Product Design Manager

Product Design Manager

Client: Established, growth-stage tech business

Location: Hybrid (on-site 3 days per week required) in London

Package: £90,000–£124,000 + benefits

TLDR: A great fit for someone who has led and wrangled complex, large-scale product systems, while still being deeply hands-on with high-level visual and interaction craft. You'll raise the design bar across a horizontal product area and work directly on cutting-edge AI interfaces and workflows that run through the entire product.

The opportunity

This is a chance to join a well-established, growth-stage private technology company with a product-led culture. The design team builds tools and experiences that deliver clear user value, measurable impact, and long-term engagement.

They're looking for a strategic, hands-on Product Design Manager to raise design quality and performance within a core product area that sits horizontally across the product suite. You'll report into an experienced, empathetic design leader with a background in scaling design within global product organisations, and you'll partner closely with cross-functional teams to simplify complexity, improve workflows, and deliver smooth, coherent experiences for both users and internal teams.

What you'll do

• Define UX vision and priorities across a substantial product group, aligning teams around user-centred goals and measurable outcomes.
• Lead by example through discovery, prototyping, and clear directional support to unblock and enable teams.
• Manage and develop a small, high-impact team of product designers, strengthening craft, decision-making, and delivery quality.
• Establish and embed effective critique and quality practices to raise the design bar across your area.
• Create scalable systems and patterns that improve consistency, reduce manual effort, and support sustainable growth.
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, data, and other partners to shape direction and execution.
• Champion experimentation, testing, and optimisation to drive continuous improvement.
• Help mature design operations through stronger planning, workflow, and team rituals.

About you

• Proven track record managing and developing product designers in fast-moving environments.
• Strong UX craft, with a portfolio showing impact on real shipped products, and willingness to be hands-on for a portion of the time, creating novel, industry-leading workflows.
• Comfortable balancing hands-on design contribution with strategic leadership.
• Collaborative and thoughtful, with a history of effective cross-functional partnership.
• Experience applying experimentation or growth-focused design methods.
• Skilled coach who can raise craft, confidence, and output across a team.
• Highly fluent in Figma with strong prototyping and communication skills.
• Experience designing for both consumer-facing products and organisational/enterprise contexts.

Bonus points

• Demonstrated curiosity through personal projects or exploration of AI, emerging tools, and new technologies.
• Motion and/or video experience is very relevant to the product

Benefits

• Generous annual leave
• Private medical cover
• Life insurance