Lead Product Designer

Salary: £55,000 - 55,000 per year

• Degree level education or equivalent professional experience
• Experience using and contributing to design systems, including governance and standards
• Proven experience designing digital products across both web and native app environments
• Strong understanding of web development practices
• Experience using digital analytics and conversion rate optimisation techniques
• Ability to prioritise and refine design backlogs in fast-moving environments
• Experience writing user stories and defining acceptance criteria
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery practices and sprint ceremonies
• Experience using Jira and Confluence
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to lead workshops and facilitate discussions across business and technical teams
• Strong collaboration skills with multidisciplinary teams

• Be central to the design and evolution of digital experiences across native app and web platforms
• Shape and enhance the design system, ensuring consistency, scalability and adoption across products
• Create wireframes, prototypes, user flows and design artefacts that communicate ideas effectively
• Partner closely with Product Managers, Developers and Content Designers to deliver customer-centric solutions
• Drive rapid ideation, testing and iteration to continuously improve user experiences
• Establish and maintain high design quality from discovery through to delivery and implementation
• Use customer insight, analytics and research to inform design decisions and product direction
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder sessions to gather requirements and align on solutions
• Contribute to the growth of the design community through mentoring, coaching and knowledge sharing
• Champion design best practices, accessibility and usability standards across the organisation

• Confluence
• JIRA
• Web
• Support
• UX UI Design

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We are Vitality, a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand with a purpose-driven culture, recognised as one of Glassdoors Best Places to Work 2026 and a Top 10 Place to Work in the Sunday Times Awards in 2024. This is a hybrid role, with two days per week in our Bournemouth or Stockport office, working full time at 35 hours per week, and we are happy to discuss flexible working. You will join our Enterprise team and help shape intuitive, user-centred health policy experiences across web and native app platforms. We offer a wide range of benefits including bonus schemes, pension contributions up to 12%, Vitality health insurance, and life assurance, and we are committed to helping our people grow, stay healthy, and do their best work in a supportive, inclusive environment.

last updated 39 week of 2026