Lead Product Designer
Paired
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £90,000 - £95,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own end-to-end product design of the app alongside the Head of Design. From insight-led discovery and ideation, through to execution and post-launch iteration.
- Translate business goals and requirements into user-centred, emotionally resonant solutions that drive measurable impact across, engagement, retention and revenue.
- Bring delight to everything you do — whether that’s a micro animation, tasteful haptics usage, or by providing the user with something unexpected. You understand that these small details are the difference between good products and great ones.
- Identify new product features by deeply understanding our user’s needs and lead ideation with bold concepts and prototypes
- Collaborate on running lean research with our UX Researcher, quickly testing to validate ideas, de-risk assumptions and inform decision-making
- Use AI and generative tools to rapidly prototype and visualise future states.
- Articulate the value and potential of new product ideas through compelling narratives, and work hand-in-hand with developers to ship refined, high-quality UI.
- Raise the design bar by modelling high standards of craft and mentoring peers, while evolving Paired’s design system to ensure consistency at scale.
Requirements
- You have a deep expertise in designing consumer-facing apps (ideally subscription-based, in related verticals such as femtech, health & wellness, education, or self-improvement.)
- You thrive in ambiguity and are proactive. You explore, prototype, and iterate to bring clarity and move forward.
- You have a strategic mindset, thinking beyond the current feature and to where the product could be in 6/12/24 months time.
- You are an expert in interaction design, with a refined grasp of micro-interactions and motion that elevate usability and create delightful, polished experiences.
- You have a proven track record of using data and user research to understand user needs, and gather insights to justify and support design decisions.
- You believe design is a team sport. You truly value feedback and actively seek it out rather than waiting until it’s too late.
- You default to prototyping when presenting your work.
- You have experience using gamification techniques to delight users and move business metrics.
- You understand that good design is often a journey to identify the right thing to build, using early concepts and prototypes to help build conviction along the way.
- You have a portfolio of well-crafted, impactful work that solves real problems for real people.
- You have a deep curiosity for the mobile app ecosystem and stay close to emerging platform capabilities, tools, and interaction patterns.
Benefits
- Competitive salary of £90k–£95k, depending on experience
- Significant stock options
- Annual learning budget of £1,000
- 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays
- Hybrid, 2 days per week in our Shoreditch office
- Three in-person events per year across Europe: two focused coworking weeks and one team-building retreat
- Comprehensive health insurance to support your physical and mental wellness
- 3 months paid maternity leave and 1 month paid paternity leave (including same-sex and adoptive parents)
- Paired Premium for you and your partner to stay in love
- A rare opportunity to build a product that genuinely helps millions of people strengthen their relationships every day
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product designinteraction designprototypinguser researchmicro-interactionsmotion designgamification techniquesdata analysisuser-centered designdesign system
Soft Skills
strategic mindsetproactivecollaborationfeedback seekingcuriositycreativityproblem-solvingmentoringadaptabilitycommunication