Head of Product Design

Position: Head of Product Design

Overview

Join Bridebook as Head of Product Design to build a scalable design system and lead a high‑performing design team.

Responsibilities

• Define company’s design vision, principles, roadmap, aligning with product and brand.
• Build and evolve a unified, scalable design system (components, tokens, guidelines) for app, mobile web, and desktop.
• Champion accessibility, design quality standards, and a mobile‑first mindset across all surfaces.
• Establish rigorous discovery practices (interviews, usability testing, surveys, analytics).
• Run A/B and multivariate experiments, translate results into iterative product decisions.
• Advocate for data‑informed design, balancing qualitative research with analytical rigor.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a high‑performing design team, setting craft expectations and creating rituals that raise the bar.
• Identify and implement best‑in‑class tools and technologies to improve speed and quality.
• Embed collaborative, user‑centered culture celebrating learning and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with Product Managers and Engineers to frame problems, scope solutions, and balance user value, feasibility, and commercial impact.
• Drive efficient planning and delivery cadences (goals, critiques, reviews) to improve predictability and velocity.
• Uphold streamlined processes and documentation meeting Bridebook standards.
• Act as thought leader within the senior team, aligning design strategy with company goals.
• Communicate progress, risks, trade‑offs clearly to stakeholders.
• Elevate Bridebook’s product experience, becoming a recognizable reference product and brand.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading Product Design within a digital consumer app or marketplace.
• Built and scaled design systems across multiple platforms (mobile, web, desktop).
• Deeply user‑focused and insight‑driven, balancing qualitative research with analytical rigor.
• Strong track record of running experimentation (A/B testing, usability testing, iteration cycles).
• Exceptional people leader and coach, experienced hiring, mentoring, and developing designers.
• Strategic systems thinker connecting long‑term vision to day‑to‑day execution.
• Highly collaborative, experienced working cross‑functionally with Product, Engineering, and Commercial teams.
• Communicates clearly and persuasively with senior stakeholders.
• Strong bias to action – pragmatic, iterative, outcome‑oriented.

Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave (up to 30 days after 3 years).
• Hybrid working – twice a week in office, flexible.
• £500 per year learning and development budget.
• Enhanced family‑friendly policies.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• One month fully paid sabbatical after five years.
• 2 weeks working from anywhere per year.
• Wedding leave (5 paid days).
• Half‑day wedding anniversary leave.
• Financial wellbeing sessions.
• Yearly summit and quarterly events.
• Accessible, dog‑friendly office with free snacks, breakfast, lunch.

Location

London, Hammersmith – hybrid; minimum 2 days a week in office.

Equal employment opportunity

At Bridebook we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment. We strongly encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

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