Senior Product Designer

About The Role at YouGov

We're seeking a Senior Product Designer to join YouGov's Public Platform team, focusing on public-facing data websites. In this pivotal role, you'll provide professional input on complex assignments and projects. A key aspect of this position is leveraging AI as a strategic design partner, utilizing tools to accelerate iteration and exploration while applying human judgment to guide creative direction and ensure outputs align with user needs and business objectives.

What You'll Do

• Work autonomously on complex design challenges, analyzing and resolving them through in-depth evaluation of multiple variables.
• Develop and implement creative and effective design solutions that align with company objectives.
• Exercise sound judgment in evaluating, selecting, and adapting both standard and complex design techniques.
• Utilise in-depth professional knowledge to develop design models and procedures while monitoring industry trends.
• Direct the application of existing design principles and contribute to new policy development.
• Adapt communication style and and use persuasion effectively when delivering messages to different stakeholders.
• Integrate AI capabilities thoughtfully into your design process, using automation to enhance efficiency while maintaining creative ownership and ensuring all solutions are grounded in user empathy and strategic insight.

Required Competencies

• Advanced wide-ranging experience in product design.
• Strong understanding of the interrelationships between different disciplines.
• Ability to determine and implement methods and procedures for new assignments.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to evaluate complex situations.
• Strong communication and presentation skills for conveying design decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage operational initiatives to achieve tactical goals.
• Track record of delivering measurable results within own discipline.
• Proven ability to integrate AI tools into design workflows while maintaining strategic oversight and decision authority.

Impact & Accountability

• Drive the achievement of medium-term goals through design initiatives.
• Take ownership of tactical design targets and deliverables.
• Accountable for meeting performance targets within assigned projects.
• Contribute to departmental objectives through high-quality design work.

Why join YouGov?

Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities. Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.

Life at YouGov

We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do. We strive to provide YouGovers with best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work.

Key skills/competency

• Product Design
• User Experience UX
• AI Integration
• Design Strategy
• Problem Solving
• Communication Skills
• Design Thinking
• Data Visualization
• Stakeholder Management
• Interaction Design