Lead Product Designer
Newsquest Media Group
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £55,000 - £65,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead the design team: Manage and support a team of 5 designers working across web, mobile, email, and subscriptions.
- Improve design quality: Set standards for usability, accessibility, and consistency across our products.
- Own the design system: Maintain and evolve our Figma-based component library and design guidelines.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with product managers, developers, editorial, and marketing to deliver user-centred solutions.
- Balance speed and craft: Help the team make smart trade-offs between polish and delivery.
- Support research and testing: Encourage user feedback, A/B testing, and data-informed design decisions.
Requirements
- An experienced leader/manager of product design in a digital environment who can clearly demonstrate:
- A strong, relevant portfolio and career history showing thoughtful design work and team leadership.
- Expert understanding of UX, UI, and responsive design principles.
- Expert-level experience with Figma
- Demonstrable experience of formulating, designing and maintaining a complex design system.
- Solid understanding, preferably with hands-on experience, of front-end development and concepts.
- Excellent, confident, precise communicator who can explain design decisions clearly and build trust across teams.
- Prioritise attention to detail, with a sharp eye for layout, typography, and visual hierarchy.
- Comfort in agile teams, iterating fast and adapting to feedback without losing sight of the user.
- A proactive mindset, always looking to improve the experience and champion design thinking, requires a hands-on leader.
- Proven experience in the media industry, ideally in publishing and a desire to help shape how local news thrives in a digital-first world.
Benefits
- Remote Working
- Competitive salary
- Contributory pension
- Perks and discounts with numerous retailers and organisations
- Opportunities for team building and training days
- 25 days’ paid holiday, plus statutory bank holidays
- An extra day off on your birthday
- Holiday purchase scheme
- Structured career progression, ongoing training, and personal performance reviews
- Discount vouchers
- Discounted gym membership
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Mental health support via Lifeworks
- Eye test vouchers, plus £50 towards the cost of new glasses
- Annual volunteer or charity day
- Staff referral scheme
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
UX designUI designresponsive designdesign systemfront-end developmentA/B testingdata-informed designusability standardsaccessibility standardsdesign quality
Soft skills
team leadershipcommunicationattention to detailcollaborationproactive mindsettrust buildingadaptabilityuser-centered solutionsdesign thinkingproblem-solving