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About the Role

This role involves providing end-to-end product design leadership across multi-team programs and high-value consulting services to shape client digital product strategy. The Principal Product Designer sets quality benchmarks, motivates teams, and fosters client relationships. Responsibilities include coaching and supporting designers, defining product direction and strategy, championing user needs, and collaborating with Product and Technology teams. The role reports to the Business Unit Product Director and focuses on delivering client outcomes, defining product strategy, ensuring digital product quality using Human-centered, Lean, and Agile methodologies, empowering designers, and leading product discipline.

Responsibilities

Successfully deliver client outcomes across multiple teams and programs
Consult clients to define and execute winning product strategies
Ensure quality of digital product development using Human-centred, Lean, and Agile methodologies
Empower, coach, mentor, and support product designers
Provide product discipline leadership
Lead and support design strategy and implementation from discovery through delivery
Deliver value with designs, balancing agility with holistic thinking
Design and facilitate business value proposition and creative workshops and design sprints
Work within cross-disciplinary digital teams on design and front-end implementation, creating design systems, style guides, prototypes, and other assets
Work in Agile/Lean methodologies to experiment and make data-driven design decisions
Drive continuous improvement and quality by championing design principles
Engage clients and teams to balance business goals, technical constraints, and user needs in proposed designs
Seed and scale design strategy and systems across programs of work
Inspire and influence to gain shared and early buy-in for design processes and outcomes
Contribute at a leadership level to client engagement success with commercial awareness and account strategy input
Coach and align teams and clients on Design Thinking, Lean, and Human-Centred Design
Guide and support colleagues and stakeholders through divergent and convergent cycles with tact, empathy, and conviction
Work with Directors on sales activities, supporting shaping and closing new sales opportunities
Collaborate with Principal Delivery and Technology roles to foster team autonomy
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 designs
Communicate design decisions with confidence to influence long-lasting change
Set and implement product design strategy and frameworks for complex client problems
Align and manage stakeholders on product strategy and desired outcomes through influence and diplomacy
Advocate and introduce user-centred, lean/agile processes to clients
Break down complex concepts to communicate design value 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 to develop
Support recruitment and growth of design disciplines
Proactively share knowledge and elevate the design discipline within Red Badger
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 and contribute to Red Badger's brand growth
Write and speak publicly about design work and practices
Champion Red Badger’s ways of working: cross-functional teams, continuous value delivery, quality building
Act as an ambassador for Red Badger, advocating 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
Aptitude to learn and introduce new tools and methodologies
Experience leading product design implementation and practices as part of a cross-functional team or program
Experience working closely with engineers, data insights, user research, and quality assurance disciplines
Consulting experience working with clients, presenting design concepts, and leading product strategy development and implementation
Extensive experience in all digital product lifecycle phases from discovery and influencing product backlog to delivery
Experience bringing digital user-centric products to life
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 contextualise product design decisions and recommendations to persuade clients through empathy and diplomacy
In-depth knowledge and strong practitioner experience of Human-Centered Design
In-depth knowledge and strong practitioner experience of Design Thinking
In-depth knowledge and strong practitioner experience of User Experience Design
In-depth knowledge and strong practitioner experience of Visual Design
In-depth knowledge and strong practitioner experience of Business value proposition
Deep understanding of Brand application
Deep understanding of UI design
Deep understanding of Design systems such as Atomic design
Good working knowledge of User research
Good working knowledge of User testing

Skills

Manage design stakeholders and clients at multi-team program 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 to inform digital product development
Influence Product Strategy to develop, build, and test new business opportunities
Leverage emerging technologies to enhance the user experience
Lead, shape, and close new sales opportunities
Public speaking or content production experience on lean and agile product design in the industry

Location

UK-based remote work
Hybrid (2 days in office, 3 days remote)
Ability to attend office and/or client site with suitable notice

Work Type

Contract (3-month initial, likely to extend)
Full-time

Experience Level

Principal

Salary/Compensations

Competitive 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
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 scheme
Enhanced parental leave

About the Company

Red Badger

Equal Opportunity

Red Badger is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment, and 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.