Lead Product Designer (AI)

TL;DR

Lead Product Designer (AI): Owns the design vision and execution for a product domain in a UK PropTech company, with an accent on strategic product direction, complex cross-cutting experiences, and measurable outcomes. Focus on shaping AI-powered product experiences, making commercial design trade-offs, validating concepts with users, and raising the craft bar across the design team.

Location: Hybrid in Manchester, with the option to work from home up to 4 days per week. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

Salary: £70,000–£90,000 per year, calibrated according to experience and scope.

Company

hirify.global is a UK PropTech company building technology and digital experiences for estate agencies and the property industry.

What you will do

• Own the design vision and execution for a product domain, translating strategy into ambiguous and strategically important design work.
• Set the quality bar through high-quality product design output and establish patterns across features, flows, and surfaces.
• Drive roadmap and strategic discussions as a peer to product and engineering counterparts.
• Use user research, prototypes, metrics, support data, and customer feedback to validate decisions and measure outcomes.
• Shape AI strategy in the design workflow and in customer-facing product experiences, distinguishing useful features from gimmicks.
• Mentor designers through critique, pairing, and modelling strong interaction design and product judgment.

Requirements

• Approximately 8+ years of Product or UX Design experience, including senior individual-contributor experience in a modern product organization.
• Experience shipping design work with success measures defined before release and evaluated afterwards.
• Commercial fluency and the ability to make and defend design trade-offs based on product economics and customer outcomes.
• Strong practical and strategic AI fluency, including understanding when AI is an appropriate product solution and its potential failure modes.
• Exemplary craft across interaction quality, hierarchy, motion, and microcopy, with the ability to teach and raise the quality bar.
• Comfort working independently and collaboratively with product and engineering peers; management experience or interest in managing one or two designers is welcome.

Nice to have

• SaaS or complex product experience.
• Previous line-management experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with flexible hours and up to four work-from-home days per week.
• £1,000 holiday contribution after the first year and a £500 annual learning and development budget.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay, mental health support, paid menopause leave, and well-being initiatives.
• Birthday leave, holiday buying scheme, and two paid volunteering days.
• Public transport season ticket loans, cycle-to-work scheme, and electric car salary sacrifice scheme.
• Company events, off-sites, a relaxed dog-friendly office, and a climate-positive focus.

Hiring process

• Introductory call with the Talent team.
• Technical interview including a design task with the Head of UX.
• Final interview with the Co-Founder and Head of Product.