Lead Product Designer — Remote, Design System Lead

Be Applied Ltd; Gran Bretaña; A distancia; GBP 74.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Work from home option

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Additional parental leave

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Paid emergency leave

Mentoring/coaching

Payroll giving

Team social events

Descripción de la vacante

Oak is a fully remote, mission‑driven organisation offering high levels of flexibility, autonomy and purpose. We’re a national not-for-profit working in partnership with teachers to create the highest‑quality, sequenced curriculum and lesson resources for pupils across all subjects and age groups.

We’re seeking a Lead Product Designer to lead our team of product designers, set design standards across squads and ensure what we build is accessible and useful for every teacher and pupil.

Formación

• 5+ years leading product design in digital products and services.
• Experience recruiting, developing and managing a high-performing team of product designers.
• Proven success leading a design discipline and setting standards across multiple teams.
• Proven success building and maintaining an accessible design system at scale.
• Extensive knowledge of UX/UI best practices across mobile and desktop.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and manage a high-performing product design team.
• Improve design quality across all product squads.
• Own design standards, principles, and workflows across Oak’s product development.
• Guide feature design across squads based on user and business needs.
• Champion the use of data and user research to ensure accessible UX/UI.
• Maintain specialist expertise in product design systems and methodologies.
• Contribute to strategy, planning and culture of the organisation.
• Work in cross-functional squads with colleagues from across the organisation.

Conocimientos

Team leadership

UX design

Design systems

Figma

User research

Herramientas

Figma Make

Prototyping tools

Descripción del empleo

Oak is a fully remote, mission‑driven organisation offering high levels of flexibility, autonomy and purpose. We’re a national not-for-profit working in partnership with teachers to create the highest‑quality, sequenced curriculum and lesson resources for pupils across all subjects and age groups.

We’re seeking a Lead Product Designer to lead our team of product designers, set design standards across squads and ensure what we build is accessible and useful for every teacher and pupil.