Head of Product Design

Location: Remote, UK

Salary: £125,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops a School Management Suite used by more than 13,000 schools and trusts to support staff, organize data, and improve working life in education.

What you will do

• Set and own design strategy, direction, standards, systems, and ways of working across hirify.global’s growing product portfolio.
• Represent design in product leadership, product strategy, and roadmap decisions.
• Line-manage, mentor, and develop the product design team while setting priorities across the portfolio.
• Embed designers into product teams to deliver important and innovative work, and integrate design practices following acquisitions or organizational change.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to improve UX and UI, prioritizing usability through research, testing, and feedback analysis.
• Promote innovation, collaboration, and AI-augmented ways of working across product design, product management, and engineering.

Requirements

• Proven experience designing within B2B SaaS products.
• Experience operating as part of a product leadership team and advocating for design with senior, non-design stakeholders.
• Experience running a central or agency-style design function, including setting standards, systems, and ways of working and embedding designers into other teams.
• Experience integrating teams, products, or ways of working after acquisitions or major organizational change, or a clear appetite to do so.
• Genuine enthusiasm for agentic and AI-augmented ways of working, including supporting product managers with design-adjacent work while maintaining quality and consistency.
• Strong experience with and empathy for product management practices.
• Proficiency in tools such as Figma, Storybook, Cursor, and Claude.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including presenting and defending design decisions to stakeholders.
• Experience leading and mentoring designers, with a focus on talent development and professional growth.
• Deep understanding of user research methodologies, information architecture, and interaction design principles.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working supported across the role.
• 32 days of holiday plus Bank Holidays.
• Wellbeing support including a dedicated wellbeing team, virtual GP access, mental health support, counselling, and health checks.
• Life assurance at 3x annual salary, private dental insurance, and a salary sacrifice pension.
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, and paternity leave, plus return-to-work maternity coaching.
• Professional development budget, wellbeing services, social events, and one paid volunteering day annually.

Hiring process

• Phone screen followed by first-stage and second-stage interviews.
• Take-home task involving a video presentation.
• Final interview.