Lead Designer Jobs in the UK

151 to 175 of 195 Lead Designer Jobs in the UK

Lead Interaction Designer - DWP - G6

London, England, United Kingdom
Government Digital and Data
design services, products, and tools that meet user needs. They collaborate with Designers, Front-end Developers, Researchers, and Software Engineers to create user-centric services. We are seeking experienced Lead Interaction Designers to focus on user interactions with our products and services, aiming to create intuitive and efficient experiences. Job description As a Lead Interaction Designer, you … by senior interaction designers. Balance when to challenge assumptions and when to compromise, encouraging teams to do the same. Oversee multiple improvement initiatives within your community and across government. Lead community events, working groups, and practice initiatives. Manage, coach, and mentor senior interaction designers and other practitioners. Coordinate recruitment and induction processes for interaction design roles. Contribute to resource More ❯
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Lead Product Designer - Design Systems

London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Experian Group
We're looking for a Lead Design System Designer to join Experian and shape the future of our Design System, Nebula. You'll collaboratively define and deliver the vision, strategy and roadmap; ensuring a consistent, scalable and high quality user experience across our products. As a senior member of the wider Product Design team, you'll guide how … will foster collaboration, creativity and cohesion across our digital experiences. Responsibilities: Own and drive the adoption, strategy and growth of our design system - sharing progress and updates with stakeholders. Lead the design and implementation of Nebula's visual language, including typography, color, iconography, and componentry, along with the tools, resources, and documentation to support the system. Ensure all UI … of Design, conduct regular design reviews with team members to identify successes, challenges, perspectives, and preferences. Champion a strong design culture, providing opportunities for guild members to drive and lead system aspects. Identify ways to streamline workflows and improve quality by staying up to date with emerging tech and genAI capabilities. About Experian Experian is a global data and More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Lead Product Designer - Design Systems

London, England, United Kingdom
3C Deutschland GmbH
we have a team of 22,500 people across 32 countries. Our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Learn more at experianplc.com. Job Description We're looking for a Lead Design System Designer to join Experian and shape the future of our Design System, Nebula. You'll collaboratively define and deliver the vision, strategy and roadmap; ensuring a … will foster collaboration, creativity and cohesion across our digital experiences. Responsibilities: Own and drive the adoption, strategy and growth of our design system - sharing progress and updates with stakeholders. Lead the design and implementation of Nebula's visual language, including typography, color, iconography, and componentry, along with the tools, resources, and documentation to support the system. Ensure all UI … of Design, conduct regular design reviews with team members to identify successes, challenges, perspectives, and preferences. Champion a strong design culture, providing opportunities for guild members to drive and lead system aspects. Identify ways to streamline workflows and improve quality by staying up to date with emerging tech and genAI capabilities. Qualifications A strong portfolio demonstrating your impact in More ❯
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Lead Product Designer (Growth)

London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Inflow
by honesty. We're not afraid to be ourselves and while our mission is serious, we don't take ourselves too seriously. About the role We're seeking a Lead Product Designer (Growth) to drive user acquisition, engagement, and retention through exceptional product experiences. With 5+ years of B2C mobile design expertise, you'll blend deep user empathy … ll partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data Science teams to identify opportunities, run experiments, and deliver meaningful improvements that help more people benefit from our product. You'll lead the entire design process, from discovery and ideation to solution design, user research, high-fidelity execution, and Design System management. Balancing iterative experimentation with bold innovation, you'll optimize … journey, from research and ideation through high-fidelity implementation and continuous optimization Design and optimize key user experiences across acquisition, onboarding, activation, and retention to achieve ambitious growth metrics Lead user research initiatives to uncover deep behavioral insights, pain points, and opportunities that inform product strategy Develop and validate design hypotheses through A/B testing, leveraging behavioral psychology More ❯
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Lead Interaction Designer

Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Manchester Digital
matter, at a huge scale, with people who value design. Find out more about what it's like designing in government on ourDesign in Government blog . As a Lead Interaction Designer, you'll: lead design across the teams that work on our GOV.UK website, ensuring that they meet user needs and achieve organisational priorities shape product … without the use of AI to emphasise their own unique experiences. In the event we receive a high volume of applications, we will conduct the initial sift against the lead criteria which is: designing usable, accessible digital products that work at scale across multiple channels, for example apps, conversational interfaces, or web In the Civil Service, weuseSuccess Profiles to … this role. We'll also be assessing your experience and specialist technical skills against the following skills defined in the Government Digital and Data Capability Framework for theLead Interaction Designer role: designing for everyone designing strategically designing together Recruitment Timeline Sift completion:20/06/2025 Candidates that do not pass the interview but have demonstrated an acceptable More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Lead Interaction Designer

Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Manchester Digital
matter, at a huge scale, with people who value design. Find out more about what it's like designing in government on ourDesign in Government blog . As a Lead Interaction Designer, you'll: lead design across the teams that work on our GOV.UK website, ensuring that they meet user needs and achieve organisational priorities shape product … without the use of AI to emphasise their own unique experiences. In the event we receive a high volume of applications, we will conduct the initial sift against the lead criteria which is: designing usable, accessible digital products that work at scale across multiple channels, for example apps, conversational interfaces, or web In the Civil Service, weuseSuccess Profiles to … this role. We'll also be assessing your experience and specialist technical skills against the following skills defined in the Government Digital and Data Capability Framework for theLead Interaction Designer role: designing for everyone designing strategically designing together Recruitment Timeline Sift completion:20/06/2025 Candidates that do not pass the interview but have demonstrated an acceptable More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Lead Product Designer

London, United Kingdom
Taptap Send group
And that's just the beginning We charge fees for transfers on fixed exchange rate corridors (e.g., XOF, XAF). Role We're looking for an experienced, top performing Lead Product Designer (UX and UI) to join our team. You will create simple and effective product journeys with sharp UI to bring the Taptap Send brand to life. … mobile products. You are comfortable working cross-functionally in a rapidly changing start-up environment and assume an extreme ownership mindset. You'll work closely with our Senior Product Designer, Product managers, and engineers to take features from conception to launch. Requirements 6+ years of experience designing consumer app(s), bonus points for Fintech End-end UX skills with More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Lead Product Designer - Growth/Experimentation London, UK

London, England, United Kingdom
Cleo
s Growth pillar is focused on acquiring new users as efficiently as possible and helping all our users to get value from Cleo as quickly as possible. As a Lead Product Designer in our Growth pillar, your work will be essential in driving the next phase of Cleo’s mission to help more people on their journey towards … app focused design work that shows a proven track record of high quality execution in high-growth, fast-paced and product-led businesses. You are a strongly outcome-focused designer motivated by balancing business goals and user experience via small, quick, incremental experiment led impact. You thrive on getting deep into the data and the details to optimise existing … initial intro phone call with our Talent Team to learn more about your experience and why you want to work at Cleo. Step 2: A craft interview with a Lead Product Designer to walk through some of your design work as well as get to know you. Step 3: A case study with a design manager and PM More ❯
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Lead AI Designer

London, England, United Kingdom
Gunzilla Games
Richard K. Morgan. OUR VALUES Players First & Foremost We Believe in Our People Commitment to Engagement & Quality Make Bold Moves & Innovate Open & Honest ABOUT THE JOB Gunzilla seeks a Lead AI Designer for our game OTG (Off The Grid), a AAA Extraction Battle Royale available on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. RESPONSIBILITIES Lead a multidisciplinary … Adapt designs to technical and production constraints Ensure consistency across disciplines Develop expandable systems for post-launch Stay updated on industry best practices REQUIREMENTS 5+ years as an AI Designer, with at least 1 in a lead role Shipped at least one AAA title as a Senior or Lead AI Designer, preferably FPS or Multiplayer Experience More ❯
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Lead Content Designer

Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
Made Tech Limited
centred technology to improve society. We believe putting people at the heart of designing, building, and delivering public services leads to better outcomes for everyone. About the Role A Lead Content Designer is an expert practitioner responsible for setting standards, mentoring colleagues, and leading content design and user-centered design (UCD) approaches across multiple teams or complex services. … They work autonomously, influence stakeholders, and ensure high-quality, user-focused content that aligns with client objectives and meets accessibility standards. Key Responsibilities Lead the overall UCD approach within your service team. Ensure the quality of content delivery and set Made Tech’s design standards. Produce high-quality, user-focused content. Facilitate shared understanding of problems and testing ideas … across multiple channels and oversee its effectiveness. Build client relationships and understand their needs. Support business development through UCD expertise in bids. Identify skill gaps and support team development. Lead or support hiring and onboarding of designers. Promote a healthy, supportive community of practice. Represent content design internally and publicly. Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise Experience in delivering good public More ❯
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Lead Content Designer

Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Made Tech Limited
centred technology to improve society. We believe putting people at the heart of designing, building, and delivering public services leads to better outcomes for everyone. About the Role A Lead Content Designer is an expert practitioner responsible for setting standards, mentoring colleagues, and leading content design and user-centered design (UCD) approaches across multiple teams or complex services. … They work autonomously, influence stakeholders, and ensure high-quality, user-focused content that aligns with client objectives and meets accessibility standards. Key Responsibilities Lead the overall UCD approach within your service team. Ensure the quality of content delivery and set Made Tech’s design standards. Produce high-quality, user-focused content. Facilitate shared understanding of problems and testing ideas … across multiple channels and oversee its effectiveness. Build client relationships and understand their needs. Support business development through UCD expertise in bids. Identify skill gaps and support team development. Lead or support hiring and onboarding of designers. Promote a healthy, supportive community of practice. Represent content design internally and publicly. Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise Experience in delivering good public More ❯
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Lead Content Designer

Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Made Tech Limited
centred technology to improve society. We believe putting people at the heart of designing, building, and delivering public services leads to better outcomes for everyone. About the Role A Lead Content Designer is an expert practitioner responsible for setting standards, mentoring colleagues, and leading content design and user-centered design (UCD) approaches across multiple teams or complex services. … They work autonomously, influence stakeholders, and ensure high-quality, user-focused content that aligns with client objectives and meets accessibility standards. Key Responsibilities Lead the overall UCD approach within your service team. Ensure the quality of content delivery and set Made Tech’s design standards. Produce high-quality, user-focused content. Facilitate shared understanding of problems and testing ideas … across multiple channels and oversee its effectiveness. Build client relationships and understand their needs. Support business development through UCD expertise in bids. Identify skill gaps and support team development. Lead or support hiring and onboarding of designers. Promote a healthy, supportive community of practice. Represent content design internally and publicly. Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise Experience in delivering good public More ❯
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Lead Content Designer

London, England, United Kingdom
Made Tech Limited
centred technology to improve society. We believe putting people at the heart of designing, building, and delivering public services leads to better outcomes for everyone. About the Role A Lead Content Designer is an expert practitioner responsible for setting standards, mentoring colleagues, and leading content design and user-centered design (UCD) approaches across multiple teams or complex services. … They work autonomously, influence stakeholders, and ensure high-quality, user-focused content that aligns with client objectives and meets accessibility standards. Key Responsibilities Lead the overall UCD approach within your service team. Ensure the quality of content delivery and set Made Tech’s design standards. Produce high-quality, user-focused content. Facilitate shared understanding of problems and testing ideas … across multiple channels and oversee its effectiveness. Build client relationships and understand their needs. Support business development through UCD expertise in bids. Identify skill gaps and support team development. Lead or support hiring and onboarding of designers. Promote a healthy, supportive community of practice. Represent content design internally and publicly. Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise Experience in delivering good public More ❯
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Lead Gameplay Designer

Royal Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Playground Games Limited
Playground Games is looking for a Lead Gameplay Designer to join our Fable team on a permanent basis. About us: As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun. We are excited to be rebooting the much-loved Fable franchise and are expanding … our diverse team to create a new classic in the action RPG genre. About the role: As Lead Gameplay Designer you will develop and lead the gameplay design team, working on character driven gameplay systems. This is a permanent role based in our state-of-the-art studio in Royal Leamington Spa. We have a hybrid work More ❯
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Lead Interaction Designer - GDS - G7

London, England, United Kingdom
Government Digital and Data
accountability We are home to the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (I.AI), the world-leading GOV.UK and at the forefront of coordinating the UK’s geospatial strategy and activity. We lead the Government Digital and Data function and champion the work of digital teams across government. We’re part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and employ … that makes a difference across the UK. You'll solve some of the nation’s highest-priority digital challenges, helping millions of people access services they need As the lead interaction designer on theGOV.UKwebsite, you are responsible for design direction on a website that sees approximately 12 million visits per week, and is one of the most recognisable … that matter, at a huge scale, with people who value design. Find out more about what it’s like designing in government on ourDesign in Government blog. As a Lead Interaction Designer, you’ll: lead design across the teams that work on our GOV.UK website, ensuring that they meet user needs and achieve organisational priorities shape product More ❯
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Lead Gameplay Designer

London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
PLAYGROUND GAMES LTD
Playground Games is looking for a Lead Gameplay Designer to join our Fable team on a permanent basis. About us: As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun. We are excited to be rebooting the much-loved Fable franchise and are expanding … our diverse team to create a new classic in the action RPG genre. About the role: As Lead Gameplay Designer you will develop and lead the gameplay design team, working on character driven gameplay systems. This is a permanent role based in our state-of-the-art studio in Royal Leamington Spa. We have a hybrid work More ❯
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Lead Combat Designer · Sheffield

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Steel City Interactive Ltd
for candidates who can be onsite full time. However, for outstanding candidates hybrid or remote working within the UK may be an option. We are currently recruiting for a Lead Combat Designer , where you’ll be responsible for producing a high-quality boxing/fighting experience within our game. You will collaborate with design, engineering, art and animation … and work closely with other disciplines to ensure that the features deliver in both quality and to the games vision. You’ll be a passionate and level-headed combat designer who will be proactive and will always be thinking about the player experience. You’ll gather feedback and action it where required. Responsibilities Using Unreal Engine 5 to build … skills to analyse feedback, and action any changes. Consider and create tools and systems that will help deliver best in class combat. Knowledge, Skills & Experience Experience as a combat designer in at least 1 shipped AAA title on console or PC as Lead. Experience as a Lead Designer, with at least 7 years in the games industry. More ❯
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Lead Level Designer

Knutsford, England, United Kingdom
6124 TT Games Studios Limited
and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive. TT Games are looking for a Lead Level Designer with proven level design experience on console or PC titles, to take on a key role on an exciting new LEGO game based on a major … you will help to evangelise the game vision, ensuring it is clearly communicated to your team and carried through into the game’s level design and implementation. You will lead a team of level designers to deliver high quality levels which support the creative pillars of the game. You will ensure your level design team understand the vision and More ❯
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Lead Solution Designer

London, England, United Kingdom
Virgin Money
or Newcastle Contract type: Permanent Take control of your career. Live a life more Virgin. Our Team We're on the lookout for an enthusiastic and skilled Pega Solution Designer to join our dynamic OEE team. We're a dedicated group with a singular focus: delivering cutting-edge technology to empower our colleagues to deliver top-notch customer service … and more and currently have a program underway to migrate all our Pega on-prem applications to evergreen Pega Cloud platform on AWS. We have an exciting opportunity for Lead Solution Designer who will be spearheading the design of the cloud migration of the Pega portfolio and ensure they are scalable, secure and efficient. If you are passionate … of design, key decisions and analysis which serve as reference and record for future. We need you to have Experience in a solution design role, with the ability to lead the strategic and technical direction of large and complex projects. Experience with AWS cloud platform and cloud integration. Good understanding of Pega's architecture, tools and methodologies Exposure to More ❯
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Lead Gameplay Designer

London, England, United Kingdom
Maze Theory
can be. Project Xeno is our most ambitious IP yet, and we’re looking for bold creative leaders to help shape its future. Role Overview We’re seeking a Lead Gameplay/Creative Lead to define and drive the player experience across narrative, systems, and moment-to-moment gameplay. You’ll play a central role in bringing Project … vision. • The Art Director (AD) ensures visual storytelling and world-building align with gameplay. • The Executive Producer (EP) ensures the project is deliverable, performant, and creatively ambitious. Key Responsibilities • Lead the design and implementation of the core gameplay loop, player agency systems, and interactive narrative mechanics. • Translate high-level creative vision into tangible, emotionally resonant gameplay systems. • Drive cross … and worldbuilding. • Design and iterate VR/MR-first interactions that feel intuitive, powerful, and narratively impactful. • Champion a prototype-first development culture, balancing experimentation with clear iteration cycles. • Lead, mentor, and inspire gameplay and narrative design teams, ensuring creative quality and cohesion. • Act as the bridge between vision and execution, aligning every feature and interaction with the emotional More ❯
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Lead Product Designer

London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Publicis Groupe UK
of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation or gender identity. Overview We're hiring for a Lead Product Designer! You will play a crucial role in driving exceptional design solutions that impact our clients' business and customers positively. You'll be responsible for collaborating within … to a variety of stakeholders and facilitate workshops. Championing and applying accessibility and inclusive design approaches. Qualifications Skills we're looking for: Warm and empathetic, with the gravitas to lead by influence. Credible, capable of supportively challenging clients to enhance their operations. Commercial mindset, adept in supporting new business efforts. Excellent communicator and storyteller, both verbally and in writing. More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Product Designer (Senior, Lead or Principal)

London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
DuckDuckGo
their projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem. If you're seeking end-to-end ownership of your work — you've come to the right place! As a Product Designer (at Senior, Lead or Principal level), you'll collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, our User Insights team and other cross-functional teams to craft a world-class products … broader audience. With this role, we're eager to leverage not just your UX skills, but your ability to add creativity and delight to our products. You're visual designer at heart who cares about craft, challenging the norm and is eager to differentiate our brand through bold color, typography, motion, and interaction choices. Applying your hands-on design … skills, you will autonomously lead highly impactful projects that scale across millions of users. From ideation to execution, you'll assess vague problems, propose high-impact solutions, and execute them against a set of success criteria. You'll have a voice in all product-related design decisions, whether large or small, and an opportunity to work on a team More ❯
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Lead Product Designer - B2C

London, England, United Kingdom
Treatwell
Social network you want to login/join with: We seek a passionate and hands-on Product Design Lead to join our consumer design team. Treatwell’s consumer team focuses on the Marketplace where Customers connect with Salons to explore and book treatments predominantly through our iOS and Android apps. The role combines oversight of projects with design leadership … business acumen, with a solid understanding of how to achieve business objectives while meeting customer centricity and a high bar for design quality 4+ years of experience as a lead of Product Design or similar role Masterful communication in a multi-cultural, pan-european business environment — verbal and written Collaboration. Your best work is done in a highly collaborative More ❯
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Lead Product Designer

London, England, United Kingdom
Lightyear
product that customers love, but it’s still early days, and there’s much more to design and build. That’s where you come in! As our second Product Designer (alongside Kish), you’ll help translate customer needs, business goals, and our brand into an intuitive and beautiful product. This is a significant ownership role, ideal for someone who … Josh , who handles Brand Design. We foster ownership, minimal bureaucracy, and high standards, with strong support from our founders for design excellence. About You You’re an experienced Product Designer (or Design Manager/VP returning to craft) You have 7+ years of proven experience in-house or at agencies, preferably in high-growth startups You want to create More ❯
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Lead Product Designer London

London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Lightyear Entertainment
customers love, but it still feels like early days and there's so much more to design and build. That's where you come in! As our second Product Designer at Lightyear (alongside Kish), you'll assist in spearheading Product Design - translating customer problems and needs, business goals and brand into an intuitive and beautifully put together product. That … s a lot to own isn't it? Well that's what's exciting about being an early Designer at a new company. It still feels like day 0, everything is still yet to be defined - it's ours to figure out, decide what's important (and more importantly what isn't), decide how things will be done and … The bar for Design is incredibly high and our founders are massive proponents of Design - which creates an unstoppable flywheel for excellence. About You You're an experienced Product Designer (or Design Manager or VP that wants to get back into the craft) You have 7+ years of proven experience working in-house and/or agencies , with a More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Lead Designer
10th Percentile
£68,250
25th Percentile
£69,375
Median
£72,500
75th Percentile
£80,000
90th Percentile
£83,750