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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Product Design Lead - **Company:** Ondato - **Location:** London, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Software as a Service, Interaction Design - **Published:** July 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2866914512-2 ## About the Role * 5+ years of experience in UX, UI, or Product Design, ideally within SaaS, fintech, regtech, or other complex digital products. * 3+ Years in Design leadership role, with experience managing teams and driving design strategy. * Strong portfolio demonstrating product thinking, design craft, user-centered problem solving, and measurable business impact. * Hands-on involvement across the full product development from concept to launch with a clear understanding of the challenges at each stage. * Strong expertise in interaction design, information architecture, visual design, and usability principles. * Experience in leading customer workshops and discovery sessions to translate complex needs into simple, actionable design solutions. * Experience building and maintaining design systems used by product teams. * Ability to balance customer needs, business goals, technical constraints, and regulatory requirements. * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and inspire across technical and non-technical audiences * Curiosity, ownership mindset, critical thinking, and a passion for creating intuitive experiences for complex products. ## Description We're looking for a Product Design Lead to drive the user experience and design quality across Ondato's platform. This role combines hands-on product design with design leadership, helping us create intuitive, trustworthy, and efficient experiences for fintechs, platforms,and regulated businesses. You will build and lead a team of designers, establish design best practices, and help grow a strong design culture across the organization. What You'll Do * Define and own the design strategy aligned with product and business goals. * Oversee the end-to-end product design process, from discovery to prototyping, testing, and delivery. * Partner closely with Product managers, Engineers, and customer-facing teams to ensure seamless integration of design into the product development and customer value delivery. * Build a deep understanding of customers and their needs through research, interviews, usability testing, and data analysis to guide design decisions and product improvements. * Advocate for design excellence across the organization, influencing stakeholders at all levels. * Own and evolve Ondato's design system, ensuring consistency, scalability, accessibility, and design quality across products. * Establish UX/UI standarts and best practices and advocate for customer-centric decision-making across teams. * Build, lead and mentor a high-performing design team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. * Monitor and measure the impact of design on user engagement and satisfaction, using data and experimentation to inform decisions. * Leverage AI tools and modern design workflows to accelerate research, ideation, prototyping, and design validation. ## Related Videos - [Building Collaborative Open Source tools for Developers and Designers - Pablo Ruiz-Muzquiz from Penpot](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1345-building-collaborative-open-source-tools-for-developers-and-designers-pablo-ruiz-muzquiz-from-penpot) - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) - [Beyond the Hype: Building Trustworthy and Reliable LLM Applications with Guardrails](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1594-beyond-the-hype-building-trustworthy-and-reliable-llm-applications-with-guardrails) - [Design as an algorithm, not as a feature](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/471-design-as-an-algorithm-not-as-a-feature) - [The Innovation Formula: Fast Prototyping, Data Analysis, and Real User Insights](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1421-the-innovation-formula-fast-prototyping-data-analysis-and-real-user-insights) - [Insight into AI-Driven Design](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1016-insight-into-ai-driven-design) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [The future is here: How artificial intelligence is influencing UX design](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/65-the-future-is-here-how-artificial-intelligence-is-influencing-ux-design) - [What is product discovery and why do developers need it?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/517-what-is-product-discovery-and-why-do-developers-need-it) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers)