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About the Role

We're looking for an experienced design leader to join our Experience Design (XD) team as a Lead Product Designer. This role involves leading, coaching, and managing a team of three Product Designers, owning the design vision for the Move & Home pillars, and guiding execution while being hands-on where it adds value.

Responsibilities

• Leading, coaching, and developing your team, setting clear goals and giving continuous feedback while supporting their growth and development.
• Holding a high bar for design craft and quality across your team's output, applying sound judgement and taste at scale.
• Setting the standard for design system contribution and adoption, driving consistency and reuse, staying aligned with other Lead Product Designers and Brand.
• Informing the strategy and direction for your domain, weighing risks, trends, and trade-offs, and connecting design decisions to business goals.
• Staying fluent in relevant commercial metrics, showing how design decisions can move them.
• Conducting research at a strategic level to shape product direction, articulating the user problems and opportunities that inform the domain's long-term vision.
• Influencing decisions and direction across levels and disciplines without relying on formal authority, communicating clearly across meetings, writing, and async formats.
• Championing inclusive and accessible design, and representing XD across Rightmove and externally, staying close to best practice and industry trends.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing and developing Product Designers.
• Strong design craft, taste, and judgement.
• The ability to hold a quality bar across other people's work, not just your own.
• Expertise in design systems, interaction patterns, and scalable frameworks.
• Fluency in the design challenges of complex, multi-sided platforms or marketplaces.
• Strategic thinking that balances business and commercial goals with user needs and a long-term product vision.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and storytelling skills.
• Curiosity and creativity in exploring new technologies and approaches, including the responsible use of AI in design.
• A growth mindset, a proactive approach to learning, improving ways of working, and strengthening cross-team collaboration.
• Aged at least 18 or over.

Skills

• Design systems
• Interaction patterns
• Scalable frameworks
• AI in design

Location

• Soho, London

Work Type

• Hybrid
• 3 days from home
• minimum of 2 days in the office

Experience Level

• Experienced

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive compensation package

Benefits

• Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments.
• Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan.
• 27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes.
• Contributory stakeholder pension.
• Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life.
• Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility.
• Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan.
• Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching.
• Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more.

About the Company

• Our vision is to give everyone the belief that they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen.
• We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties, and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market.
• Despite this growth, we’ve remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here! We’ve done this by placing the Rightmove Hows at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include: We create value…by delivering results and building trust with partners and consumers. We think bigger…by acting with curiosity and setting bold aspirations. We care deeply…by being real, having fun, and valuing diversity. We move together…by being one team - internally collaborative, externally competitive. We make a difference…by focusing on delivering measurable impact.
• We believe in careers that open doors and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we’re a great place to work, we’re clearly doing something right!
• People are the foundation of Rightmove - We’ll help you build a career on it.

Equal Opportunity

• As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage / civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity or sexual orientation.
• At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success., We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve.