Product Design Manager

Why this role matters

As our first Product Design Manager, you’ll play a critical role in scaling product design excellence across Haleon. You’ll build the technical and operational foundations that empower our product designers to focus on what they do best—solving real problems for real people.

This is your chance to shape how product design operates in a global, purpose-driven organization. We see product design as beyond the pixels. Product Design starts from research all the way through to a continuous state of discovery and delivery of product experiences, measured against business impact.

Key Responsibilities:

You’ll lead the development of systems, processes, and practices that enable a high-performing product design function. Your work will span four key pillars:

People & Culture

• Support the growth of the product design team, onboarding, and wellbeing.
• Shape the development of product designers at Haleon.
• Champion the value of design across the organization.

Process & Practice

• Define and evolve product design workflows, rituals, and governance models.
• Ensure consistency and quality across all touchpoints against personas.
• Embed accessibility and inclusive design practices into our ways of working.

Tools & Systems

• Evaluate and manage product design tools across UX/UI design, user research and user experience metrics to support seamless collaboration.

Data & Impact

• Co-create, establish and operationalize an enterprise value framework across Portfolio, Product, Engineering, Design and the business to connect and measure user experience metrics with product and business metrics.
• Build dashboards and reports that communicate the impact of design to stakeholders.

Qualifications & Skills

Essential

• Over 8 years of experience in product design management or related filed
• Strong UX research and design expertise, supported by practical use of modern design tools (for example: Figma)
• Proven ability to align design initiatives with business objectives and product strategy
• Strong leadership in building, mentoring, and scaling high-performing design teams
• Skilled in planning and conducting user research using mixed methods to drive design decisions
• Demonstrated success in delivering end-to-end product design, from discovery to iteration
• Experienced in creating scalable design systems that support cross-functional collaboration
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across functions
• Strong storytelling capabilities to present design concepts to non-design audiences

Desirable

• Industry experience in healthcare, consumer goods, or other regulated environments
• Knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design principles
• Comfortable operating in matrixed organizations and cross-functional teams
• Experience designing AI-powered user experiences, with a clear understanding of usability implications

Opportunities for growth

Improving everyday health takes dedication. Energy. Effort. So we look to reward your contribution with a benefits package that includes:

• A competitive base salary
• Contract of employment
• Annual bonus that reflects performance
• Life insurance and pension plan
• Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible
• Sports cards (Multisport)
• Health and wellbeing program that take care of you physically and mentally
• Pension plan membership and savings program
• Recognition program that reward incredible contributions
• Hybrid@Haleon our philosophy to hybrid work
• Possibilities of development within the role and company’s structure

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At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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