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# Product Design Lead, Design Systems

- **Company:** Raydar
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £200,000.0 - £280,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cursor, Programming Tools, Software Prototyping, Claude Code
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5925381639

## About the Role

* 8-20 years of product design or design systems experience, with approximately 12 years a strong fit for the role's scope.

 * Prior Staff, Principal or Lead-level responsibility and the ability to combine vision and strategy with hands-on individual contributor work.

 * Experience designing systems, repeatable interaction patterns and UX frameworks for complex B2B platforms, horizontal architectures or developer tools.

 * Practical use of AI-assisted coding and prototyping tools such as Cursor, Claude Code or Codex; comfort working close to code rather than relying only on static design files.

 * Strong visual, interaction and user experience craft, including accessibility expertise.

 * A portfolio showing pattern-level work beyond basic component or token libraries, with clear ownership, trade-offs and outcomes.

 * Autonomy, pace and the ability to identify problems, bring partners together and drive solutions without heavy process.

Bonus points

 * Experience at companies known for strong consumer or mobile design.

 * Ownership of a complex design system within a large organization.

 * Experience building AI-native design systems or tools that automate design-quality evaluation.

 * Strong mobile interaction craft alongside experience with dense enterprise products.

## Description

As Product Design Lead, Design Systems, you will shape the patterns and design language used across the entire platform. This is a hands-on Staff/Principal-level individual contributor role with broad strategic ownership. You will partner with approximately 18 dedicated engineers and help define an AI-native approach to design quality, prototyping and implementation.

What you'll do

 * Design scalable, repeatable interaction patterns, UX flows and frameworks that go beyond component and token libraries.

 * Build patterns that work across dense product experiences and the growing mobile design system.

 * Develop AI-driven systems that define, measure and check design quality against shared standards.

 * Create AI prototyping tools and code-based checks that help teams produce high-quality implementations.

 * Own platform-wide initiatives from identifying a problem and setting strategy through hands-on prototyping and delivery.

 * Work closely with engineers, product managers and designers to improve craft and the platform's design language.