Principal Product Designer

About Faculty

Faculty transforms organisational performance through safe, impactful and human-led AI. 

We are Europe’s leading applied AI company, and saw its potential a decade ago - long before the current hype cycle.

We were founded in 2014 with our Fellowship programme, training academics to become commercial data scientists. 

Today, we provide over 300 global customers with industry-leading software, and bespoke AI consultancy for retail, healthcare, energy, and governmental organisations, as well as our award winning Fellowship. 

Our expertise and safety credentials are such that OpenAI asked us to be their first technical partner, helping customers deploy cutting-edge generative AI safely.

Our high-impact work has saved lives through forecasting NHS demand during covid, produced green energy by routing boats towards the wind, slashed marketing spend by predicting customer spending habits, and kept children safe online. 

AI is an epoch-defining technology. We want people to join us who can help our customers reap its enormous benefits safely.

About the role

Reporting into the VP of Product, this role will assume leadership of the design capabilities across our Frontier platform, with a key focus on embedding design systems and implementing a design-centric approach to our product development. 

You will take a lead role in shaping and executing on the design strategy for Frontier. This role will see you apply design-led thinking to both technical and non-technical personas, as we help some of the world’s largest organisations improve the speed and quality of their decision-making processes with Frontier., As well as strategy and hands-on delivery of product design, this role will also see you leading a team of designers; setting direction, career guidance and pastoral care. 

The role will be highly collaborative - working closely with our product team, solution engineers, sales engineers and wider organisation to move the culture of our product to a genuinely design-centric one. 

What you’ll be doing

• Build, set and communicate the design vision and strategy for Frontier, aligned with Frontier brand values.
• Ensure that design work maintains a high level of creativity and quality.
• Building a high performing design team; developing team members.
• Oversee the creation and implementation of design assets including UI/UX, illustrations and relevant visual elements.
• Ensure consistency of visual identity and brand alignment.
• Work closely with product squads to integrate design into the development lifecycle.
• Be an advocate for user-centric design, championing best practices across UI/UX design 
• Ensure that products are user-friendly and rooted in user feedback while designed around specific personas.
• Stay abreast of industry and market trends; encourage experimentation and innovation
• Contribute to sales assets representing the value of the product.

Who we’re looking for

• A proven track record leading design teams to deliver successful B2B products.
• Strong portfolio showcasing expertise in visual design, UI/UX design, and branding.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Sketch, Figma, or similar.
• Excellent communication, and presentation skills.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, usability, and accessibility standards.
• Ability to think strategically and execute tactically, balancing creativity with business objectives.
• Demonstrable experience working on a technical, industry agnostic platform.
• Experience leading a team in a cross-functional environment.
• Curiosity in how AI will revolutionise business decision making.(and ideally experience of working with AI products)

What we can offer you:

The Faculty team is diverse and distinctive, and we all come from different personal, professional and organisational backgrounds. We all have one thing in common: we are driven by a deep intellectual curiosity that powers us forward each day.

Faculty is the professional challenge of a lifetime. You’ll be surrounded by an impressive group of brilliant minds working to achieve our collective goals. Our consultants, product developers, business development specialists, operations professionals and more all bring something unique to Faculty, and you’ll learn something new from everyone you meet. You’ll also have the opportunity to make your mark on a high-growth start-up now poised to expand internationally.