Senior Product Designer
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👋 About Noli
Noli is the future of Beauty Tech!
Backed by L’Oréal, we launched in 2024 with a bold mission: to solve the ultimate beauty dilemma — helping people find the perfect products for their unique needs.
Based in the heart of London, we’re a fast-growing startup reshaping the online beauty experience through AI-driven personalization, deep beauty expertise, and beautifully designed digital experiences.
We’re curious by nature, ambitious by default, and obsessed with craft. At Noli, creativity and technology go hand in hand — and we’re building a best-in-practice AI beauty business that’s as delightful to use as it is powerful.
💼 About the Role
As the Senior Product Designer at Noli, you are the functional lead for Product Design, responsible for elevating execution quality, innovation and systems thinking across our digital product.
Reporting to the Creative Senior Manager, you will translate overarching design direction into best-in-class, end to end product experiences. You will personally lead the most complex and forward-looking initiatives, particularly AI-driven features and new experience concepts end to end, while setting the standard for craft, pace and product thinking across the product design team.
This role combines hands-on design excellence with functional leadership. You are both a craft leader and deeply executional, owning critical journeys and shaping how product design operates day-to-day.
🔥 Key Responsibilities
1. Lead Product Experience Excellence
Own the design of our most complex and high-impact initiatives from concept to launch
2. Functional Leadership of Product Design
Act as the most senior Product Designer and functional lead within the team
Mentor and guide the other Product Designers in craft, process and best practice
Ensure consistency in approach, thinking and execution quality
Embed strong product design rituals, critique culture and structured thinking
3. Design for AI
Lead the conceptualisation and execution of AI-powered beauty analysis and recommendation experiences
Translate complex AI capabilities into intuitive, trusted and delightful user interactions
Partner closely with AI engineers to align user experience with technical feasibility
4. Own Critical End-to-End Journeys
Take accountability for high-priority journeys across discovery, onboarding, analysis, recommendation and conversion
Ensure journeys are coherent, intuitive and commercially effective
Balance innovation with optimisation to drive measurable impact
5. Drive Rapid Experimentation & Validation
Lead rapid prototyping and structured validation of new concepts before build commitment
Define clear design hypotheses and success metrics in partnership with Product and Data
Support user research activities and ensure insight translates into design decisions
Champion a strong test-and-learn culture within the product team
6. Evolve the Design System
Own and continuously improve the product design system and component library
Ensure scalability, consistency and efficiency across experiences
Align system evolution with the broader creative direction set by the Creative Senior Manager
7. Senior Cross-Functional Partner
Work in close partnership with Product, Engineering, AI, Brand, Marketing and Commercial teams
Contribute design-led thinking into roadmap discussions and prioritisation
Set the standard for strong design-engineering collaboration
Influence decisions through clarity, rationale and user-centred evidence
Translate creative direction, brand strategy, user insight and commercial goals into compelling end-to-end product experiences
Set and uphold the quality bar for interaction design, UX thinking and execution across the product
😊 About You
Experience & Craft
5–7+ years of product design experience in high-growth digital or commerce environments
Leadership & Systems Thinking
Experience mentoring or functionally leading other designers
Strong understanding of how to scale design quality through systems and process
Ability to balance creativity with structure and delivery discipline
AI & Innovation Mindset
Strong interest in AI, machine learning and emerging interaction paradigms
Ability to simplify complex systems into intuitive, human experiences
Bonus: experience with conversational design or AI-powered products
Technical Fluency
Figma, Miro, Jira
Strong prototyping capability including tools such as Lovable
Good understanding of front-end principles and technical constraints
Comfortable working in agile environments and fast sprint cycles
Ways of Working
High ownership mindset with hands-on execution strength
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and defining structure where needed
Strong cross-functional collaborator
Confident presenting and defending design rationale
Passion for beauty and consumer experience innovation
Exceptional portfolio demonstrating:
Experience designing mobile-first, commerce-led journeys
A passion for the beauty industry a strong bonus
⛳️ Compensation, Perks & Benefits
£80,000 Base salary & OTE
25 Days Holiday (+ UK Bank Holidays)
Private Healthcare
Family Leave
Noli Discounts
Cycle to Work Scheme
- Remote status
- Hybrid
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