Product Design Manager

Dec 2

Client: Established, growth-stage tech business
Location: Hybrid (on-site 3 days per week required) in London
Package: £90,000–£124,000 + benefits

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 experience managing and developing product designers in fast-moving environments.
Strong UX craft with a portfolio demonstrating impact in real products.
Comfortable balancing hands-on contribution with strategic leadership.
Collaborative and thoughtful in building strong cross-functional partnerships.
Experienced in applying experimentation or growth-focused design approaches.
Skilled in coaching designers to improve craft, confidence and output.
Fluent in Figma, with strong prototyping and communication skills.
Experience designing for both consumer-facing and organisational contexts.

Bonus points

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