Head of Product Design

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £125k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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Arbor Education

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

💰 Private Equity Round on 2020-12

Education • B2B • Software

Arbor Education is a rapidly expanding company dedicated to transforming the way schools operate by freeing staff from administrative tasks and enhancing collaboration. Utilizing a Management Information System (MIS), Arbor Education provides tools to improve school processes and educational outcomes for over 5,000 schools. Their mission-driven team, consisting of ex-teachers, education technology engineers, and specialists, is passionate about providing effective solutions to improve the educational sector. Founded in 2011, Arbor Education is driven by a commitment to innovation and the well-being of teachers and students, along with a dedication to diversity and inclusion in its workforce.

📋 Description

• Set and own design strategy, direction, and standards across Arbor’s expanding product portfolio • Advocate for design at leadership level and represent design in product strategy and roadmap decisions • Line-manage, prioritise, grow, and mentor the product design team • Define design standards, systems, and ways of working • Embed designers into product teams for focused periods of important and innovative work • Collaborate with product leadership to build long-term product strategy • Integrate design practices, standards, and systems as products and acquired companies join the portfolio • Champion usability best practices through user research, testing, and feedback analysis • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders on UX and UI improvements • Foster innovation and collaboration across product design, product management, and engineering • Stay current with UX/UI trends and explore AI’s impact on design and cross-functional workflows

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience designing within B2B SaaS products • Experience operating as part of a product leadership team and advocating for design to senior non-design stakeholders • Experience running a central or agency-style design function • Experience setting design standards, systems, and ways of working • Experience embedding designers into other teams for focused work • Experience integrating teams, products, or ways of working following acquisitions or major organisational change, or a clear appetite to do so • Genuine enthusiasm for agentic and AI-augmented ways of working • Strong experience of and empathy for product management practices • Proficiency in tools such as Figma, Storybook, Cursor, and Claude • Excellent communication and collaboration skills • Experience leading and mentoring a team of designers • Deep understanding of user research methodologies, information architecture, and interaction design principles • Entrepreneurial mindset suited to a fast-paced, high-growth environment • Visa sponsorship is unavailable

🏖️ Benefits

• Dedicated wellbeing team with mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, and mental health first aid training • 32 days holiday plus Bank Holidays • Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary • Comprehensive wellness benefit through AIG Smart Health, including 24/7 virtual GP, mental health support, counselling, and personalised health checks • Private Dental Insurance with Bupa • Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows • Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity leave (6 weeks full pay) • 5 free return-to-work maternity coaching sessions • Access to Calm and Bippit financial wellbeing coaching • Flexible working • Social committees and team, office, and company-wide events • Dedicated professional development training budget • One paid volunteer day each year • Referral voucher valued up to £200