Product Design Director — Remote UK, Scale & Craft

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 119,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance with zero-exc

Income protection

Tenure holiday policy (30 days after 5

Flexible working and home office setup

Nursery salary sacrifice scheme

Salary sacrifice for tech and holidays

Retail discounts

Quarterly team socials

Job summary

Midnite is a next-generation sports betting and gaming platform. We seek a Product Design Director to lead the Design team, shape company-wide experience direction, and embed Design in key product decisions.

You will manage five designers, own the end-to-end experience, and drive design systems adoption across surfaces. You will partner with Product and Engineering, contribute hands-on to high-impact initiatives, and push for high-quality craft while exploring AI-enabled improvements.

Qualifications

• Sets and defends a high bar for visual and interaction design.
• Operated at scale, shaping design direction across multiple teams and surfaces.
• Built or matured design systems that improve consistency and enable teams to move faster.
• Hands-on craft capability and contribution to high-stakes initiatives.
• Trusted strategic partner to Product and Engineering leaders on roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop our Product Design team, line managing five designers and setting a clear standard for craft, judgement and ownership.
• Define and uphold the experience bar across all product surfaces, from customer-facing native and web to back office platforms.
• Ensure coherence across squads and journeys so Midnite feels like one joined-up system.
• Shape long-term experience direction and codify principles that guide teams toward a shared north star.
• Mature and drive adoption of our design systems to enable speed and consistency at scale.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership on strategy and trade-offs.
• Contribute hands-on to high-impact initiatives, elevating outcomes through design.

Skills

Design leadership

Product thinking

Communication

Mentoring

Hiring

Tools

Design systems

Job description

Midnite is a next-generation sports betting and gaming platform. We seek a Product Design Director to lead the Design team, shape company-wide experience direction, and embed Design in key product decisions.

You will manage five designers, own the end-to-end experience, and drive design systems adoption across surfaces. You will partner with Product and Engineering, contribute hands-on to high-impact initiatives, and push for high-quality craft while exploring AI-enabled improvements.