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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 across multi-team programs and offer high-value consulting services to shape client digital product strategy or develop and launch early product initiatives.

Responsibilities

Lead and support the design strategy and implementation from discovery through to delivery.
Focus on delivering value with designs, while balancing agility in delivery 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 proposed designs balance business goals, technical constraints, and user needs.
Seed and scale design strategy and systems across a program of work.
Inspire and influence to gain shared and early buy-in for the design process and outcomes.
Contribute at a leadership level to the overall success of client engagements with commercial awareness and input into account strategy.
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, managing ambiguity and discomfort with tact, empathy, and conviction.
Work with Directors on sales activities, supporting the shaping and closing of new sales opportunities.
Collaborate with Principal Delivery and Technology roles to give delivery teams space and 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 exceptional designs.
Communicate confidently about designs and decisions with a broad range of stakeholders to influence long-lasting change.
Set and implement a product design strategy and framework to solve large-scale and complex problems.
Align and actively manage a broad range of stakeholders on product strategy and desired outcomes through influence and diplomacy.
Advocate and introduce user-centered, lean/agile processes to clients.
Break down complex concepts to communicate the value of design and recommended approaches to stakeholders.

Requirements

Strong experience working in lean/agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
Strong working knowledge of industry-standard tools, such as Figma, plus 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, 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, bringing digital user-centered 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 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 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.
Leverage emerging technologies to enhance user experience.

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
Figma
Lean
Agile
Scrum
Kanban
Product Strategy
Product Design Leadership
Consulting
Stakeholder Management
Coaching
Mentoring
Sales Support

Location

London
UK-based remote work

Work Type

Hybrid
Contract

Experience Level

Principal
Senior

Salary/Compensations

£ day rate OUTSIDE IR35

About the Company

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

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.