Job Title: Product Design Manager
Location: Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Type: Full time
Our Client is seeking a visionary Design Leader to inspire and elevate a team of designers in crafting intuitive, evidence-led experiences across web and app platforms. This role blends strategic influence with hands-on leadership, ensuring design excellence that aligns with business goals while championing the customer voice.
What You'll Do
Inspire and mentor designers, fostering growth through tailored development.
Shape design strategy that drives business outcomes and influences product roadmaps.
Partner across product, engineering, and other disciplines to deliver solutions that balance user, business, and technical needs.
Drive innovation through AI tools, design systems, and motion principles, creating seamless, brand-aligned app-first experiences.
Translate customer insights into actionable improvements, leading workshops, sprints, and research collaborations.
Own delivery and quality, track CX KPIs, and ensure accessibility standards across scalable, end-to-end journeys.
What You'll Bring
Proven track record delivering world-class, customer-centered digital products across responsive web and native apps.
Experience leading design teams through complex initiatives and multiple workloads.
Expert-level Figma skills, including scalable templates, advanced prototyping, and managing large-scale component libraries.
Mastery in accessibility, user research methods, and analytics tools (UserTesting, Adobe Analytics) to optimize journeys.
Strong storytelling, stakeholder influence, and resilience in fast-paced, evolving environments.
Portfolio Evidence
Applicants should showcase experience across four key areas:
People – Developing high-performing teams.
Process – Applying scalable UCD methods that drive measurable outcomes.
Position – Influencing strategy and embedding design across an organisation.
Product – Delivering world-class app-first digital experiences with proven outcomes and impact.