Lead Product & UX Designer

Location: London (in-office)

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

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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 (DOE)

• Significant equity at an early stage in a market that is moving fast.

• 25 days paid vacation and leading parental and childcare policies

• Office-based, 5 days per week — we work best together in person