Head of Product Design & Design System

FlagStone; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Bonus scheme

Flexible benefits

Salary sacrifice

Working abroad

Wellbeing support

Learning budget

Private health care

Medical cash plan

Life insurance

Pension match

25 days holiday

Parental leave

Job summary

Flagstone in London is seeking a senior UX leader to guide design strategy across product areas. You will lead senior designers and managers, elevate design quality, and ensure the team focuses on the right problems using AI-augmented workflows.

Reporting to the Head of UX, you will own the Design System, drive UI excellence, and build partnerships with Product, Engineering, Research, Brand, and Content, working with executives to articulate design value and impact.

Qualifications

• Substantial UX experience delivering successful work across product areas or programmes with a strong focus on team leadership, stakeholder influence, and commercial awareness.
• Experience line managing senior individual contributors and managers, with accountability for a design team’s performance.
• Experience leading Design Ops or design system programmes.
• Hands-on experience applying AI tools and workflows in design practice.
• Deep experience in one or more channels, such as mobile apps, website design, or web apps.
• Strong skills across UX planning and facilitation, user‑centred design, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping.
• Exceptional facilitation, storytelling, and influencing skills, with the confidence to adapt and find compromise in complex situations.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop the Product Design team with objective setting and performance reviews.
• Set the direction for design quality and own the Design System.
• Drive AI-augmented design workflows and prototyping.
• Build strong partnerships with Product, Engineering, Research, Brand, and Content, and lead stakeholders up to executive level.
• Define metrics that show the impact of design and build business cases to grow capability.

Skills

UX leadership

Team leadership

Stakeholder influence

Design Ops

Design System

AI in design

Channels: mobile/web

Job description

Flagstone in London is seeking a senior UX leader to guide design strategy across product areas. You will lead senior designers and managers, elevate design quality, and ensure the team focuses on the right problems using AI-augmented workflows.

Reporting to the Head of UX, you will own the Design System, drive UI excellence, and build partnerships with Product, Engineering, Research, Brand, and Content, working with executives to articulate design value and impact.