Description Nexl is looking for a Senior Product Designer to own design across the shared foundations of our product. This means the surfaces and systems that every user touches and every product team depend on, user management, notifications, permissions, settings, and other cross-cutting experiences, as well as the design system that underpins how the whole product is built. This is a newly created team, and you'll be one of its founding members. The team is deliberately lean: you'll work directly with our Head of Engineering, who acts as both technical lead and product voice for the squad. There's no PM layer. You'll own the problem space alongside engineering, identifying what needs to be built, shaping scope, and driving decisions from first principles. This is a dual-track role. Your primary responsibility is stewarding Nexl's design system, setting standards, evolving components, and ensuring consistency scales as the product and team grow. But you will also assist our internal shared systems team, shipping great product design for features that are used by all product teams. You'll report to the Head of Product and collaborate with designers across the wider product org. This is a role for someone energised by greenfield ownership, comfortable operating without a playbook, and motivated by the chance to shape both a product domain and a design foundation from the ground up. Requirements Platform product design: Own the full design lifecycle for shared platform surfaces: user management, notifications, permissions, settings, and other cross-functional areas used across Nexl's squads. Contribute to defining the problem space for your domain: identify gaps, surface opportunities, and shape solutions working closely with the Head of Engineering on prioritisation and scope. Partner closely with the Head of Engineering through discovery and delivery, from early problem framing to production-ready UI. Translate complex, interconnected workflows into experiences that feel simple and consistent to end users. Run discovery and validation independently, usability testing, customer interviews, assumption testing and iterate based on what you learn. Communicate design decisions and trade-offs clearly to engineers and senior stakeholders, influencing direction rather than just presenting work. Design system ownership: Own and evolve Nexl's design system: tokens, components, patterns, documentation, and contribution guidelines. Work with designers across product squads to drive adoption, resolve inconsistencies, and keep the system aligned with the live product. Partner with engineering to ensure design system components are implemented accurately and maintained in code. Establish governance: how components are proposed, reviewed, versioned, and deprecated as the product scales.
