Lead Product Designer

TLDR

Shape engaging customer experiences through hands-on design leadership while collaborating closely with Product and Engineering to enhance operational workflows.

As Lead Product Designer, you will be responsible for shaping how customers and colleagues experience Shawbrook through our website and operational journeys that sit behind it. This is a hands-on role with real ownership: you will lead the design of customer-facing journeys while also considering the operational workflows, content management, that make those journeys work in practice. You’ll take responsibility for making experiences clear, consistent, and scalable — not just visually strong.

Day to day, you’ll work closely with Product and Engineering to design solutions that balance customer needs with delivery realities. You’ll contribute to the evolution of our key design systems and ensure it’s applied thoughtfully across the site, while also designing new journeys where patterns don’t yet exist. A big part of the role is helping teams move faster and with more confidence, whether that’s through clearer design intent, better reuse of components, or simply removing unnecessary complexity from how work gets done.

  • Proven experience in product digital design, with experience operating at senior level.
  • Proven experience owning and evolving design systems, including component libraries, patterns, and design standards.
  • Strong experience designing CMS-driven and operational journeys (e.g. Umbraco or equivalent platforms).
  • Comfort designing with real-world constraints, including regulatory content and operational approval flows.
  • Experience working closely with engineers and understanding how designs translate into build.
  • The ability to explain design decisions clearly and bring others with you.
  • A passion for creating best-in-class, inclusive, and accessible digital experiences that deliver measurable customer and business outcomes

Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:

  • Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
  • Free access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
  • Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause
  • EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing, and health
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Discounts on gym membership
  • Contributory pension scheme & death in service

Your Lifestyle - It’s important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when you’re enjoying your leisure time.

  • Minimum of 27 days holiday per year
  • Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme
  • Discounts on gym membership nationwide
  • Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
  • Community support and charitable giving

Your Contribution - We’re focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.

  • Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success
  • Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done

Benefits

Health Insurance

Contributory pension scheme & death in service

Other Benefit

Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands

Paid Time Off

Minimum of 27 days holiday per year

Wellness Stipend

Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause

Shawbrook is a dynamic banking institution specializing in providing tailored financial solutions that include personal loans, buy-to-let and commercial mortgages, and business finance for individuals and SMEs across the UK. Our unique business model blends deep industry expertise with advanced digital capabilities, ensuring a premium experience and flexibility for our diverse customer segments. By focusing on sustainable value and innovation, we deliver financial services that meet the specific needs of our clients in targeted markets.

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