Design Team Lead

Design Team Lead 

📍 Location: Bournemouth (at least 2 days in the office per week)
🕒 Type: Full-time
💰 Salary: £50,000

Grow people. Shape products. Make an impact.

At Cube, we believe design can make a real difference. From teaching life-saving first aid to helping refugee students stay connected, our apps and platforms have already reached millions of people. 

We’re now looking for a Design Team Lead to help us take things up a notch. Someone who can support and grow our designers, while still getting stuck into the work themselves. You’ll be shaping projects from discovery to delivery, setting the bar high for quality, and stepping in when a leadership presence is needed.

Beyond people management, this role creates the conditions for designers to thrive: shaping impactful products while keeping curiosity, inclusivity, and craft at the heart of our work.

What You’ll Be Doing 👩‍💻👨‍💻

As a Design Team Lead, you’ll be:

• Coaching, mentoring, managing, and running 1:1s with our design team

• Jumping into projects hands-on when your skills are needed

• Leading the team to deeply immerse in client and user problems - gathering evidence, challenging assumptions, and shaping a clear shared understanding before solutions are defined

• Raising the bar on design craft across research, UX, and UI 

• Making sure accessibility and inclusivity are baked into everything we deliver

• Improving the way we work - from design systems to tools and processes

• Collaborating with PMs, devs, and clients to shape feasible, effective outcomes together and ensure everyone is aligned on what really matters

• Representing design in pitches, client chats, and cross-team meetings

• Building a positive, curious culture that helps everyone grow

Who You Are 🧩

You’re an experienced design leader who thrives on balancing craft with coaching. You love elevating design quality, guiding product direction, and supporting people’s growth.

✅ Essentials:

• Proven track record leading, mentoring and managing design teams delivering high quality digital products

• A portfolio that shows you can take a product from research through to polished UI that supports intuitive user experiences 

• You’re skilled at immersing in the diverse problem spaces and using evidence and judgement to inform design decisions

• Confident with Figma and other modern design/prototyping tools

• Comfortable running workshops, critiques, and strategy sessions

• Clear communicator - whether you’re chatting with clients, stakeholders, or the team

• Happy to balance leading with rolling up your sleeves and designing

• A collaborative, adaptable and positive mindset - you know when to zoom into details and when to step back

• Experience with design systems - building, maintaining, and evolving them

• Curiosity about the evolving design landscape, with a proactive drive to explore and experiment with new tools, methods, and technologies - sharing what you learn to expand the team’s options and adaptability.

• Background in agency environments or working across multiple clients/projects

What We Offer

• 🏡 Flexibility at its Best - Hybrid or remote working, flexible hours and bank holidays, and a £250 remote working budget to set up your ideal home office

• 🏖️ Time to Recharge - 23 days of holiday (plus 1 extra day each year up to 28), with the option to buy 5 additional days annually

• 💸 Company Pension Scheme - Salary sacrifice option up to 10%, with Cube contributing up to 8%

• 🌍 Work Abroad - After probation, you can request to work from abroad for up to 2 months per year

• 👶 Enhanced Parental Leave - Up to 20 weeks full paid maternity leave and up to 8 weeks full pay for secondary caregivers

• 🧠 Wellbeing Support - Unlimited access to the OpenUp platform, Cycle to Work scheme, free eyes tests, and Company Friday lunches on us

• 💖 Giving Back - 3 paid days per year to volunteer for a cause you care about, and a birthday donation to a charity of your choice

• 📚 Invest in Your Growth - Up to £1000 per year for training courses, books, or conferences 

• 🐾 Vibrant Workspace - Fun, relaxed, pet-friendly office with an excellent coffee machine, various monthly events and free parking

• 🎉 Social Events & Celebrations - Regular team activities, remote and in-person events, beach cleans, BBQs, and our annual Awards Ceremony

If you’re excited about leading a team that designs products people love to use  and want to be part of a supportive, mission-driven culture, we’d love to hear from you!

👉 Apply now and help us design for impact.

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DEI at Cube

3 Sided Cube is an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds, who all share a passion for making the world a better place. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, and any other aspect which makes us unique. We can’t change millions of lives for the better without celebrating the diversity of those lives, and fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce within 3 Sided Cube is one of the ways in which we do that.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please reach out to us about potential reasonable adjustments.