Principal Designer

Contract Principal Product Designer

6 months initial | Outside IR35

Up to £550/day

Fully remote

A well-funded consumer subscription business is seeking a contract Principal Product Designer to lead design across its native app and wider product ecosystem. The experience has grown quickly and in places unevenly, so the need is someone senior enough to bring structure to it without slowing delivery down. The team is highly capable and design maturity is still being built.

As a Principal Product Designer, you'd work closely with product and engineering leadership, owning the design direction end to end across iOS, Android and the surrounding web and SaaS surfaces - from information architecture and core flows through to the detail of what actually ships. There's genuine scope to define the design language, the system underneath it and the way design, product and engineering work together going forward.

As a contract Principal Product Designer you'll be competent in:

• Leading design end to end on native mobile, grounded in Apple HIG and Material, alongside web or SaaS product surfaces
• Setting information architecture and navigation across a fragmented product, and unifying it into something coherent and scalable
• Building or maturing a design system, plus the documentation and rituals that keep it alive after you've gone
• Tying design decisions to commercial outcomes such as conversion, activation and retention, and being able to evidence the impact
• Partnering with product and engineering leads on roadmap and sequencing, and pushing back where the plan doesn't hold
• Raising the craft bar around you through critique, coaching and hands-on direction rather than headcount
• Experience shaping design capability inside a scaling consumer business, where standards are still being written, is an excellent advantage.

If you're a contract Principal Product Designer, seeking your next contract with a logo that will truly uplift your CV, then apply now and we can schedule a call immediately!

**Please note, due to the many applications we receive, not all applicants will receive feedback.