Head of Product Design

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Establish and take ownership of the design strategy, direction, and standards across Arbor’s growing product portfolio.

• Advocate for design at the leadership level and represent design in product strategy and roadmap decisions.

• Manage, prioritize, develop, and mentor the product design team.

• Define design standards, systems, and methodologies.

• Integrate designers into product teams for dedicated periods of significant and innovative work.

• Collaborate with product leadership to develop a long-term product strategy.

• Incorporate design practices, standards, and systems as products and acquired companies join the portfolio.

• Promote usability best practices through user research, testing, and the analysis of feedback.

• Work alongside product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to enhance UX and UI.

• Encourage innovation and collaboration across product design, product management, and engineering.

• Stay updated with UX/UI trends and investigate AI’s influence on design and cross-functional workflows.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in designing for B2B SaaS products.

• Experience functioning as part of a product leadership team and advocating for design to senior non-design stakeholders.

• Background in managing a central or agency-style design function.

• Proven experience in establishing design standards, systems, and methodologies.

• Experience in embedding designers within other teams for focused tasks.

• Experience integrating teams, products, or methodologies following acquisitions or significant organizational changes, or a strong desire to do so.

• Genuine passion for agentic and AI-enhanced work methodologies.

• Strong understanding of and empathy for product management practices.

• Proficiency in tools such as Figma, Storybook, Cursor, and Claude.

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

• Experience in leading and mentoring a team of designers.

• In-depth knowledge of user research methodologies, information architecture, and interaction design principles.

• An entrepreneurial mindset suitable for a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

🏝️ Benefits

• A dedicated wellbeing team offering mindfulness sessions, lunch and learns, manager training, and mental health first aid training.

• 32 days of holiday plus Bank Holidays.

• Life Assurance paid at 3x annual salary.

• Comprehensive wellness benefit through AIG Smart Health, which includes 24/7 virtual GP access, mental health support, counseling, and personalized health checks.

• Private Dental Insurance provided by Bupa.

• Salary sacrifice Pension plan offered by Scottish Widows.

• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity leave (6 weeks full pay).

• Five complimentary return-to-work maternity coaching sessions.

• Access to Calm and Bippit financial wellbeing coaching.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Social committees and team, office, and company-wide events.

• A dedicated professional development training budget.

• One paid volunteer day each year.

• Referral voucher worth up to £200.