Principal Product Designer

📋 Description

• Shape visions. Work with design, insights & data, product management, and engineering to explore new strategic areas for our clients, make sense of ambiguous challenges and turn this into impactful experience.

• Win and deliver award winning work. You will challenge our thinking, lead creative on pitches and create artefacts to help us credentialize our capabilities.

• Drive quality. Take a lead role on projects, setting the product design direction, running multi-disciplinary critiques and owning our creative reputation.

• Tackle high-impact problems. Partner with engineering and product management to ensure a high-quality implementation that meets both user, business and technology stakeholder needs.

• Confidently create design systems for clients, or just as easily work with and evolve existing design systems.

• Be a coach and design leader to our clients and our design teams; planning and leading collaborative sessions with cross-functional product teams, playing an advisory role to clients.

🎯 Requirements

• A product development or experience design or consultancy background.

• A strategic mindset and vision-driven approach where you consistently break down complex ideas into tangible design direction, aligned to product strategy and delivery.

• A consultative mindset, able to spot opportunities to become an advisor to our clients, able to support them in driving change in their organisation, beyond the project you’re working on.

• Consistent track record of balancing a design lead role with getting your hands dirty in the work where needed.

• A strong systems thinker who understands how the pieces connect, continuously experimenting and improving human and business outcomes.

• A hybrid designer with an outstanding portfolio showcasing a foundation in design research, user experience, interaction and visual design, and particular strengths in one or two of these areas.

• A combination of experience in designing for mobile native and web applications, as well as other product interfaces.

• An understanding of technical platforms and how to get things built.

• A growth mindset, curious and eager to explore diverse ideas and learning, and seeking new opportunities and challenges.

• A strong communicator both visually and verbally.