Lead Product Designer

Skills
CraftsEngineeringFramingHTMLProblem FramingProduct DesignStrategy
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • Experience leading a Design System and driving adoption
  • Strong portfolio showing exceptional craft and measurable impact
  • Advanced visual design skills including layout typography colour hierarchy and interaction detail
  • Understanding of how brand identity translates into product design systems
  • Experience with token-based design systems and handoff from Figma to code
  • Experience designing for both web and app surfaces
  • Ability to frame work around user and business problems
  • Comfort with ambiguity and systems thinking
  • Strong collaboration with Product and Engineering
  • Clear communication and ownership

Nice to have

  • Low ego
  • Pragmatic
  • Maker first
  • Outcome focused
  • Collaborative
  • Curious

Day to day

  • Lead ZOE’s Design System across app and web, evolving tokens components motion and haptics into a coherent scalable product experience.
  • Partner with Design Engineering Product and Brand to shape the design system roadmap and translate brand direction into buildable patterns.
  • Deliver end-to-end product design within squads, from problem framing and exploration through to delivery, while raising the craft bar through critique and collaboration.

Hiring process

  • Intro chat with Talent Team
  • Hiring Manager Interview
  • Remote Loop with 2 to 4 focused interviews
  • Offer and onboarding