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Lead Product Designer

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.

Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

We are seeking an exceptional Lead Product Designer to drive the future of our Platform and Data Engineering tools. In this business-critical role, working closely with the Director of Product, you will lead a team that is not just improving efficiency, but pioneering innovative and intuitive solutions that empower our 1500+ engineers. Your work will directly impact our ability to deliver products and services to our customers, partners and couriers at an unprecedented pace.

You’ll work with multiple cross functional teams, prioritise using research and data to help understand the problem, before moving through the design process to deliver engaging, efficient and user-friendly solutions.

You’ll contribute to leading a vibrant, creative design culture and ensure that we have a clear user-centred vision for your areas of accountability, which aligns with our product strategy. You will work closely with your design peers around the globe, lead by example, and manage, coach and grow 2 Product Designers. All as part of a passionate UX team of 100+ UX designers, UI designers, product designers, service designers, researchers and writers across 7 countries.

Please note that this position is located in London (3 days a week from our office and 2 days working from home)

These are some of the key components to the position:

  • Vision & strategy: You’ll be comfortable creating tangible vision and strategy with the right mix of being business-led, inspiring, and challenging the status quo. Critically, you’ll be able to drive this forward with momentum and gain buy-in from senior stakeholders across the business.
  • Driving change & impact: Ensuring users are at the heart of roadmaps and product decisions to achieve the design strategy and leading conversations to ensure UX is part of every step of the process. Deliver product and commercial value through tangible outcomes that shape business roadmaps.
  • People & culture: You’ll be a manager who puts their people first, and prioritises their growth as much as your own. At the same time, you’ll be responsible for driving ways to improve the wider team's culture.

What will you bring to the team?

Aside from the basic skills that make an amazing lead - user-centricity, people-first, curious, data and research driven, to name a few - this is what we’re specifically looking for someone with:

  • Exceptional levels of UX craft - unpacking user problems, identifying opportunities and then delivering delightful solutions.
  • Ideally, experience in designing for complex, data heavy, tooling with either internal users, or in a B2B environment.
  • Strong influencing and relationship building skills to impact roadmaps, and help evolve ways of working.
  • An understanding of research practices, to understand user needs beyond the obvious.
  • The ability to push creative excellence in solutions while balancing business needs.
  • Strong prioritisation skills, with a calm and adept outlook to navigating change.
  • Comfortable dealing with ambiguous and complex problems.

At JET, this is on the menu:

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

What else is cooking?

Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site where you can find people's stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET morsels.

Are you ready to take your seat? Apply now!

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