Product Designer Recruitment

A product designer looks after how a product works for the people using it, from the first idea to what ships. They shape the problem with product managers, map how people will move through it, design the screens and test them with users. They stay close to engineers while it is built, and return to it once real usage shows what to improve.

That range is what sets the role apart. Most product designers combine user experience, interface design and some research, and many now use AI tools to prototype and test ideas faster. Where a team needs a specialist in one part of the work, our UX and design and UX researchers pages cover those hires.

Consortia recruits product designers from senior to lead and founding roles, on permanent and contract terms across the UK, Europe, the US and the UAE.

How we recruit product designers

The company's stage will set the foundations of the brief. A start-up making its first design hire needs someone who can work without a design team and set up a design system. A scale-up adding to an established team may need someone who can slot into how that team already works.

Finding a strong portfolio is a given, and it is where the search starts. We look for work on a similar kind of product and a clear account of the designer's own part in it. Most clients then set a short design task. It shows how a designer works through a problem, and where AI tools come into their process.

Contract product designers are mostly remote, and often join to cover a gap or bring a design system together. Permanent roles range from one office day a week to four, so office days are discussed early alongside salary and notice periods. Most strong product designers are in work, so we approach them directly.