Lead Product Designer
Notonthehighstreet
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United Kingdom
GBP 82k-90k / year
Posted on Mar 28, 2025
As our Lead Product Designer, you'll be an exceptional individual contributor spanning all three of our customer-facing squads. This strategic role will give you significant influence, business impact, and design authority across our entire customer experience.
While you won't be managing a team, you'll be the sole design authority responsible for both our web platform and native mobile app. You'll place particular emphasis on evolving our app experience to meet changing customer needs. You'll build buy-in from senior stakeholders and influence strategic decisions that directly drive business outcomes and customer satisfaction.
You are...
- An experienced designer, comfortable balancing multiple initiatives across both immediate product needs and longer-term strategic vision.
- Equally effective working independently and leading collaborative projects with a hands-on attitude.
- Respected within and beyond the product team for your strategic thinking and design expertise.
- Embracing of remote-first transparency, collaboration and proactive leadership.
- Department
- Product
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Compensation
- £82,000 - £90,000 / year
- Reporting To
- Head of Digital Product & Design
Key Responsibilities
Design Leadership & Strategy
- Independently lead day-to-day design initiatives for our marketplace, driving both tactical excellence and strategic direction.
- Elevate the experiential quality of our products by capturing the NOTHS brand essence through high-quality visual and UX design.
- Create and present compelling design concepts to senior leadership through rich prototypes and presentations, driving buy-in for your strategic vision.
Research & Data-Informed Design
- Plan, lead and synthesise user research initiatives while scrutinising relevant data to inform and validate design decisions.
- Stay current with UX design trends and competitive platforms, incorporating relevant external innovations into your design solutions.
- Discover unmet customer needs beyond validating existing concepts, translating insights into innovative solutions that improve customer satisfaction.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work hands-on with engineers delivering comprehensive, implementation-ready flows, assets and documentation.
- Ensure design feasibility by approaching solutions holistically, considering edge cases, existing patterns and platform-specific requirements.
- Collaborate across the business to leverage, build and expand our cross-product design system.
- Drive collaboration with product management, engineering and stakeholders to ensure accurate implementation and exceptional outcomes.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Technical Skills:
- Comfortable working as a solo design contributor while maintaining strategic influence, with proven experience as a lead product designer within a Marketplace/eCommerce consumer space.
- Proven track record leading significant mobile app design initiatives, with deep expertise in native iOS and Android patterns and guidelines.
- Experience managing multiple workstreams across web and mobile platforms, with a history of shipping designs that significantly improve customer outcomes.
- Exceptional portfolio showcasing mobile-first design thinking and successful native app projects that demonstrate measurable customer impact.
Human Skills:
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge and passion for the NOTHS brand and customer experience.
- Ambitious and driven to contribute to rebuilding a legacy company, comfortable handling multiple responsibilities.
- Self-sufficient problem-solver who thrives as a solo design contributor while maintaining high impact across multiple product areas.
- Strong ability to context-switch between web and mobile design challenges, prioritising effectively without compromising quality.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to advise, influence, and persuade stakeholders, working effectively across functions to champion customer needs.
What we offer
Our perks
It's super important to us to make sure everyone feels safe and looked-after, which is why we've got a wide range of benefits in place. From supporting you and your loved ones with healthcare to cheeky 'just because' gifts, we're here for you.
We've got a ton of good stuff for everyone - like private medical insurance, a health cash plan, an electric vehicle scheme, mental health platform access, cycle to work scheme, and a 20% discount on our website. To find out more about what we offer, have a look here.
We've got a ton of good stuff for everyone - like private medical insurance, a health cash plan, an electric vehicle scheme, mental health platform access, cycle to work scheme, and a 20% discount on our website. To find out more about what we offer, have a look here.
We've also worked very hard to come up with a set of policies to support our people in any situation- like medicalised leave, menstrual leave, and primary carer leave.
Full-time NOTHS-ers get 25 days of holidays each year (plus bank hols!), as well as having the opportunity to work from anywhere for two calendar months a year. Did someone say beach holiday?
How we work
Here at NOTHS, we embrace a remote-first approach to work, recognising the value of flexibility and the diverse talents that remote teams bring to the table. Our remote work culture is designed to empower our employees, foster collaboration, and create a community that transcends physical boundaries.
Under this framework, all of us operate remotely, convening as teams at regular intervals that suit each team best. These gatherings serve various purposes, including ideation sessions, hackathons, or simply fostering valuable face-to-face interactions.
Every quarter, we hold a Get Together and the whole company meets for a fun-filled day (with no shortage of food!) with some special guests... our small brand Partners!
Under this framework, all of us operate remotely, convening as teams at regular intervals that suit each team best. These gatherings serve various purposes, including ideation sessions, hackathons, or simply fostering valuable face-to-face interactions.
Every quarter, we hold a Get Together and the whole company meets for a fun-filled day (with no shortage of food!) with some special guests... our small brand Partners!
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
DEI is really important to us and that’s why everyone’s welcome at Not On The High Street – whoever they are, whatever their background.
We are committed to embracing and encouraging our employees’ uniquenesses- whether this is in age, people with disabilities, ethnicity, family structures, gender, LGBTQ+ identity, lower income backgrounds, race, religion, the intersectionality or all/any of these and other aspects making us who we are. We take pride in treating all of our employees fairly and we want our people to feel respected, valued and recognised within the workplace.
We are committed to embracing and encouraging our employees’ uniquenesses- whether this is in age, people with disabilities, ethnicity, family structures, gender, LGBTQ+ identity, lower income backgrounds, race, religion, the intersectionality or all/any of these and other aspects making us who we are. We take pride in treating all of our employees fairly and we want our people to feel respected, valued and recognised within the workplace.
As part of your application, you’ll be asked to complete an optional demographic survey to help us learn more about who wants to work with us. Responses will only be used to help us figure out how to make our team even more inclusive and attract more brilliant people to join us!
We'll also ask whether you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to the interview process should you need them and you can answer this question should you choose to in the application phase.
We'll also ask whether you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to the interview process should you need them and you can answer this question should you choose to in the application phase.
Apply to join Team NOTHS!
Our recruitment processes are fully remote, taking advantage of the wonders of modern-day technology.
We’d love to hear more about you, your experience and why you want to join our team.
Good luck!
About Not On The High Street
We are Not On The High Street
We're here to help customers discover amazing products for all of life's needs; whether they're looking for a gift or something for themselves. We provide small brands across the UK with an engaged customer base, expert business support and ready-made tech and data infrastructure.
We’re home to 5,000+ phenomenal small creative brands that we are proud to call our Partners. So we’re doing all we can to shine a light on these dynamic entrepreneurs, waving the flag for small businesses and generally championing their socks off.
We are looking to build on this momentum to drive our business to the next level. And that’s where you come in.
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