Staff Product Designer at Deliveroo in London, United Kingdom - Deliveroo

Job description

• We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to join our London team. In this role, you will lead the design strategy for critical product areas, influencing the long-term vision of our platform and driving architectural improvements that ripple across the entire Deliveroo ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• You’ll be joining the Studio team. While your primary focus will be dedicated to the Deliveroo product, you will be part of a global design community that includes talented designers from Deliveroo, Wolt, and DoorDash. At the Staff level, you will play a pivotal role in this community, mentoring senior talent, cross-pollinating best practices, and setting the standard for design excellence globally.
• Define the product design strategy for high-level, ambiguous business challenges, ensuring alignment between user needs and long-term commercial goals.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to drive architectural decisions and platform-wide design standards.
• Champion a culture of design excellence by mentoring senior designers and fostering high-quality craft across the organisation.
• Identify and tackle systemic design opportunities that improve performance, accessibility, and user satisfaction at scale.
• Act as a bridge between functions, using your influence to align cross-functional teams around a unified product vision.

Requirements

• Extensive experience leading complex design initiatives from conception to launch within large-scale, high-growth environments.
• Proven ability to define and drive design strategy, successfully managing multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Demonstrated track record of mentoring designers and elevating the quality of work within high-performing teams.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex design visions and influence senior leadership.
• Deep technical fluency and a strategic understanding of how design influences engineering constraints and product outcomes.

Skills

Required

• Exceptional communication skills

Benefits

• At Deliveroo, you’ll do work that matters, solving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace that’s constantly evolving.
• We’re food lovers, problem solvers, community builders and more, brought together by a shared drive to make things better. Working here you can expect to:
• 🔧 Solve meaningful problems at real scale Work on a complex, always-on marketplace that impacts millions every day.
• 🌱 See your impact, fast Ship, test and improve ideas quickly in a low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment.
• 🧠 Grow through challenge and ownership Take on big, ambiguous problems and accelerate your career with strong support.
• 🌎 A culture built for builders High standards, collaboration, flexible working and continuous learning.
• ​​💰 Share in the success you help create Competitive salary and equity options, so you’re rewarded for the impact you make.
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