Product Design Director

About the role

As a Product Design Director, you will lead the product design team and shape the company-wide experience direction to ensure craft and quality remain central as the company scales. You will be responsible for embedding design into key product decisions and ensuring a cohesive experience across all customer-facing and internal platforms. This role involves both strategic leadership and hands-on contribution to high-impact initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the product design team, including line management of five designers.
• Define and uphold the experience bar across all product surfaces, including native, web, and back-office platforms.
• Ensure coherence across squads and journeys to maintain a unified system.
• Shape long-term experience direction and codify design principles.
• Mature and drive the adoption of design systems to enable speed and consistency.
• Partner with product and engineering leadership on strategy and complex trade-offs.
• Contribute hands-on to high-impact initiatives through visual and interaction design.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a cohesive end-to-end customer experience.

Required skills

• Product Design
• Design Systems
• Visual Design
• Interaction Design
• Team Leadership
• Strategic Planning

Nice to have

• AI integration

Benefits

• Private health insurance
• Income protection
• Tenure holiday policy
• Flexible working
• Home office setup
• Nursery salary sacrifice scheme
• Tech salary sacrifice scheme
• Holiday salary sacrifice scheme
• Retail discounts
• Quarterly team socials

About the Company

Midnite is a next-generation sports betting and gaming platform built for a new wave of players. The company operates as a high-performance team that values ownership, constant iteration, and fast execution.