Lead Product Designer

Street Group

Lead Product Designer for a fast-growing PropTech company improving UK Estate Agencies. Setting design vision, mentoring designers, and driving roadmap conversations with product and engineering teams.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timeManchester • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £70,000 - £90,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the design vision and execution for a product domain. Translate strategic direction into the most ambiguous, cross-cutting, or strategically important pieces of design work.
Set the craft bar through your own output. The work you ship is the reference point for what good looks like in your area.
Own the cross-cutting design problems: patterns across multiple features, flows across multiple surfaces, the coherence of the domain's experience as a whole.
Mentor and raise the bar of the designers around you - through critique, pairing, and modelling what excellent design looks like.
Drive AI thinking strategically - both in your own workflow (Claude Code, in-product changes, prototype testing) and in what we ship to users. You'll have a strong view on what makes a good AI feature in this domain vs a gimmicky one.
Drive roadmap conversations alongside their product and engineering counterparts, not respond to them.
Test strategy by shipping, moving at pace, including on strategic work.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of Product/UX Design experience, with a track record at senior IC level.
SaaS or complex product experience is strongly preferred.
You can point to design work you've shipped where you wrote the success measure upfront and read the result after release.
You understand how the products you've worked on make money and you've made trade-offs informed by that.
Comfortable using AI across your workflow and equally comfortable thinking strategically about AI in the products you design - what makes a good AI feature, what the failure modes are, what to build now vs later.
Your work is exemplary and you can articulate it clearly enough to teach. You have views on interaction quality, hierarchy, motion, microcopy - and you can defend them.
Comfortable as a peer at the table with product and engineering counterparts in your domain. Drive direction; don't wait for it.
Open to flex - If you've line-managed before, or want to take on one or two direct reports alongside the IC work, we're open to that conversation.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Hybrid-working - you can work from home up to 4 days per week
Guilt-Free R&R - £1000 towards a holiday after your first year with the team (we'll even cover the tax!)
Joining a culture that supports your development and encourages growth
£500 yearly L&D budget for your career development
Your birthday on us - we pay, you stay away
'Give something back' - 2 paid days volunteering on us
Enhanced maternity, paternity & adoption pay
Mental health & well-being support via Health Assured
Regular well-being initiatives
Flexible working hours
Public transport season ticket loans
Paid menopause leave
Holiday buying scheme
Joining a new team in an exciting business with huge ambition
Be a part of something bigger - everyone in our team is passionate about improving the entire property industry! It's a huge goal, but it motivates us to do better every single day
A chance to work on cutting-edge technology
Comfortable, relaxed office space - office dogs welcome!
Fully stocked fridge and beers (or an alternative) on us every Friday afternoon
Company and team off-sites, events and happy hours
Cycle to work scheme
Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
Feel good about sustainability - we're a climate-positive company!

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Hard Skills & Tools

Product DesignUX DesignAI IntegrationPrototypingDesign StrategyInteraction DesignMicrocopyDesign MetricsSaaS DesignComplex Product Design

Soft Skills

MentorshipCommunicationCollaborationStrategic ThinkingCritiqueLeadershipFlexibilityArticulationProblem SolvingInfluence