Principal Product Designer - Project Beyond

Tesco UK; Greater London, Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company seeks a passionate designer to own the end-to-end experience and create accessible user interfaces. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to validate concepts and rapidly prototype solutions, driving customer growth with AI-driven insights. Your role involves rapid experimentation, user testing, and ensuring high-quality delivery across platforms. This position requires an ambitious mindset, enabling you to thrive in a confidential, startup-like environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in UX, UI, and service design across various platforms.
• Background in retail or e-commerce environments.
• Ability to work in a startup or scale-up setting.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end experience design for new customer growth.
• Deliver accessible and high-quality UI for MVPs.
• Manage user tests and synthesize insights for design decisions.

Skills

UX design

UI design

Service design

Rapid prototyping

Customer validation

AI utilization

Job description

We’re a confidential (NDA), AI‑first team inside Tesco, operating with startup urgency to create new customer growth. Expect end‑to‑end ownership—rapid experimentation, fast shipping, and leaning in wherever the work takes you, beyond your job title. If you’re ambitious, hard‑working, and excited to build 0→1 against tall ambitions, you’ll thrive here.

Design end‑to‑end experiences that turn vision into shippable, accessible UI, power rapid experiments and customer validation, and partner with PM/Engineering/Data (leveraging AI) to drive Tesco customer growth.

Responsibilities

• Own end‑to‑end experience design (UX, UI, service): define experience principles, map future‑state journeys/service blueprints that unlock new Tesco customer growth.
• Translate vision into shippable UI: deliver accessible, high‑quality interfaces and micro‑interactions for MVPs and live trials, aligned to Tesco’s design system.
• Build rapid experiment collateral: clickable prototypes, flows, content/variant packs, and stimuli to enable weekly user tests, A/Bs, and in‑market experiments.
• Drive customer validation: plan/run research and usability, synthesize insights, and convert learnings into prioritized design decisions at speed.
• Collaborate for outcomes: partner with PM, Engineering, and Data/ML to leverage new AI capabilities, define hypotheses/metrics, iterate fast—and operate confidentially under NDA.

Qualifications

• Bias to action: you move from idea to test to live quickly, and learn in the wild.
• Scrappy and resourceful: you ship with the tools to hand; progress over perfection.
• Customer‑obsessed: you validate with customers and let insight drive decisions.
• Ownership: you take responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks.
• Transparent communicator: you keep the team and stakeholders in the loop, early and often.
• AI‑forward: you use AI to accelerate research, synthesis, and delivery.

• UX, UI, and service design across app, web, and in‑store journeys
• Retail/e‑commerce
• Experience working in a start‑up / scale‑up
• Rapid prototyping and creating test collateral for weekly experiments
• Designing AI‑powered and personalized experiences in partnership with Data/ML
• Design systems: building/extending components and tokens; aligning to enterprise systems (e.g., Tesco)
• Accessibility and inclusive design baked into delivery
• Mixed‑methods research and experiment design
• Operating under NDA with strong documentation and stakeholder storytelling
• Interaction design and prototyping
• Creation and implementation of design systems
• Accessibility principles

Operational Experience

• Run hypothesis‑driven design sprints: plan weekly cycles, define testable bets, facilitate workshops and keep momentum high.
• Experiment ops: create test plans, recruit GDPR‑compliant participants, manage incentives/scheduling, capture insights and playback to the wider team.
• Backlog and delivery: partner with PM on requirement gathering, discovery and prioritisation.
• AI ops: use AI to generate variants, UX copy, and flows; document prompts and guardrails; sanity‑check for bias/hallucinations.
• Compliance and privacy: operate under NDA; handle PII in research; align with GDPR and Tesco governance; raise DPIA needs when relevant.
• You excel in the core foundations of UX, UI & research from strategy to delivery, including but not limited to – UX design information architecture, wireframing and prototyping, usability evaluation, user‑centred design, product methodologies, UX qual and quant.

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Equal Opportunity

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