Hybrid Product Design Lead

at Lindus Health

• Job title: Product Design Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Design Lead at Lindus Health focusing on elevating design practices for clinical trial solutions. Engaging in hands-on design while building a dynamic design team and processes.

Responsibilities

• Learn about the problems we are trying to solve in clinical trials through our onboarding training and conversations across the company
• Build relationships with the design team and understand their strengths, working styles, and growth areas
• Immerse yourself in the product by using it, observing real trials, and understanding user workflows and pain points
• Audit the current state of design: review recent work, explore the design system, and identify quality gaps and opportunities
• Join a product squad and begin contributing hands-on design work to build credibility and domain understanding
• Establish your role as the trusted design authority: provide thoughtful feedback on design work and begin shaping team standards
• Lead design for meaningful outcomes in your squad—ship high-quality solutions that demonstrate the bar you want to set
• Leading design critique practices and feedback rituals that help designers improve their craft
• Work with designers to refine design principles and patterns that can be applied across product areas
• Build working relationships with product managers and engineers across squads to understand cross-team dynamics
• Identify 2-3 foundational improvements to design operations
• Own the quality bar for design across the product: designers know they can rely on you for honest, constructive feedback that helps them grow
• Establish cross-squad design processes that ensure consistency and quality without slowing teams down
• Scale the design system with new patterns, components, and guidelines that reflect evolving product needs
• Coach designers on design thinking, systems thinking, and how to balance user needs with business and technical constraints
• Contribute to product vision and strategy in your area, bringing design perspective to roadmap and prioritisation decisions
• Strengthen user research and usability testing practices, making it easier for the team to stay connected to users
• Build the hiring and evaluation process for design roles, preparing the team for future growth
• Represent Lindus Health's design practice externally through talks, writing, or design community involvement

Requirements

• You have 6+ years of experience as a product designer, with a strong work examples demonstrating design excellence and systems thinking
• You have experience successfully leading designers, and establishing design standards and practices that elevate quality across teams
• You've worked in empowered, cross-functional product teams, leading continuous discovery habits and balancing fast learning with quality design
• You have experience designing complex systems with multiple user types, interconnected workflows, and nuanced data constraints
• You apply first principles thinking to distill complex problems to their core, avoiding unnecessary complexity and finding elegant, simple solutions
• You've experienced well-functioning design systems and practices at scale, and know how to adapt and implement them in fast-moving, evolving product environments
• You have an unbounded curiosity about the future of human health and the role clinical trials play in it

Benefits

• Competitive salary, plus meaningful stock options
• Flexible working: We have an incredible office near London Bridge and encourage people to work 3 days per week from the office
• 30 days annual leave in addition to Bank Holidays
• £60 monthly wellness allowance, which you can spend on our company health insurance scheme through AXA, a wellhub membership, or wellness activities and expenses of your choice!
• Enhanced Parental Leave: 16 weeks full pay for primary caregiver and 6 weeks full pay for secondary caregiver
• £1,000 Learning and Development allowance each year to put towards courses, certifications, and development
• Regular whole company and team events, both in person and virtually.
• Access to gym and retail discounts through our benefits platform Happl
• A well-stocked pantry and drinks fridge, Monday breakfast spread and catered team lunch on a Thursday for the UK office every week!
• Cycle-to-work scheme and other salary sacrifice options available
• Charity events and fundraising opportunities through our charity partnership with the Forward Trust.