Senior Product Designer, Foundation Partners
£85-95k
OTE
£80-85k
BASE
2-3 days a week in office
People strategy & operations consulting
Be an early applicant
People strategy & operations consulting
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
£85-95k
OTE
£80-85k
BASE
2-3 days a week in office
1-20 employees
Company mission
To align clients' people strategy with their business strategy to help them achieve their mission.
Role
Who you are
- 5–7+ years of product design experience in high-growth digital or commerce environments
- Experience mentoring or functionally leading other designers
- Strong understanding of how to scale design quality through systems and process
- Ability to balance creativity with structure and delivery discipline
- Strong interest in AI, machine learning and emerging interaction paradigms
- Ability to simplify complex systems into intuitive, human experiences
- Bonus: experience with conversational design or AI-powered products
- High ownership mindset with hands-on execution strength
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and defining structure where needed
- Strong cross-functional collaborator
- Confident presenting and defending design rationale
- Passion for beauty and consumer experience innovation
- Exceptional portfolio demonstrating:
- Experience designing mobile-first, commerce-led journeys
- A passion for the beauty industry a strong bonus
What the job involves
- As the Senior Product Designer at Noli, you are the functional lead for Product Design, responsible for elevating execution quality, innovation and systems thinking across our digital product
- Reporting to the Creative Senior Manager, you will translate overarching design direction into best-in-class, end to end product experiences
- You will personally lead the most complex and forward-looking initiatives, particularly AI-driven features and new experience concepts end to end, while setting the standard for craft, pace and product thinking across the product design team
- This role combines hands-on design excellence with functional leadership. You are both a craft leader and deeply executional, owning critical journeys and shaping how product design operates day-to-day
- 1. Lead Product Experience Excellence
- Own the design of our most complex and high-impact initiatives from concept to launch
- 2. Functional Leadership of Product Design
- Act as the most senior Product Designer and functional lead within the team
- Mentor and guide the other Product Designers in craft, process and best practice
- Ensure consistency in approach, thinking and execution quality
- Embed strong product design rituals, critique culture and structured thinking
- 3. Design for AI
- Lead the conceptualisation and execution of AI-powered beauty analysis and recommendation experiences
- Translate complex AI capabilities into intuitive, trusted and delightful user interactions
- Partner closely with AI engineers to align user experience with technical feasibility
- 4. Own Critical End-to-End Journeys
- Take accountability for high-priority journeys across discovery, onboarding, analysis, recommendation and conversion
- Ensure journeys are coherent, intuitive and commercially effective
- Balance innovation with optimisation to drive measurable impact
- 5. Drive Rapid Experimentation & Validation
- Lead rapid prototyping and structured validation of new concepts before build commitment
- Define clear design hypotheses and success metrics in partnership with Product and Data
- Support user research activities and ensure insight translates into design decisions
- Champion a strong test-and-learn culture within the product team
- 6. Evolve the Design System
- Own and continuously improve the product design system and component library
- Ensure scalability, consistency and efficiency across experiences
- Align system evolution with the broader creative direction set by the Creative Senior Manager
- 7. Senior Cross-Functional Partner
- Work in close partnership with Product, Engineering, AI, Brand, Marketing and Commercial teams
- Contribute design-led thinking into roadmap discussions and prioritisation
- Set the standard for strong design-engineering collaboration
- Influence decisions through clarity, rationale and user-centred evidence
- Translate creative direction, brand strategy, user insight and commercial goals into compelling end-to-end product experiences
- Set and uphold the quality bar for interaction design, UX thinking and execution across the product
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Foundation Partners offers consulting to help businesses build strong people, culture and HR operations. It offers three service packages ranging from advice and guidance to the embedding of a fractional people team.
With a view that thriving people build thriving businesses, Foundation Partners provides companies with the experience and support to empower their people towards creating business success. It does so both on a strategic level as well as the day-to-day, making sure that companies can build for the future while ensuring their teams have what they need today.
With a wealth of experience within the company, Foundation Partners is a stand-out potential partner for any business that wants to build a better people function. Some of the clients the company has worked with include Vinted, Monzo, JustGiving, Accenture and Checkout.com.
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Company
Company benefits
- 25 day's holiday
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Leadership
Anouk Agussol
(Managing Partner)Director at the Amplified People Group and JBM, as well as Founder / CEO at Unleashed.Company. They are also a Fellow at Foundervine and have extensive experience in People Strategy and Culture.
Andy Meikle
(Managing Partner)Director at the Amplified People Group, JBM and Unleashed. Is an Investor / Advisor for The Octopus Club and has extensive experience in People and Operations.
Andrew Richardson
(Managing Partner)Director at the Amplified People Group, JBM and Unleashed. Is an Advisor at Abingdon Software Group and Antler and has extensive experience in People and Operations.
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