Lead Product Designer (Mobile App)

TL;DR

Lead Product Designer (Mobile App): Leading and mentoring a team of five Product Designers focused on native iOS and Android apps, owning the end-to-end design vision and aligning it with product strategy. Focus on driving improvements to the native app experience, raising design quality across UX, visual, content, and interaction design, and ensuring consistent, scalable patterns across platforms.

Location: Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Soho, London office and 3 days from home.

Company

hirify.global is home to the UK's largest choice of properties, aiming to make moving simpler by providing tools, expertise, and trust to millions of people.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of five Product Designers focused on native apps.
• Own the end-to-end design vision for the hirify.global app experience across iOS and Android.
• Define and communicate a long-term direction for apps that aligns with product strategy and influences roadmaps.
• Collaborate with Design, Product, Engineering, and Commercial to shape the experience.
• Ensure consistent, scalable patterns across platforms and support the evolution of the design system.
• Drive improvements to the native app experience, raising quality and adoption of reusable patterns.

Requirements

• Experience designing and shipping native app experiences for complex products.
• Experience managing and developing Product Designers with clarity, coaching, and support.
• Strong understanding of iOS and Android patterns, design languages, technical constraints, and platform behaviors.
• Ability to influence design direction through insights, evidence, and rapid conceptual thinking.
• Excellent collaboration, effective communication, and storytelling skills with leadership, stakeholders, and peers.
• A strong grasp of design systems, interaction patterns, and scalable frameworks.

Nice to have

• Curiosity and creativity in exploring new technologies and approaches, including the responsible use of AI in design.
• Strategic thinking with commercial awareness, and experience balancing business goals with user value.

Culture & Benefits

• Cash plan for dental, optical, and physio treatments.
• Private Medical Insurance, Pension, and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan.
• 27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year, and holiday buy schemes.
• Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in office.
• Contributory stakeholder pension and life assurance at 4x your basic salary.
• Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility.
• Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan.