Lead Product Designer (Mobile App)

We’re seeking an experienced Lead Product Designer to join our Experience Design (XD) team.

The role:

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of five Product Designers focused on our native apps.
• Own the end-to-end design vision for the Rightmove app experience across iOS and Android.
• Define and communicate a long-term direction for our apps that aligns with product strategy and influences roadmaps.
• Collaborate closely with Design, Product, Engineering, and Commercial to shape the experience across Search, Move, and Home.
• Remain hands-on where valuable – exploring ideas, validating assumptions, and setting standards for design craft.
• Ensure consistent, scalable patterns across platforms and support the evolution of the design system.
• Drive improvements to the native app experience, raising quality, performance, and adoption of reusable patterns.
• Report to and work closely with the Head of Experience Design.
• Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Soho, London office and 3 days from home.

What you'll be doing:

• Partner with the Head of Product, Engineering leadership, User Research, and other Lead Product Designers to make strategic decisions and shape the roadmap.
• Lead discovery and generative research, using insights and data to understand user needs and drive decision-making.
• Maintain a holistic, insight-driven view of the experience across core journeys.
• Shape user journeys and app flows, creating concepts that clarify direction and drive alignment.
• Raise design quality across UX, visual, content, and interaction design.
• Champion inclusive and accessible design practices, ensuring standards are upheld.
• Contribute to design system decisions and adoption across teams.
• Represent XD within Rightmove and stay engaged with best practice and industry trends.
• Support team hiring and recruitment when needed.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Experience designing and shipping native app experiences for complex products.
• Experience managing and developing Product Designers with clarity, coaching, and support.
• Curiosity and creativity in exploring new technologies and approaches, including the responsible use of AI in design.
• Strong understanding of iOS and Android patterns, design languages, technical constraints and platform behaviours.
• Ability to influence design direction through insights, evidence, and rapid conceptual thinking.
• Leadership skills in recruitment and onboarding, providing clear direction and continuous feedback.
• Excellent collaboration, effective communication and storytelling skills with leadership, stakeholders and peers, building trust and nurturing strong relationships.
• A passion for continuous learning and development, with a proactive approach to enhance ways of working and collaboration, contributing to design operations for XD.
• A strong grasp of design systems, interaction patterns and scalable frameworks.
• Strategic thinking with commercial awareness, and experience balancing business goals with user value.
• A proactive approach to evolving ways of working and improving cross-team delivery and collaboration.

About Rightmove

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen. We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market. Despite this growth, we’ve remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here! We’ve done this by placing the Rightmove How's at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include:

• We create value…by delivering results and building trust with partners and consumers.
• We think bigger…by acting with curiosity and setting bold aspirations.
• We care deeply…by being real, having fun, and valuing diversity.
• We move together…by being one team - internally collaborative, externally competitive.
• We make a difference…by focusing on delivering measurable impact.

We believe in careers that open doors and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events.

And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we’re

a great place to work, we’re clearly doing something right!

If all this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making...

What we offer:

• Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments
• Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan
• 27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes
• Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in office
• Contributory stakeholder pension
• Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life
• Competitive compensation package
• Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility
• Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan
• Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching
• Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation. At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve.