Product Design Leader
Kitman Labs
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Greater Manchester • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Shape the next phase of our platform as a Product Design Leader.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high performing design team.
- Set clear standards for craft, quality, and impact.
- Embed design within cross functional squads, ensuring influence from discovery to delivery.
- Introduce modern, AI assisted design workflows to improve speed, iteration, and experimentation.
- Define AI capabilities in product experiences, translating complex data into trusted user interactions.
- Personally lead design for AI enabled initiatives from discovery to release.
Requirements
- 8 to 12 years in product design, with 2 to 4 years managing designers.
- Proven experience leading design within a SaaS or data intensive product environment.
- Demonstrated track record of shipping AI enabled features into-market.
- Close collaboration experience with Engineering and Data Science teams.
- Experience designing for complex, information dense workflows.
- Experience in sport, performance, healthcare, or similarly high consequence domains is advantageous.
- Strong working knowledge of LLM based systems, predictive models, and AI driven product features.
- Experience designing for explainability, human oversight, and system trust.
- Comfort using AI tools within the design process to accelerate prototyping and iteration.
- Ability to design within constraints such as latency, data quality variability, and model limitations.
- Familiarity with emerging interaction modalities such as conversational UI, voice, multimodal input, and agentic behaviours.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking, UX depth, and visual clarity.
- Strong design thinking skills are assumed.
- Demonstrated systems thinking, with the ability to design coherent experiences across complex and interconnected workflows.
- Experience building or scaling a design system.
- Ability to operate at both platform and interaction level detail.
- Clear communication of trade offs and design rationale.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Health insurance for employee & dependants
- Meaningful equity
- Pension Plan
- Life Cover
- Income protection
- Wellbeing benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product designAI enabled featuresdesign for explainabilitydesign for human oversightdesign for system trustdesign systemLLM based systemspredictive modelscomplex workflowsinteraction design
Soft Skills
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