Product Design Lead
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The role
We are looking to hire a Product Design Lead to join our Product Design team in London, UK.
This is an on-site role out of our London office.
Working at WGSN
Together, we create tomorrow
A career with WGSN is fast-paced, exciting and full of opportunities to grow and develop. We're a team of consumer and design trend forecasters, content creators, designers, data analysts, advisory consultants and much more, united by a common goal: to create tomorrow.
WGSN's trusted consumer and design forecasts power outstanding product design, enabling our customers to create a better future. Our services cover consumer insights, beauty, consumer tech, fashion, interiors, lifestyle, food and drink forecasting, data analytics and expert advisory. If you are an expert in your field, we want to hear from you.
Role overview
We're looking for a talented Product Designer to join the Product Design team at WGSN. You'll own design for your team across the full product development lifecycle, working closely with developers, product managers, data engineers, and content editors to shape and elevate our customer experience.
You bring strong conceptual thinking and a systems mindset , able to translate user needs into functional, delightful digital product experiences, and comfortable moving between polished detail and fast, low-fi exploration depending on what the moment calls for.
Key accountabilities
Own design projects end-to-end across multiple product launches, acting as a champion for design and user experience
Design with data at the core: Translate complex datasets into clear, actionable user experiences — applying strong data visualisation principles, working closely with product and data engineering to ensure data integrity, and staying close to user needs so every data-driven feature solves a real problem.
Use AI tools fluently in your design and prototyping workflow, with a clear point of view on where AI adds the most value and how to keep improving that workflow
Facilitate stakeholder conversations and workshops to define and implement solutions
Translate research insights into new product ideas and features, and validate design assumptions with users through qualitative and quantitative methods
Partner with product managers, developers, and content editors in a lean, agile, multi-disciplinary team to find practical, elegant solutions
Take full ownership of your design decisions and work autonomously
Contribute to and help evolve our design system, maintaining consistency across products
Be a proactive, engaged member of the design and product community, helping shape team culture
Skills, experience & qualifications required
A compelling portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design expertise
Demonstrated experience designing with data, turning complex datasets into clear, usable experiences
Strong, hands-on fluency with AI tools in the design process, with a clear point of view on how to apply them effectively
Excellent communication and storytelling skills, able to align business stakeholders and users around a product vision
Comfortable navigating ambiguity, with curiosity and a growth mindset
Strategic, data-driven thinking across cross-functional teams
Proven track record shipping high-quality, successful web products with strong UI and brand alignment
Experience managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
Expertise in UI/UX prototyping tools