Lead Product & UX Designer

Location: London (in-office) Seniority: Senior

THE ROLE

Searchable is building the platform that helps brands understand and improve how they appear across AI-powered search: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and beyond. It's a new category, and the product has to make that clear instantly.

This is a research-led, systems-driven design role. You'll own the full journey from user research and problem framing through to high-fidelity, production-ready prototypes that a design or front-end engineer can build from directly. There's no handoff ambiguity. The prototype is the spec.

You'll work in-office in London, embedded directly with the product and engineering team, and report to the founding team.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN

• User Research & Problem Definition
• Run structured and unstructured research: interviews, usability tests, behavioural analysis, and session data
• Translate findings into clear problem definitions and design briefs
• Build a research practice that compounds: documented insights, reusable frameworks, and a living understanding of our users
• Work closely with GTM and product to ensure research is connected to commercial reality, not just UX theory
• Product Design (End-to-End)
• Own the design of core product surfaces: dashboards, onboarding, reporting, workflow tools, and alerts
• Design for clarity and speed: our users are time-poor marketers and SEO leads who need to act on data fast
• Maintain and evolve the design system, ensuring visual and interaction consistency across the product
• Contribute to product strategy: you should have opinions on what to build, not just how to present it
• AI-Native Prototyping
• Use Figma, Claude Code, and Lovable to take designs from concept to interactive, production-quality prototype
• Prototypes should be detailed enough that a design engineer can build directly from them: no translation layer, no ambiguity
• Use AI tooling to move faster: generate variants, test edge cases, iterate in hours not days
• Stay current with what's possible; the expectation is that your workflow evolves as the tools do
• Design-to-Engineering Handoff
• Own the handoff process end-to-end: annotated components, documented interactions, responsive behaviour, and edge states
• Work directly with front-end and design engineers to QA implementation against design intent
• Flag and resolve discrepancies before they reach users

DAY-TO-DAY

• Plan and run user research sessions and synthesise findings into actionable outputs
• Design and iterate on product features across web and dashboard surfaces
• Build interactive prototypes in Figma and with Claude Code / Lovable
• Maintain the design system and component library
• Present work clearly and take direct feedback well
• Partner with engineering on implementation quality

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• 5 to 8 years of product and UX design experience, ideally in B2B SaaS or data-heavy products
• Strong research capability: you can design and run studies, not just interpret someone else's findings
• Equally strong visual and interaction design skills: research-led does not mean low-fidelity
• Genuinely AI-native: you use Claude Code, Lovable, and similar tools in your actual workflow, not as a talking point
• Figma fluency, including component architecture and design systems
• Comfortable working directly with engineers and reading front-end code well enough to have a real conversation about implementation
• Clear communicator: written, verbal, and visual
• Based in London and comfortable working in-office

STRONG SIGNALS

• Experience designing for dashboards, analytics, or data visualisation products
• Exposure to SEO, content marketing, or AI search tools
• Experience building or maintaining a design system from scratch
• Portfolio that shows research artefacts alongside final UI: not just pretty screens
• Evidence of working in early-stage environments where process didn't exist before you built it

COMPENSATION

£150,000 + equity