end-to-end design across their flagship AI product, in addition to oversight of other products in their portfolio
- Owning and evolving their design system and overall craft/quality
- Staying hands-on across UX, UI, and interaction design
It’s a high-impact role with:
- Real influence over product and design direction
- Strong growth trajectory (Series B on the horizon)
- A genuinely good work-life balance (early Friday finishes + reduced summer hours - 4-day working week in summer months)
Essential Requirements:
- Strong full-stack design capability (end to end)
- User research/discovery, validation of hypotheses, excellent craft, and experience shipping real products - not just polished UI, but clear thinking from problem → outcome
- Experienced owning a design system/massively contributing to design systems
- Portfolio requirements: demonstration of end-to-end design capability, from understanding a problem through to high-quality outcomes. Must have ability to communicate your journey/design process
- MUST be Eligible for SC Clearance
Desirable:
- AI-fluency, experience working on AI-enabled or AI-native products
Candidates must have full rights to work in the UK without sponsorship, and must have lived in the UK for at least 5 consecutive years, to be eligible for SC Clearance.