Lead Product Designer

Works With:
Product Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, Customer Researcher, Product Analytics, Product Marketing

Term:
Permanent

Location:
Hybrid - London office based in Oval (2 days / week)

Artlogic is a leading technology platform for the art world. Founded in 1989, Artlogic empowers over 6,000 galleries, dealers, and art professionals worldwide to streamline their operations and grow their businesses. The company’s integrated platform combines inventory management, CRM, websites, sales, marketing, and payment tools, everything needed to run a modern and successful art business.

In 2021, Artlogic was acquired by tech investors Cove Hill Partners to accelerate innovation and expand its global reach. Since then, the company has doubled in size, with employees across London, New York, Atlanta, and Cape Town.

Today, Artlogic is entering an exciting new chapter through its merger with Art Cloud, another industry leader in art technology. Together, the two companies are uniting complementary platforms to build the most comprehensive, forward-thinking solution for the art world. This collaboration brings together deep expertise across CRM, sales, marketing, inventory, payments, and AI-powered tools, empowering galleries, artists, and collectors worldwide.

Joining Artlogic means becoming part of a growing global team that is shaping the future of how art is bought, sold, and managed, both online and in person.

Our technology team comprises over 50 people across Product, UX and Engineering working in cross-functional teams geographically distributed principally in the UK with a technical operations team in the UK and South Africa. At present, our technology stack comprises a combination of Python, Typescript, C# in Azure, GCP and AWS cloud environments.

As a Lead Product Designer, you will set the design direction for a journey or set of related products spanning multiple teams, championing the user at every stage and connecting design decisions to journey- and portfolio-level business outcomes. You will also be AI-fluent, using generative design tools, spec-driven workflows and rapid AI-assisted prototyping to move from problem to validated solution faster than ever before.

You will take ownership of complex, multi-team initiatives, shaping strategy from discovery through delivery and ensuring a consistent, high-quality experience across the domains you cover. Your expertise will shape the product’s direction by solving difficult user problems, defining cross-team patterns, and delivering intuitive, accessible user experiences across mobile and web platforms. You will set the bar for design quality across teams, drive alignment with product, engineering and business leadership, and establish how the design team adopts and gets value from new AI tools.

Your ability to think strategically at journey and portfolio level, prioritise outcomes, define measurable success, and represent the voice of the customer will be crucial.

Day-to-day responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to:

• Lead and shape complex, multi-team design initiatives
  , coordinating across teams and senior stakeholders to deliver solutions that solve significant customer problems at journey level.
• Own the design strategy for your journey or portfolio area end-to-end — from problem framing and discovery, through detailed design, to successful launch and post-launch learning — ensuring consistency across the domains you cover.
• Advocate for customer needs throughout every initiative, so decisions across teams are informed by a clear understanding of users’ goals and challenges.
• Apply strong UI design skills
  , and uphold the bar for craft and accessibility across the work shipped by your teams.
• Frame design trade-offs in terms of journey- and portfolio-level outcomes
  , defining measurable success with Product Managers and tracking it across multiple teams from kick-off through launch.
• Identify, sponsor and prioritise the design bets that will create the most value, securing the alignment and resources needed to deliver them.

• Set and uphold the bar for design quality across the…