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 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 2. 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 3. 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 4. 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