Lead Product Designer (Design System)

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

• Lead a small team of product designers to deliver world-class, innovative, and intuitive evidence-based user experiences across web and native platforms.
• Own the Sky design system strategic direction, ensuring scalability, governance, and alignment with product strategy and business goals.
• Partner with engineering, product, research, and analytics to ensure system usability, performance, and brand consistency across platforms.
• Be responsible for system architecture, tokenisation, documentation quality, and design-engineering parity, while using AI tools and engaging with Design Ops to improve efficiency.
• Champion inclusive design and embed WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards across all components, patterns, and motion principles.
• Shape the end-to-end experience vision, define CX KPIs, and link design system adoption to measurable business outcomes.

• Demonstrated experience delivering world-class, large-scale digital products and design systems across responsive web and native applications.
• Expert-level skills with component libraries, token structures, and conditional prototyping for scalable systems.
• Mastery in accessibility to create inclusive experiences, using user research methods to understand customer problems and behaviours, and analytics tools (Usertesting, Adobe Analytics) to interpret user behaviour and analyse performance
• Proven experience partnering with developers on component implementation, governance pipelines, and code alignment.
• Strong storytelling, stakeholder influence, and resilience in fast-paced, evolving environments.

• Generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

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