Lead Product Designer

Salary £81,998 (GBP) £81,998 + benefits including 4.5-day week and 11% employer pension

Team Product

Seniority Mid-level

Work from home option

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Additional parental leave

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Paid emergency leave

Mentoring/coaching

Payroll giving

Team social events

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Lead Product Designer

Remote (UK-based) | Full-time | Salary: £81,998 + benefits including 4.5-day week and 11% employer pension

Do your best work, for the right reasons.

Teachers across England use Oak to plan and teach, and every lesson reaches them through products our team designs. We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer to lead our team of product designers, set the standard for design across our product squads and make sure what we build works for every teacher and pupil.

Oak is a fully remote, mission-driven organisation offering high levels of flexibility, autonomy, and purpose. We’re a national not‑for‑profit working in partnership with teachers to create the highest‑quality, sequenced curriculum and lesson resources for pupils across all subjects and age groups.

Our culture has been independently recognised through:

Flexa verified (93% overall score, including 95% for working hours and 97% for role modelling)

Escape the City's Top 1% Employers – based on anonymous colleague reviews of culture, development, and impact

Investors in People Gold - through external accreditation and colleague feedback

About the Role

This is a hands‑on lead role. You’ll spend around 70% of your time designing, from user journeys and flows to high‑fidelity prototypes and production. The other 30% is leading, mentoring and shaping how the team works.

You’ll be part of the product design team and embedded in cross‑functional squads, working day‑to‑day with product managers, engineers, and user researchers. You’ll own our design standards and design system, and set design direction across squads.

We’re a fully remote team. You’ll be comfortable working asynchronously and building relationships online, and you’ll keep a team aligned without becoming a bottleneck. As part of the wider Oak team, you’ll help shape our strategy, planning and culture.

What you'll be doing:

Develop and manage a high-performing team of product designers.

Responsible for the continuous improvement of product and feature design quality across all product squads.

Own design standards, principles, and ways of working across Oak’s product development, championing quality, accessibility and user experience.

Guide feature design across squads, setting design direction based on user and business needs.

Champion the use of data and user research to ensure Oak’s products deliver industry leading and highly accessible UX and UI.

Maintain specialist expertise in product design systems and methodologies and be an authority across Oak and more widely across the sector.

As a member of the Oak Team, you will contribute to the strategy, planning and model the culture of the organisation.

Work in cross-functional and product‑oriented squads with colleagues from across the organisation, as required.

Deputise for the Head of Product (Schools & Teachers) and take on other general responsibilities as required.

Lead the design and development of specific features, working closely with others to set design requirements based on user & business needs.

Support the development and continuous improvement of product design, systems and methodologies.

Support the design and development of key elements of the product design lifecycle including user journeys, user flows, creating prototypes, testing, developing high‑fidelity prototypes, and seeing designs through to production.

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