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Job summary

A leading personalised jewellery brand is seeking a Head of Product Design to drive innovation and lead a passionate design team. You will oversee product development, ensuring high-quality and market-driven jewellery and accessories. With the opportunity for significant career growth, this role offers a rewarding salary and a dynamic work environment supporting creativity and collaboration.

Benefits

Private Health Insurance
Career development opportunities
Flexible working arrangements
Regular team socials

Qualifications

  • Highly experienced product designer in jewellery and accessories.
  • Advanced skills in 2D and 3D CAD required.
  • Inspiration in leadership and customer obsession necessary.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the product design department and manage the team.
  • Build structured product development plans aligned with business objectives.
  • Develop the internal design team for CAD and 3D printing.

Skills

2D CAD
3D CAD
Leadership
Customer insight analysis
Product Design
Innovation

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06.06.2025

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Job Description:

Head of Product Design (Jewellery)

Rewarding salary + 10% bonus + benefits

Hybrid – 3 days per week at the London Product Studio

We've partnered with the exciting high growth personalised jewellery brand Abbott Lyon as we search for an Head of Product Design and Innovation to join their exciting team!

This is a fantastic opportunity to join Abbott Lyon on their journey, leading product design to further enhance their proposition of creating beautiful, personalised, and meaningful jewellery alongside a complementary collection of lifestyle accessories such as watches and bags.

The brand USP is the made-to-order custom proposition, where customers can create something that is truly unique, made especially for them or the person they are gifting.

Company Overview

Abbott Lyon is all about creating affordable luxury, designer-inspired, trend-led jewellery and accessories with a personal touch.

Founded in 2015 by Jezz Skelton & Asha Jones it has become a big hit globally, achieving eight-figure revenue direct to consumers via its website, and is the

fastest-growing jewellery brand in the UK, and recently ranked in the Sunday Times 100. Abbott Lyon’s focus is on creating high quality, stylish and meaningful jewellery designs with thoughtful and personal touches.

Check out their website here: www.abbottlyon.com

About the role

The Head of Product Design will be responsible for the product design team, covering jewellery, watches, accessories & homeware design.

They will report directly to the Product Director and will mix their product design expertise with a commercial mindset, identifying opportunities to further develop both the design process and Abbott Lyon products, whilst guiding a high performing team able focused on continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Leader of the product design department, overseeing & managing the team, closely supported by the Lead Jewellery and Lead Accessories designers.
  • Build highly structured product development and design plans for the year, closely aligned with the wider business objectives, campaigns & deadlines.
  • Build the best-in-class personalised jewellery & accessories proposition with an obsession around innovative personalisation in the affordable luxury space.
  • Develop our internal design team to be able to produce CAD drawings and 3D print concepts. The team currently use Rhino.
  • Work with our Buying and Product Development Team, partnering with the Head of Buying and PD, to oversee the Product Critical Path from idea to launch in a highly organised and commercial way.
  • Propose exciting initiatives for category expansion and plans to design, test and roll out.
  • Be obsessed with customer insights, trend forecasts, and data. Ensuring our product development roadmap is on trend and customer-centric.
  • Be commercially minded, looking for ways to maintain quality but enhance margin.
  • Play a key role in the brand sustainability objectives.

Experience and Mindset

  • A highly experienced product designer in the jewellery and accessories space with advanced skills in 2D and 3D CAD
  • An inspirational leader who balances a drive for results at pace with the softer, more intuitive aspects of leadership
  • Customer obsessed and passionate about the profile of customers Abbott Lyon serves.
  • Highly organised and structured in your approach, yet agile and pragmatic by nature
  • Innovative, enthusiastic, and always curious. Able to see the bigger picture and drive transformation
  • Highly capable and mentally agile, you thrive in fast-paced environments, where the expectation is to operate with a strong sense of urgency
  • An entrepreneurial mindset with a “no task too small” attitude; willing to roll up your sleeves but equally comfortable delegating and working as part of a team in a highly collaborative culture
  • Experience in and passion for innovative product design and development
  • Personable, pragmatic, resourceful, energetic, resilient, highly responsive, authentic, collaborative, non-corporate & comfortable with ambiguity, possessing the emotional intelligence to thrive in a founder-led business
  • Able to implement structure and process but also comfortable with ambiguity
  • Rewarding base salary + 10% bonus package
  • Flexible, hybrid working arrangements, there’s a minimum requirement of three days a week in office in the London Studio, with travel to the Manchester HQ on an ad hoc basis.
  • Lots of potential for career development and training
  • Private Health Insurance
  • Fun and friendly team with regular socials
  • Opportunity to be a part of the fastest growing jewellery brand in the UK!

If this sounds like you then hit apply or email Sam on [emailprotected] to find out more!

Abbott Lyon is dedicated to building and supporting a brilliant, diverse and hugely inclusive team as an equal opportunities employer. We don't discriminate against gender, race, religion or belief, disability, age, marital status or sexual orientation. Whatever your background may be, we welcome anyone with talent, drive and emotional intelligence to apply to our vacancies, as we recognise the importance of diversity; we’re excited to see what contributions you will bring to our Abbott Lyon team! Should you require any support throughout the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know what adjustments you may need.

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