Reporting To : Product Manager
Salary : £65,000 – £75,000 dependent on experience
Working Location : Hybrid | 2 days a week in our Old Street office if London based or 2 days a month in office if outside of London
Product Management | SaaS | PropTech
🏢 About Buildscout
Buildscout empowers property and construction professionals by transforming planning application data into valuable business opportunities. Backed by Searchland – the UK’s leading B2B PropTech platform – we’re scaling rapidly and expanding the impact of our product.
We’re now hiring a Senior Product Designer (UI/UX) to elevate how users interact with our data-rich, insight-driven platform. You’ll partner closely with our Product Manager, Senior Engineer, Commercial Director, and wider Searchland team to craft intuitive, functional experiences that deliver real customer value.
🎯 What You’ll Do
- Design Product Experiences End-to-End
- Lead design across the full product lifecycle: from problem framing through to shipped solutions and iteration
- Create low-fidelity wireframes and flows to explore ideas quickly during discovery.
- Produce high-fidelity UI designs, prototypes, and interaction patterns that bring solutions to life.
- Iterate designs based on user feedback, internal reviews, and technical input from engineering.
- Challenge assumptions and push for clarity when problems are vague or poorly defined
- Maintain & Evolve the Design System
- Own the upkeep of new components, patterns, and UX guidelines to our design system as the platform evolves.
- Work with engineering to ensure components are implemented consistently and remain scalable.
- Identify re-usable patterns that make the product faster to build and easier to use
- Collaborate Closely With Product & Engineering
- Work with Product and Engineering to define what we should build, not just how it looks
- Help shape the product roadmap, not just sprint delivery
- Provide engineering-ready assets and support developers during implementation to ensure high-quality delivery.
- Run regular UX audits to identify areas where consistency or usability needs to be improved.
- Measure & Improve What You Ship
- Review analytics, session recordings, and qualitative feedback after releases to understand how users interact with new features.
- Identify UX issues or opportunities for newly released features, Own iteration and proposed improvements.
- Focus on outcomes (activation, conversion, retention), not just outputs.
🌟 You Are:
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Organised – Keeping roadmaps, priorities, and timelines crystal clear.
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Forward-thinking – Anticipating user and industry needs before they become urgent.
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Decisive & confident – Comfortable making calls and owning them.
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Opinionated – You have a clear view on what good looks like and can defend it
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Product-minded – You think in terms of user value, not just UI
We’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-moving startup environment and brings a mix of strategic thinking, organisation, and innovative design skills.You’ll be designing for a data-heavy product used by busy contractors. The key challenge is turning raw planning data into something actionable, fast, and commercially valuable.
🎯 Essential Experience
- Right to work in the UK.
- 5+ years in Product Design or UI/UX roles, ideally within SaaS or startups.
- Strong portfolio clearly showing end-to-end ownership, demonstrates systems thinking, design process, and problem-solving in complex products.
- Proficiency with Figma for wireframes, flows, prototypes, and design system components.
- Experience collaborating closely with engineering in agile sprint environments.
➕ Desired Experience
- Exposure to PropTech, B2B tools, or data-heavy interfaces.
- Understanding of front-end principles (e.g., component-driven development, responsive design, constraints).
- Familiarity with the UK property/land market.
Interview Process
- 30 minute introductory call with HR Team
- 30 minute interview with Buildscout’s Senior Product Manager
- Design task followed by an interview with Searchland’s Lead Product Designer
- Final stage interview with a member of the Senior Leadership Team
🌱 Why Join Us?
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Hybrid working: 2 days/week in our Old Street office
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Compensation : Competitive salary, salary sacrifice pension scheme, EMI Scheme
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Time off & wellbeing: 25 days holiday + bank holidays, birthday off, Christmas shutdown, private dental and healthcare
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Growth & development: Mentoring, clear progression paths, £500 annual personal growth fund
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Tools & perks: MacBook and a home office contribution
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Culture: Monthly socials, team lunches, bake-offs, 3 Peaks challenge, and company trips abroad when targets are hit
🌍 Our Commitment to Inclusion
We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, or any other characteristic. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know—we are happy to support you.
