Lead Product Designer

Lead Product Designer needed to help shape premium, content-rich and subscription-driven experiences across a portfolio of global media brands. This role sits at the intersection of editorial storytelling, CMS-driven design systems, and subscription product design, balancing strong brand expression with scalable platform consistency.

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This is a senior individual contributor role focused on hands-on execution, craft, and system refinement, not management. You’ll be expected to move quickly, improve quality across multiple brands, and elevate both content experience and subscription performance.

4 days a week needed in London office.

Circa £90,000 (possibly a little more for the right person, if needed)

Sponsorship is not being offered.

THE ROLE

• Elevate the visual and interaction quality of content-heavy and subscription experiences, with a focus on hierarchy, typography, and layout.
• Design within and extend design systems and component libraries used across CMS-driven platforms.
• Improve end-to-end subscription journeys (acquisition, paywalls, onboarding, retention, account).
• Translate editorial, commercial, and brand needs into clear, scalable design solutions.
• Partner closely with editorial, product, engineering, and marketing teams to align storytelling with subscription performance.
• Identify and deliver high-impact design improvements across multiple brands.

THE CANDIDATE

• Strong experience in CMS-driven, content-rich digital environments, ideally media or publishing.
• Proven experience designing subscription products (e.g. paywalls, sign-up flows, membership, retention).
• Strong editorial design craft - typography, hierarchy, composition, and content-led UX.
• Experience working with design systems / component libraries at scale.
• Ability to balance brand expression with system constraints in multi-brand environments.
• Experience improving conversion and retention journeys through design.
• Confident working hands-on in Figma and collaborating closely with engineers. xwzovoh

If this sounds like you and you have the relevant experience shown/mentioned in your portfolio and CV, then please do apply!