Head of Product Design
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Arbor EducationEducation software
Location: Remote, UKFull-TimeManager
Salary125,000 GBP per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- FigmaProduct Management
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience designing within B2B SaaS products.
- Experience as part of a product leadership team and advocating for design to senior, non-design stakeholders.
- Experience running a central or agency-style design function, including setting standards, systems, and ways of working.
- Experience integrating teams, products, or ways of working following acquisitions or major organizational change, or a clear appetite to do so.
- Enthusiasm for agentic and AI-augmented ways of working.
- Strong experience with and empathy for product management practices.
- Proficiency with tools such as Figma, Storybook, Cursor, and Claude.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including presenting and defending design decisions.
- Experience leading and mentoring a team of designers.
- Deep understanding of user research methodologies, information architecture, and interaction design principles.
- Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Responsibilities
- Set and own design strategy, direction, and standards across Arbor’s product portfolio.
- Represent design in product strategy and roadmap decisions as a member of the product leadership team.
- Line-manage the product design team, set priorities, and mentor designers.
- Define design standards, systems, and ways of working, and embed designers in product teams for focused periods.
- Collaborate with product leadership to shape long-term product strategy for the suite.
- Integrate design practices, standards, and systems as products and acquired companies join the portfolio.
- Champion usability through user research, testing, and feedback analysis.
- Work with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to prioritize and implement UX and UI improvements.
- Promote collaboration between product design, product management, and engineering.
- Stay current on UX/UI design practices and explore AI’s role in the design process and cross-functional work.
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