Lead Product Designer
16 hours ago
Belfast
LEAD PRODUCT DESIGNER | UP TO £90K + EMI SHARES | HYBRID (BELFAST) Few&Far are working with a fast-growing Series A AI-Scaleup Consultancy who are looking to hire a Permanent Lead Product Designer. 🚀 🏡 Hybrid Belfast (in-office x2 a week) 💰 Salary up to £90K Base + EMI Shares This is a player-coach position, building an AI-powered platform (think product builder + orchestration + natural language interfaces) used by companies in complex, highly regulated industries (such as Defence, Government, Financial Services, Healthcare). The role sits between leadership and execution - you’d be: • Leading and mentoring a small design team (line managing 2-3, with scope to grow the team as they scale), • Owning end-to-end design across their flagship AI product, in addition to oversight of other products in their portfolio, • Owning and evolving their design system and overall craft/quality, • Staying hands-on across UX, UI, and interaction design It’s a high-impact role with: • Real influence over product and design direction, • Strong growth trajectory (Series B on the horizon), • A genuinely good work-life balance (early Friday finishes + reduced summer hours - 4-day working week in summer months) Essential Requirements: • Strong full-stack design capability (end to end), • User research/discovery, validation of hypotheses, excellent craft, and experience shipping real products - not just polished UI, but clear thinking from problem → outcome, • Experienced owning a design system/massively contributing to design systems, • Portfolio requirements: demonstration of end-to-end design capability, from understanding a problem through to high-quality outcomes. Must have ability to communicate your journey/design process, • MUST be Eligible for SC Clearance Desirable: • AI-fluency, experience working on AI-enabled or AI-native products Candidates must have full rights to work in the UK without sponsorship, and must have lived in the UK for at least 5 consecutive years, to be eligible for SC Clearance.