Senior Product Designer

Waracle are looking for a Product Owner for an exciting new role joining our world-class digital technology consultancy and home to a diverse, smart, curious and ambitious community of specialists in technology-driven transformation.

We work with ambitious clients to help them solve their biggest business and customer challenges. We help our clients to innovate and create intelligent digital products and services. We thrive on complex challenges and deliver business-critical IT transformation projects, moving seamlessly from strategy, design and delivery to operations.

This is a Hybrid role working from our Edinburgh office 2 days a week 

We're seeking an exceptional Senior Product Designer to join our growing team in Edinburgh. This is a pivotal role for a seasoned designer who thrives at the intersection of strategy, client engagement, and hands-on craft.

You'll be instrumental in shaping the future of digital products for our diverse client portfolio, guiding projects from initial concept through to successful delivery. You'll operate with significant autonomy, leading complex design initiatives, influencing senior stakeholders, and fostering design excellence within our consultancy. If you're passionate about transforming intricate challenges into intuitive, impactful digital experiences and mentoring the next generation of design talent, we want to hear from you.

What You'll Do: Key Responsibilities

As a Senior Product Designer, you will:

• Lead Client Engagements: Independently lead design initiatives on large-scale projects, serving as the primary design point of contact and confidently presenting to senior client stakeholders.

• Drive Strategic Design: Autonomously capture, define, and refine complex client requirements, translating them into clear design objectives. You'll deeply understand client Vision, Mission, and Objectives (VMO) to shape strategies that deliver measurable value with strong commercial awareness.

• Craft Exceptional UX/UI: Meticulously craft intuitive UX flows and visually stunning, high-fidelity UI designs from complex requirements, ensuring adherence to modern aesthetic principles and brand guidelines.

• Champion Design Systems & Accessibility: Lead the creation, evolution, and implementation of robust design systems. Define custom accessibility requirements, diligently test for compliance, and ensure all designs meet industry standards.

• Lead Ideation & Prototyping: Set compelling design challenges and lead client and internal groups through ideation, sketching, and prototyping sessions to explore innovative solutions.

• Mentor & Coach: Actively line manage, mentor, and coach junior product designers, fostering their professional growth, honing their craft, and sharing best practices.

• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work effectively in complex, fast-paced agile environments, adapting seamlessly to shifting client needs. You'll possess a strong understanding of how different roles (e.g., product owners, developers, strategists) impact each other, fostering seamless collaboration.

What You'll Bring: 

• Proven Senior Experience: Extensive experience as a Senior Product Designer or similar role within a digital agency or consultancy, with a portfolio showcasing strategic design, exceptional UX/UI craft, and successful client engagements.

• Autonomous Design Leadership: Demonstrable experience leading design initiatives autonomously on large-scale projects, including confident presentation and influence of C-suite and senior stakeholders.

• Strategic Acumen: Expertise in autonomously capturing, defining, and refining complex requirements, and translating client VMOs into actionable product strategies, complemented by strong commercial awareness.

• Data-Driven Insight: Strong analytical skills for complex data analysis and identifying critical design insights to inform decisions.

• Workshop Facilitation: Proven experience in setting design challenges and leading impactful ideation/prototyping workshops.

• Mentorship Passion: A genuine passion for managing, mentoring, and coaching junior design talent.

• Technical Design Expertise: Expertise in crafting exceptional UX and UI, building and maintaining design systems, and defining/testing custom accessibility requirements.

• Agile & Collaborative: Comfortable working with shifting needs and priorities in fast-paced, complex agile environments, with a solid understanding of cross-functional roles and their interdependencies.

The recruitment process you can expect for this role is an initial call with your dedicated Talent Acquisition Partner who will chat with you about Waracle, what you are looking for in a new position, the salary for the role, notice period and benefits (the important stuff!).

After that, you'll be invited to a two-stage interview process where you have an opportunity to find out more about the role and showcase your skills and experience. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will guide you through the whole process to your first day with us.

We have various events, days out, competitions and incentives throughout the year and here are some other benefits you can expect as permanent team member at Waracle:

• 🏡Flexible and Hybrid working

• 🏖35 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)

• 💸Matched Pension up to 5%

• 🤒Medicash Proactive Health Cover

• 🧘‍♀️Health and Wellbeing Support through Unum

• 📈Access to 1000s Personal Development Courses

• 🏥Group Life and Sickness Cover

• 🍼Enhanced parental leave

• 🤑Access to exclusive savings and discounts on top brands

Plus many more!

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.