Head of Design

The Head of Design will own product design quality across the group's consumer products and brands. This is a hands-on design leadership role with direct involvement in our most important products and user experiences.

Responsibilities

Set the design direction and quality bar across group products; Work directly on or review critical user journeys, product concepts and interfaces; Turn complex financial and AI workflows into simple consumer experiences; Set standards across product design, interaction, visual design and design systems; Review shipped products and identify specific usability and design problems; Work with product and engineering from early concepts through production; Recruit and assess senior product, UI and brand designers

Requirements

Strong portfolio of shipped consumer technology products with meaningful usage; Deep product and interaction design capability, not primarily people management; Strong visual judgement and attention to interface details; Ability to prototype and communicate product interactions directly; Experience working closely with product and engineering on shipped products; Hands-on design style - able to create, critique and materially improve design work directly; Portfolio submission is mandatory (link to portfolio in the application form)