Lead Product Designer

Prolific - UK Job Board?; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in the UK is seeking a Lead Product Designer to shape the product design strategy and enhance user experiences for B2B and B2C customers. You will collaborate cross-functionally to develop impactful solutions that drive commercial value and participate in the growth of a dynamic design team. The role offers a competitive salary, benefits, and the chance to work in a remote-friendly environment focused on innovative AI solutions.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Remote working

Mission-driven culture

Qualifications

• An extensive and varied track record of design experience.
• Experience in managing or coaching designers.
• Competence in industry design tools and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Solve customer problems and create opportunities.
• Raise the bar of product experience.
• Impact the development of designers across the product group.

Skills

Design tools and methodologies

Usability testing

Data-led decision making

Tools

Vision prototyping

Service design

Job description

Prolific is not just another player in the AI space – we are the architects of the human data infrastructure that’s reshaping the landscape of AI development. In a world where foundational AI technologies are increasingly commoditized, it’s the quality and diversity of human‑generated data that truly differentiates products and models.

The Role

As our new Lead Product Designer at Prolific, you will take your place as one of the movers and shakers of Prolific’s Product, Research, and Design Group.

Impact: You will be the Design person responsible for the impact and outcomes of one of the teams building our core data collector experience. This is a career‑defining moment to shape how some of the world’s biggest technology companies are building AI…no big deal!

Domain: You’ll bring experience crafting amazing product experiences for enterprise and B2B customers. You will be able to quickly absorb and synthesize large complex business systems and naturally spot ways to simplify them. In a fast‑moving and evolving market with emerging needs and priorities, you’ll apply your excellent research and usability testing skills to ensure best solution fit.

Responsibilities: You’ll report into the Head of Product Design, and will represent Design cross‑functionally across a product group while accountable for the design output of a stream‑aligned team.

Culture: Building on our Prolific Principles, we expect colleagues in the Product, Research, and Design Group to demonstrate reliability, grit diplomacy, a bias for action, and a dogged focus on value – you’ll be a champion of these behaviors yourself, and in the culture of your team. Accountability and autonomy are two sides of the same coin, and we expect you to demonstrate both.

What you’ll be doing

• You’ll bring your varied Design career experience to bear to solve customer problems and create new opportunities for users to fall in love with Prolific.
• You’ll raise the bar of our product’s experience and the Design team – by making bets and building products that customers love and which drive commercial value for our business.
• As a player/coach, you’ll be directly impacting the professional development of Designers across a product group, while solving problems hands on within your embedded team.
• You’ll partner productively with Product Managers, User Research, Analytics, and Engineering to find ways to deliver products in a test‑learn‑iterate fashion.

What you’ll bring

• An extensive and varied track record. We want to learn from your past experiences.
• Experience in either line managing or acting as player/coach for other Designers.
• An understanding and empathy, ideally via demonstrable experience, of the different needs businesses and enterprises have when it comes to their software products (B2B) vs what individual consumers expect (B2C).
• Competence or expertise in most or all of: The industry's prevailing Design tools, models, and methodologies, hands‑on experience working with design systems, vision prototyping, usability testing, service design, data‑led decision making and design for accessibility.
• A storyteller's flair, a model teamplayer, belief in 'strong opinions weakly held', personal accountability, and a relentless can‑do attitude.

Even better if you have

• Scale‑up or startup experience.
• A track record of giving back to your Design community.

Why Prolific is a great place to work

We’ve built a unique platform that connects researchers and companies with a global pool of participants, enabling the collection of high‑quality, ethically sourced human behavioral data and feedback. This data is the cornerstone of developing more accurate, nuanced, and aligned AI systems.

We believe that the next leap in AI capabilities won’t come solely from scaling existing models, but from integrating diverse human perspectives and behaviors into AI development. By providing this crucial human data infrastructure, Prolific is positioning itself at the forefront of the next wave of AI innovation – one that reflects the breath and the best of humanity.

Working for us will place you at the forefront of AI innovation, providing access to our unique human data platform and opportunities for groundbreaking research. Join us to enjoy a competitive salary, benefits, and remote working within our impactful, mission‑driven culture.

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