Principal Product Designer

Faculty; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at a forward-thinking company that is transforming organizational performance through AI. This role offers the opportunity to lead the design capabilities of the innovative Frontier platform, focusing on embedding design systems and fostering a design-centric culture. You will collaborate with a diverse team, shaping product strategy while ensuring high-quality, user-friendly design solutions. If you have a passion for design and a curiosity about how AI can revolutionize decision-making, this is the perfect opportunity to make a significant impact in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading design teams for successful B2B products.
• Strong portfolio in visual design and UI/UX.
• Excellent communication and strategic execution skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead design strategy and vision for the Frontier platform.
• Build and develop a high-performing design team.
• Champion user-centric design practices across products.

Skills

Leadership of design teams

Visual design expertise

UI/UX design

Branding

Communication skills

User-centered design principles

Strategic thinking

Curiosity about AI

Tools

Sketch

Figma

Job description

About Faculty

At Faculty, we transform organisational performance through safe, impactful and human-centric AI.

With a decade of experience, we provide over 300 global customers with software, bespoke AI consultancy, and Fellows from our award winning Fellowship programme.

Our expert team brings together leaders from across government, academia and global tech giants to solve the biggest challenges in applied AI.

Should you join us, you’ll have the chance to work with, and learn from, some of the brilliant minds who are bringing Frontier AI to the frontlines of the world.

About the role

Reporting into the VP of Product, this role will assume leadership of the design capabilities across our Frontier platform, with a key focus on embedding design systems and implementing a design-centric approach to our product development.

You will take a lead role in shaping and executing on the design strategy for Frontier. This role will see you apply design-led thinking to both technical and non-technical personas, as we help some of the world’s largest organisations improve the speed and quality of their decision-making processes with Frontier. As well as strategy and hands-on delivery of product design, this role will also see you acting as a leader within the design team; contributing to product strategy, setting direction and standards for design practices on Frontier, and coaching and supporting other Designers.

The role will be highly collaborative - working closely with our product team, solution engineers, sales engineers and wider organisation to move the culture of our product to a genuinely design-centric one.

What you’ll be doing

• Build, set and communicate the design vision and strategy for Frontier, aligned with Frontier brand values.
• Ensure that design work maintains a high level of creativity and quality.
• Building a high performing design team; developing team members.
• Oversee the creation and implementation of design assets including UI/UX, illustrations and relevant visual elements.
• Ensure consistency of visual identity and brand alignment.
• Work closely with product squads to integrate design into the development lifecycle.
• Be an advocate for user-centric design, championing best practices across UI/UX design.
• Ensure that products are user-friendly and rooted in user feedback while designed around specific personas.
• Stay abreast of industry and market trends; encourage experimentation and innovation.
• Contribute to sales assets representing the value of the product.
• Ensure that Frontier establishes and aligns with a design system across all products.

Who we’re looking for

• A proven track record leading design teams to deliver successful B2B products.
• Strong portfolio showcasing expertise in visual design, UI/UX design, and branding.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Sketch, Figma, or similar.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, usability, and accessibility standards.
• Ability to think strategically and execute tactically, balancing creativity with business objectives.
• Demonstrable experience working on a technical, industry agnostic platform.
• Experience leading a team in a cross-functional environment.
• Curiosity in how AI will revolutionise business decision making (and ideally experience of working with AI products).

What we can offer you:

The Faculty team is diverse and distinctive, and we all come from different personal, professional and organisational backgrounds. We all have one thing in common: we are driven by a deep intellectual curiosity that powers us forward each day.

Faculty is the professional challenge of a lifetime. You’ll be surrounded by an impressive group of brilliant minds working to achieve our collective goals.

Our consultants, product developers, business development specialists, operations professionals and more all bring something unique to Faculty, and you’ll learn something new from everyone you meet.