Product designer

Digitas UK is looking for a Lead Product Designer with an entrepreneurial mindset, exceptional craft and strong product thinking. You’ll lead design across significant client engagements, moving confidently from understanding the problem and defining the experience through to prototyping, delivery and optimisation.

• Leading product and experience design across significant client engagements, from discovery through to delivery.
• Working as an equal partner within Product, Design and Engineering trios to frame problems, define outcomes, prioritise opportunities and make informed trade-offs.
• Translating customer insight, brand ambition and business objectives into distinctive product experiences.
• Mapping end-to-end experiences and delivering highly crafted journeys, features, flows and prototypes.
• Using research, testing and data to validate ideas, measure success and continuously improve the experience.
• Working closely with Developers through delivery to maintain the quality and intent of the experience.
• Using AI-enabled design workflows to accelerate research, exploration, prototyping and production while applying strong judgement around quality and craft.
• Leading collaborative workshops and confidently presenting and defending design recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Directing, critiquing, coaching and inspiring other designers to raise the quality of both thinking and execution.
• Creating, evolving and championing scalable design systems.
• Championing accessibility and inclusive design throughout the design process.
• Applying commercial thinking to product decisions and demonstrating how design creates value for customers and businesses.
• Supporting new business, pitches and the continued development of our Experience Design practice.

• Exceptional product design craft, spanning interaction, UX and visual design.
• Proven experience leading complex digital products or experiences from discovery through to delivery.
• Experience working effectively within Product, Design and Technology trios, influencing product direction rather than simply responding to requirements.
• Strong customer-centred and evidence-led product thinking, using research, testing and data to inform decisions.
• A mature AI-enabled design practice, with experience integrating AI into your workflow to improve the speed, quality and breadth of exploration and delivery.
• Confidence leading clients, constructively challenging thinking and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and storytelling skills.
• Experience directing, critiquing, coaching and mentoring other designers.
• Strong commercial awareness, with evidence of connecting design decisions to customer and business outcomes.
• Experience creating and evolving design systems.
• Strong understanding of accessibility and inclusive design.
• Experience contributing to pitches and new-business opportunities.

• Digitas offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees. Full details are shared when you join, but highlights include core benefits such as Pension, Life Assurance, and Private Medical cover, alongside enhanced policies like Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave.
• Publicis Groupe works primarily from the office or our clients' office four days per week.