Product Design Lead

📣 A bit about the role:

Butternut Box is on the lookout for a Product Design Lead to steer our design team in delivering high quality digital experiences for our expanding customer base. This role is ideal for a proven designer eager to be in a leadership role who has strong convictions about design excellence.

In this role, you will manage a small team of senior designers, fostering their growth and championing the impact of good design throughout the business. Reporting to the Head of Product, you will co-develop the product vision and strategy, ensuring our designs meet the high standards our customers expect and love.

What you'll do:

• Manage a team of senior designers, setting objectives that encourage innovation and high-quality outcomes.
• You’ll report into the Head of Product and work with them to craft and implement a compelling product vision strategy that aligns with business goals and fosters excellent design decisions.
• Advocate robust, user-centered design principles throughout the organisation, effectively communicating design direction and decisions to senior executives.
• Though this role won’t sit on a sprint team, you should be willing and ready to dive into design work yourself, actively contributing to projects and demonstrating best practices in design execution.
• Develop and refine our design processes and systems, ensuring they support effective, scalable design practices in line with our brand identity.
• Utilise various design tools and methodologies to continuously enhance our product offerings based on user testing, research, and A/B testing feedback.

👋 A bit about you:

• You have a strong, well-formed opinion about what good design is and are not shy about expressing and defending these views.
• While extensive management experience is not required, you should be able to provide strong examples of effectively leading a team and fostering individual development.
• Your background includes a solid track record in digital product design, ideally in the e-commerce space, demonstrating a deep understanding of integrating user needs with business objectives.
• You’re comfortable and adaptable in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment, where agility and quick decision-making are key.
• Excellent communication skills, adept at explaining complex design concepts and strategies to a broad audience.
• Experienced in using Figma.
• Hands-on approach to design, happy to lead by example in crafting user-centered solutions.
• Obsessed with dogs. Naturally.

🐶 A bit about us. 

At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That’s why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at home. Delivered in perfect portions.

As a B-Corp certified company; you can be sure you are joining a sustainable company who care about our people, product and our impact on the environment.

Our goal is to help dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives whilst leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We’ve come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, we now feed a lot of dogs across the UK - but we want to feed dogs everywhere. And to do this, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work with us. 

 🙌 A bit about what we offer.

• 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) and an additional day for every year of service 
• 5 paid 'paws' days per year to support to learning and/or wellbeing
• £500 personal learning & development budget 
• Butternut Box employee discount 
• Enhanced parental leave
• Co-working office space. 
• Flexible working hours and work from home options 
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension with NEST
• Private Medical Insurance with Vitality
• Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
• Time off for fertility treatments and pregnancy loss
• Paid sabbaticals for squad members with 5 or more years at Butternut
• Discounted gym access through MyGymDiscounts
• Lots of office dogs (Ajax, Brio, Basil, Chorizo, Lenny, Jasper, Peggy, Pip and many more….)

❗️A few things to note: 

• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• As our business has grown so has our responsibility to our community, our planet and our business. We are not perfect, but we are committed to doing business the right way and continually improving our social and environmental performance.
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.

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