Product Design Lead in London/Hybrid - National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)

London/Hybrid

Depending on Experience

Permanent

Not Specified

37.5 Working Hours - (Flexible)

11 Sep 2026

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Role Overview

We’re hiring a Product Design Lead to champion visual and interface design across Nest’s products and services. In this role, you’ll own the quality and consistency of our UX and UI, collaborating with brand, service design and product teams to turn ideas into elegant, intuitive interfaces that put accessibility and usability first. You’ll translate insights into high‑fidelity designs, streamline user journeys, enhance our design system, and work closely with developers to bring exceptional experiences to life, helping shape the future of pensions for our members, employers and partners.

The minimum criteria for this role are:

Significant experience as a product, UX/UI designer preferably within the pensions or wider financial services sector
Strong understanding of mobile and responsive design principles and accessible design by default
Experience working with and enhancing design systems
A portfolio of work showcasing high-quality visual design work across digital platforms
Proficiency with UX and UI design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Adobe, Sketch or similar
Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with other designers, engineering and product teams
Strong attention to detail while keeping the product vision and CX strategy in focus
Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, and communicate and defend design decisions to a variety of stakeholders

Personal Attributes:

Creative, curious and empathetic
Enjoys working with a team but can also work autonomously
Meticulous attention to detail with a passion for high quality design execution
Pragmatic, balancing visual excellence with delivery constraints
User-focused mindset with understanding of how visual design impacts user experience
Collaborative, confident in communicating and defending design decisions, and open to critique and iteration
Continuous leaner who stays current with design trends and emerging technologies
An engaging communicator

Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential.

Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.

Flexible and agile working

Everyone's personal situation is different.

To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
reduce or vary working hours
reduce or vary the days worked
work compressed hours
job share

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Directorate/Department Overview

The Customer Experience team creates user-focused experiences combining product ownership, design thinking, and business insight. We're responsible for shaping the experience across all customer groups—members, employer providers, and distribution partners—through various channels.

We prioritise delivering value through continuous feedback from customers and colleagues. Prototypes and mock-ups help us test ideas and refine experiences, while data guides our decisions and solution design.

Product owners lead teams in our b2b and b2c domains, prioritising features and owning the product roadmap. Our service design team focus on end-to-end journeys and service interaction contributing to a cohesive experience. Product designers turn insights into accessible, user-friendly interfaces. Business analysts define requirements and identify opportunities to improve.

We focus on delivering meaningful, easy-to-use experiences for our members, employers, and partners—driven by a product-led mindset.

Organisational Overview

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.

Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme.

We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.

If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact [email protected].

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