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About the Role

As a Principal Product Designer, you are a discipline expert who sets the benchmark for quality and best practice. You are passionate about your work, motivate those around you, and act as a strong consultant fostering positive client relationships. You provide end-to-end product design leadership and consulting services to shape digital product strategy and launch initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support the design strategy and implementation from discovery through to delivery.
• Focus on delivering value with designs, balancing agility with holistic thinking.
• Design and facilitate business value proposition and other creative workshops and design sprints.
• Work within a cross-disciplinary digital team on design and front-end implementation through creation of design systems, style guides, prototypes, and other assets.
• Work in Agile/Lean methodologies to experiment and make data-driven decisions.
• Drive continuous improvement and quality by championing design principles.
• Engage clients and teams to ensure designs balance business goals, technical constraints, and user needs.
• Seed and scale design strategy and systems across a programme of work.
• Inspire and influence to gain buy-in for the design process and outcomes.
• Contribute at a leadership level to client engagement success with commercial awareness.
• Coach and align teams and clients on Design Thinking, Lean, and Human-Centered Design.
• Guide and support colleagues and stakeholders through divergent and convergent cycles.
• Work with Directors on sales activities, supporting shaping and closing new sales opportunities.
• Collaborate with Principal Delivery and Technology roles to enable delivery teams.
• Support product roadmap activities to shape user-centric backlogs and high-value delivery outcomes.
• Collaborate with clients and stakeholders to deliver business and user value through product strategy and exceptional designs.
• Communicate confidently about designs and decisions to influence long-lasting change.
• Set and implement a product design strategy and framework to solve complex client problems.
• Align and manage stakeholders on product strategy and desired outcomes.
• Advocate and introduce user-centered, lean/agile processes to clients.
• Break down complex concepts to communicate the value of design and recommended approaches.
• Actively contribute to developing the product design discipline within Red Badger.
• Care for people’s careers and wellbeing.
• Line-manage, support, and inspire designers.
• Support recruitment and growth of design disciplines.
• Proactively share knowledge and elevate the design discipline.
• Support the development of Red Badger’s design approach and strategy.
• Foster and facilitate a culture of valuable design criticism and feedback.
• Elevate the role of design within the company and the industry.
• Provide product and design discipline thought leadership.
• Contribute to the growth of the Red Badger brand in the industry.
• Write and speak publicly about design work and practices.
• Champion Red Badger’s ways of working: cross-functional teams, continuously delivering value, building quality.
• Act as an ambassador for Red Badger and advocate for 'doing the right thing' and 'doing the thing right'.

Requirements

• Strong experience working in lean/agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
• Strong working knowledge of industry-standard tools, such as Figma, with aptitude to learn and introduce new tools and methodologies.
• Experience leading product design implementation and practices within a cross-functional team or programme, working closely with engineers, data insights, user research, and quality assurance disciplines.
• Consulting experience working with clients, presenting design concepts, and leading on product strategy development and implementation.
• Extensive experience in all digital product lifecycle phases from discovery and influencing product backlog to delivery.
• Experience designing complex digital product solutions across multiple channels like mobile-first responsive web applications and mobile native apps.
• Hiring and line management experience including coaching and mentoring.
• Ability to contextualize product design decisions and recommendations to persuade clients through empathy and diplomacy.
• In-depth knowledge and strong practitioner experience of Human-Centered Design, Design Thinking, User Experience Design, Visual Design, and Business value proposition.
• Deep understanding of Brand application, UI design, and Design systems such as Atomic design.
• Good working knowledge of User research and User testing.
• Manage design stakeholders and clients at a multi-team programme level.
• Leverage understanding of front-end development to inform design decisions.
• Apply product management principles to support the design and delivery of new digital value propositions.
• Apply Service Design methodologies to surface insights, design, and test experiences.
• Influence Product Strategy to develop, build, and test new business opportunities.
• Leverage emerging technologies to enhance user experience.
• Lead, shape, and close new sales opportunities.
• Public speaking or producing content experience on lean and agile product design in the industry.

Skills

• Human-Centered Design
• Design Thinking
• User Experience Design
• Visual Design
• Business value proposition
• Brand application
• UI design
• Design systems
• Atomic design
• User research
• User testing
• Lean/Agile methodologies
• Scrum
• Kanban
• Figma

Location

• UK-based remote work
• Office-based work
• Client site work

Work Type

• Hybrid working environment
• Remote working
• In-office working

Experience Level

• Principal level
• Discipline expert

Salary/Compensations

• £ day rate OUTSIDE IR35

Benefits

• Annual £2,000 training budget
• Enhanced pension with employer contribution of up to 5% of your salary
• Group Life Insurance
• Income Replacement Benefit
• Critical Illness Cover
• Private Medical Insurance
• Your choice of hardware and mobile phone
• £2,000 home-office set up budget and contribution to home broadband
• Matched (pre-tax) charity GAYE donations
• Cycle to work
• Enhanced parental leave

About the Company

• Red Badger is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment.
• As a consultancy, our remote/in-person balance will change depending on the nature of the work and the clients we work with.

Equal Opportunity

• Red Badger is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
• We hire, employ, train, promote and compensate regardless of gender, gender identity, race, disability, sexual orientation, age, creed and colour.
• We are fully focused on equality, and we believe that the fascinating differences that make us all unique enable us to continue doing amazing work for our clients.