Lead Product Designer

Senior Product Design Lead
- Workplace Experience

London
- Hybrid, 2 days per week onsite

£600 per day
- Inside IR35

60-month contract

Start: ASAP

We are seeking an experienced Senior Product Design Lead to lead end-to-end UX and UI design for a global workplace experience platform.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role combining design strategy, team management and direct delivery. You will oversee a distributed design team while remaining actively involved in user journeys, wireframes, interaction design, prototyping and high-quality UI execution.

You will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Content, Brand and Accessibility teams to deliver a consistent and engaging employee experience across multiple global markets.

• Own the end-to-end product design vision across UX and UI
• Lead, mentor and support a distributed team of designers
• Remain hands-on with user flows, wireframes, prototypes and UI design
• Manage and prioritise the design backlog
• Lead discovery sessions, stakeholder workshops and design-thinking activities
• Establish consistency through design systems, accessibility and brand standards
• Support CMS-driven products and effective content-governance models
• Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Engineering and Delivery teams
• Present design direction and recommendations to senior executives
• Support the global rollout and adoption of the platform across multiple markets

• 10+ years of Product Design experience across UX and UI
• 5+ years in a design leadership or Lead Designer position
• Experience designing digital workplace, employee experience or internal enterprise platforms
• Strong hands-on wire framing, prototyping, interaction design and UI capabilities
• Proven people leadership and mentoring experience
• Experience working within large-scale, regulated enterprise environments
• Strong understanding of CMS platforms and content governance
• Experience managing distributed or offshore design and development teams
• Knowledge of design systems and accessibility standards
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills

• Financial services or another highly regulated industry
• Employee experience or workplace transformation programmes
• Desk, meeting-room or workplace-booking solutions
• Global headquarters or workplace rollouts
• Managing offshore teams based in India
• Content strategy or content design
• Presenting within governance forums and senior leadership meetings