Group Product Design Manager

Flagstone, London Office

What you will do

Reporting to the Head of UX, You’ll be accountable for the performance of your team, line managing senior individual contributors and player-coaches. You’ll set the direction for design quality, own our Design System, and lead the shift to AI-augmented ways of working. This is a leadership role rather than a squad-based design role, though you’ll roll up your sleeves where it helps the team.

This will include

Leading, coaching, and developing the Product Design team, including objective setting, performance reviews, and making sure managers in your team follow good line management practice
Embedding AI-augmented ways of working, including AI prototyping, tools, skills, and workflows
Driving a culture of user-centred design and UI excellence, ensuring what we ship meets real user needs
Building strong partnerships with Product, Engineering, Research, Brand, and Content, and leading stakeholders up to executive level to follow good UX practice

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Group Product Design Manager

Flagstone, London Office

What you will do

This will include

Leading, coaching, and developing the Product Design team, including objective setting, performance reviews, and making sure managers in your team follow good line management practice
Embedding AI-augmented ways of working, including AI prototyping, tools, skills, and workflows
Driving a culture of user-centred design and UI excellence, ensuring what we ship meets real user needs
Building strong partnerships with Product, Engineering, Research, Brand, and Content, and leading stakeholders up to executive level to follow good UX practice

What you need

Substantial UX experience, delivering successful work across product areas or programmes, with a strong focus on team leadership, stakeholder influence, and commercial awareness
Experience line managing senior individual contributors and managers, with accountability for a design team’s performance
Experience leading Design Ops or design system programmes
Hands-on experience applying AI tools and workflows in design practice
Deep experience in one or more channels, such as mobile apps, website design, or web apps
Strong skills across UX planning and facilitation, user-centred design, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping
Exceptional facilitation, storytelling, and influencing skills, with the confidence to adapt and find compromise in complex situations

How we reward you

At Flagstone, the benefits extend beyond false gifts like “fruit and snacks”. Instead, we invest in your health, wealth, and professional development. Here’s a selection of our benefits:

Hybrid working – Spend at least 1 day a week with your team in our collaborative London office
Competitive bonus scheme – designed to reward and recognise high performance
Flexible benefits budget – a pot to fund meaningful benefits for you, whether it's hormone or fertility testing, cancer screening, neuro-diversity coaching or something that matters for you.
A range of salary sacrifice options to help you make tax efficient savings on electric cars, nursery schemes, home and tech goods.
Working Abroad – Flagstone employees can work remotely from an approved list of locations for up to 90 days a year
Mental wellbeing support – Access therapy and mental health sessions through Spill
Learning and development – £1,000 personal development budget to help you grow in your role.
Private health care – Enjoy all the benefits AXA has to offer, including reduced gym memberships and medical history disregarded
Medical cash plan – To help you with the costs of dental and optical expenses
Life insurance and Income Protection- four times your annual salary for peace of mind
Matched pension contributions up to 5%
25 days holiday - plus bank holidays, well-being days and volunteering days
Enhanced Parental Leave – enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay.

All are welcome.

At Flagstone, we’re assembling a diverse team that defies our industry’s norms. Think this role could suit you? We encourage you to apply, no matter your background.

Group Product Design Manager

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