Hybrid Lead Product Designer

at Checkatrade

• Job title: Lead Product Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Android, iOS, React
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Lead Product Designer evolving Checkatrade's multi-platform design system across web and mobile. Collaborating with engineering, mentoring designers, and enhancing user experience.

Responsibilities

• Designing and evolving our multi-platform design system across web, iOS and Android.
• Owning the end-to-end architecture in Figma - components, patterns, tokens, motion, spacing, accessibility and documentation.
• Building and maintaining high-quality libraries that designers love and engineers trust.
• Partnering closely with engineering to ensure accurate, performant implementation across platforms.
• Creating structure where none exists: contribution models, governance, versioning, release cycles and QA.
• Running audits to spot gaps, remove friction, and evolve the system as our products scale.
• Shaping how system-level thinking is applied in real product teams across trade and consumer.
• Mentoring designers on how to design within, contribute to, and get the most from a complex system.
• Championing adoption across teams - showing how the system speeds delivery and elevates quality.
• Rolling up your sleeves and getting hands-on ~70% of the time, with leadership and enablement making up the rest.

Requirements

• A track record of building or evolving robust, multi-platform design systems - ideally in a mature product environment, not a first-version start-up environment.
• Systems thinking: the ability to connect tokens → components → patterns → brand → engineering in a cohesive, scalable way.
• Mastery of Figma, with experience architecting libraries, not just consuming them.
• Familiarity with engineering workflows (React, Storybook, token pipelines) and the ability to collaborate deeply with engineers.
• Strong communication - the kind that brings clarity, structure, and calm to ambiguity.
• Curiosity, craft pride, and a roll-your-sleeves-up attitude.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + annual bonus or commission (role dependent)
• Health, well-being and learning support
• Gym membership, Smart Tech Scheme and Cycle Scheme
• Birthday/Special day leave
• Buy & sell holiday scheme
• 1 week’s paid charity leave and much more!