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Flagstone is an online savings platform reinventing how individuals, businesses, and charities manage, protect, and grow their cash. The company is a profitable, thriving business with a strong culture centered on collaboration, kindness, respect, and growth.
As Group Product Design Manager, you will report to the Head of UX and lead the Product Design team as a people manager and strategic leader. You'll be accountable for team performance, line managing senior individual contributors and player-coaches, while maintaining hands-on involvement where it adds value.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading, coaching, and developing the Product Design team through objective setting, performance reviews, and ensuring strong line management practices across your managers
- Driving a culture of user-centered design and UI excellence, ensuring shipped work meets design standards
- Embedding AI-augmented ways of working, including AI prototyping tools, skills development, and workflow integration
- Owning the Product Design Ops roadmap, including design critiques, reviews, process documentation, and UX Ops contributions
- Building strong cross-functional partnerships with Product, Engineering, Research, Brand, and Content teams
- Leading stakeholders at executive level to adopt good UX practices
- Defining design impact metrics and building business cases for Product Design capability growth
Flagstone offers hybrid working (minimum 1 day/week in London office), competitive bonus, flexible benefits budget, private healthcare, £1,000 annual learning budget, matched pension contributions up to 5%, 25 days holiday plus additional well-being and volunteering days, and enhanced parental leave.
Requirements:
- Substantial UX experience delivering successful work across product areas or programmes, with strong focus on team leadership, stakeholder influence, and commercial awareness
- Proven experience line managing senior individual contributors and managers, with accountability for design team performance
- Experience leading Design Ops or design system programmes
- Hands-on experience applying AI tools and workflows in design practice
- Deep experience in one or more channels (mobile apps, website design, web apps)
- Strong skills across UX planning, facilitation, user-centered design, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping
- Exceptional facilitation, storytelling, and influencing skills with ability to navigate complex situations and find compromise
