Lead Product Designer
About The Role Make sure to read the full description below, and please apply immediately if you are confident you meet all the requirements.
Team – UK, Health, Advisor & Employer Product
Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth or Stockport Office. Full time, 35 hours per week.
We are happy to discuss flexible working!
Top 3 skills needed for this role: End-to-End UX/UI Product Design
Cross-Functional Stakeholder Influence, Business Understanding & Delivery
Design Systems Leadership
What this role is all about:
At Vitality, Product Design plays a critical role in shaping the digital experiences that help customers get more from their health and wellbeing journey. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Lead Product Designer to join our Enterprise team, where you'll help define and deliver intuitive, user-centred experiences across our Health Policy journey. Working within a cross-functional environment, you'll combine strategic thinking, design leadership and hands-on execution to create products that delight customers while delivering meaningful business outcomes. Key Actions Be central to the design and evolution of digital experiences across native app and web platforms
Shape and enhance the design system, ensuring consistency, scalability and adoption across products
Create wireframes, prototypes, user flows and design artefacts that communicate ideas effectively
Partner closely with Product Managers, Developers and Content Designers to deliver customer-centric solutions
Drive rapid ideation, testing and iteration to continuously improve user experiences
Establish and maintain high design quality from discovery through to delivery and implementation
Use customer insight, analytics and research to inform design decisions and product direction
Facilitate workshops and stakeholder sessions to gather requirements and align on solutions
Contribute to the growth of the design community through mentoring, coaching and knowledge sharing
Champion design best practices, accessibility and usability standards across the organisation What do you need to thrive? Degree level education or equivalent professional experience
Experience using and contributing to design systems including governance and standards
Proven experience designing digital products across both web and native app environments
Strong understanding of web development practices
Experience using digital analytics and conversion rate optimisation techniques
Ability to prioritise and refine design backlogs in fast-moving environments
Experience writing user stories and defining acceptance criteria
Strong understanding of Agile delivery practices and sprint ceremonies
Experience using Jira and Confluence
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Ability to lead workshops and facilitate discussions across business and technical teams
Strong collaboration skills with multidisciplinary teams
So, what's in it for you? Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
Life Assurance – Four times annual salary
These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, w e will: Help you to be the healthiest you've ever been
Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self
Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work
Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths
Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be
Give you the space to try, fail and learn
Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support
Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits
Be there for you when you need us
Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy. About The Company
We're incredibly proud to be recognised for the culture we've created — recently being named one of Glassdoor's Best Places to Work 2026 , and in 2024 we were delighted to be awarded Top 10 Places to Work in the Sunday Times Awards. Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place. We've been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives – they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We're successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people – and because we care. Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out. Ready to find out if we're the right fit for you? We can't wait. Diversity & Inclusion
At Vitality, we're committed to diversity and inclusion because it's good for our employees, for our business, and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Vitality's approach to sustainability
Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. #LI-Hybrid
If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. xehkeey If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.
Team – UK, Health, Advisor & Employer Product
Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth or Stockport Office. Full time, 35 hours per week.
We are happy to discuss flexible working!
Top 3 skills needed for this role: End-to-End UX/UI Product Design
Cross-Functional Stakeholder Influence, Business Understanding & Delivery
Design Systems Leadership
What this role is all about:
At Vitality, Product Design plays a critical role in shaping the digital experiences that help customers get more from their health and wellbeing journey. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Lead Product Designer to join our Enterprise team, where you'll help define and deliver intuitive, user-centred experiences across our Health Policy journey. Working within a cross-functional environment, you'll combine strategic thinking, design leadership and hands-on execution to create products that delight customers while delivering meaningful business outcomes. Key Actions Be central to the design and evolution of digital experiences across native app and web platforms
Shape and enhance the design system, ensuring consistency, scalability and adoption across products
Create wireframes, prototypes, user flows and design artefacts that communicate ideas effectively
Partner closely with Product Managers, Developers and Content Designers to deliver customer-centric solutions
Drive rapid ideation, testing and iteration to continuously improve user experiences
Establish and maintain high design quality from discovery through to delivery and implementation
Use customer insight, analytics and research to inform design decisions and product direction
Facilitate workshops and stakeholder sessions to gather requirements and align on solutions
Contribute to the growth of the design community through mentoring, coaching and knowledge sharing
Champion design best practices, accessibility and usability standards across the organisation What do you need to thrive? Degree level education or equivalent professional experience
Experience using and contributing to design systems including governance and standards
Proven experience designing digital products across both web and native app environments
Strong understanding of web development practices
Experience using digital analytics and conversion rate optimisation techniques
Ability to prioritise and refine design backlogs in fast-moving environments
Experience writing user stories and defining acceptance criteria
Strong understanding of Agile delivery practices and sprint ceremonies
Experience using Jira and Confluence
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Ability to lead workshops and facilitate discussions across business and technical teams
Strong collaboration skills with multidisciplinary teams
So, what's in it for you? Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
Life Assurance – Four times annual salary
These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, w e will: Help you to be the healthiest you've ever been
Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self
Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work
Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths
Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be
Give you the space to try, fail and learn
Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support
Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits
Be there for you when you need us
Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy. About The Company
We're incredibly proud to be recognised for the culture we've created — recently being named one of Glassdoor's Best Places to Work 2026 , and in 2024 we were delighted to be awarded Top 10 Places to Work in the Sunday Times Awards. Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place. We've been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives – they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We're successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people – and because we care. Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out. Ready to find out if we're the right fit for you? We can't wait. Diversity & Inclusion
At Vitality, we're committed to diversity and inclusion because it's good for our employees, for our business, and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Vitality's approach to sustainability
Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. #LI-Hybrid
If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. xehkeey If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.