Product Designer
Department: Technology & Data
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Pure Offices, Leeds
Description
About the Team:
Our Product Team is a fast growing cross-functional team who is aligned with our Tech, Data & Marketing peers. Responsible for defining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap, whilst ensuring the digital products that we own meets user needs and aligns with business goals. We’re passionate about our customers and are driven by data.
About the role:
As a Product Designer, you will play a key role in shaping and evolving the customer journey across all our brands. This is a hands-on role that spans the full product lifecycle, from discovery and research to concept development, prototyping and execution.
You will collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineers and stakeholders to design user experiences that are not only visually compelling but also deliver tangible business outcomes. You’ll be driven by customer insight and data, and will champion design thinking across the organisation.
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Getting Started:
* Get familiar with VCC’s current platforms, user touchpoints, and design ecosystem.
* Build strong relationships with cross functional teams to understand business objectives and user needs.
* Review current customer workflows and performance data to identify friction points and areas for improvement.
Establishing Your Impact:
* Run user research, market analysis, and usability testing to shape opportunities.
* Translate insights into wireframes, prototypes, and flows that inform product direction.
* Lead design sprints and facilitate feedback loops with users and stakeholders.
* Evolve and maintain our design system for visual and functional consistency.
Driving Excellence:
* Own the end-to-end design process across web and mobile products.
* Collaborate closely with developers to ensure smooth design implementation.
* Promote accessibility, responsiveness, and performance in all experiences.
* Stay ahead of trends, tools, and emerging technologies (including AI).
* Advocate for design excellence across agile ceremonies and team rituals.
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Key Goals & Objectives:
* Deliver seamless, accessible and on brand user experiences across web and mobile.
* Champion a data-informed design process that supports customer satisfaction and conversion goals.
* Drive alignment between product and engineering to ensure efficient delivery of high-quality features.
Key Responsibilities
* Own the user experience for customer-facing products across their entire lifecycle, from discovery to retirement.
* Translate research insights, business goals, and technical constraints into user-centric design solutions.
* Develop low- and high-fidelity prototypes to explore and validate design directions.
* Conduct user testing, interviews, and surveys to uncover insights and iterate on solutions.
* Collaborate with developers to ensure design feasibility and fidelity through QA and launch.
* Define, maintain, and evolve the design system, contributing to a consistent and scalable UI/UX language.
* Present your work confidently to cross-functional teams and stakeholders, articulating design decisions and expected outcomes.
* Embed yourself within agile workflows, participating in sprint ceremonies and contributing to backlog refinement.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
* 3+ years in Product or UX/UI Design with a strong portfolio.
* Experience designing for web, mobile, and responsive environments.
* Skilled in tools like Figma, Adobe XD, or equivalent.
* Proficient in research methods: interviews, testing, surveys, etc.
* Able to simplify complex problems into clear, usable designs.
* Familiar with A/B testing, experimentation, and data-informed decisions.
* Understanding of HTML/CSS and handoff best practices (coding a plus).
* Comfortable working in agile, start-up, or scale-up environments.
* Excellent communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.
* Passion for accessibility, simplicity, and continuous improvement.
Equal opportunities
At Vintage Cash Cow, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels heard, valued, respected and empowered to bring their authentic self to work. We believe that diversity drives innovation, creativity and success.
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, perspectives and experiences, and we strive to create equitable opportunities for all. Together, we’re building a culture that celebrates individuality and champions equity at every level of our organisation.
If you’re excited about this role, but don’t tick every box, we still encourage you to apply. Your unique skills and experiences might be just what we’re looking for now or in the future.
If you need adjustments or accommodations during the hiring process, please reach out to us and we will do our best to support you
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