Head of Product Design

At Flipdish, we’re turning the tables in favour of independent restaurant and takeaway owners by providing them with the tools they need to make their lives easier. We offer a suite of powerful yet straightforward tech solutions along with real human support, helping our customers thrive on their own terms.

Everything we do is designed to make running a restaurant satisfyingly simple in a world that’s anything but.

We’re looking for a Head of Product Design to lead, grow, and elevate design across our product as we scale. This is a senior role with real influence — you’ll set the design vision and standards — but it’s also a hands-on one. You’ll be equally comfortable shaping strategy and jumping into Figma, running workshops, or partnering closely with engineers and product managers to ship high-quality work.

This is a great role for someone who has led teams before, thrives in fast-moving environments, and still loves being close to the craft.

Design leadership & strategy

• Define and evolve the product design vision, principles, and quality bar as the company scales

• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Leadership to influence product strategy and roadmap

• Advocate for user-centred design and evidence-based decision-making across the organisation

Hands-on product design (IC work)

• Actively contribute to design work on key initiatives — from discovery through to delivery

• Lead or support complex problem-solving, UX flows, and high-impact features

• Review and refine design output to ensure consistency, usability, and craft excellence

Team leadership & management

• Build, manage, and mentor a growing team of product designers

• Provide clear direction, feedback, and career development support

• Create an environment where designers can do their best work and grow with the company

Process & collaboration

• Establish and improve design processes that scale without becoming heavy-weight

• Work closely with Product Managers on discovery, prioritisation, and outcomes

• Collaborate with Engineering to ensure designs are feasible, well-implemented, and polished

• Significant experience in product design leadership within a digital product or technology company

• A strong background as an individual contributor with a portfolio demonstrating high-quality, shipped work

• Experience managing and mentoring designers, with a pragmatic and human approach

• Comfortable operating in a scale-up environment — ambiguity doesn’t faze you

• Strong UX thinking, systems thinking, and attention to detail

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence at all levels

• A genuine willingness to balance strategy, people leadership, and hands-on design

• Our expectations: To challenge poor decisions and propose better ways of working. Constructive challenge is a responsibility. Prioritising harmony over truth or progress is a failure of responsibility.

We’re a growing startup and we understand that amazing incentives will attract amazing talent. Alongside a competitive salary, we offer unparalleled opportunities for career growth. If you’re smart, ambitious, and hard-working, we’ll do whatever it takes to make you a Flipdisher!

🏡 Hub Model: We encourage a healthy blend of hub and home working.

 🌴 25 Days Holiday: Enjoy 25 days of holidays per year plus plenty of company get-togethers!

❤️‍🩹 Healthcare Coverage: Comprehensive healthcare coverage for UK, Ireland, and US-based employees.

🎭 Team Meet-Ups: Regular social events and team meet-ups. 

We’re Flipdish, an Irish unicorn (valued at over $1bn), serving independent restaurants in a world transformed by tech. No matter how fast Flipdish has grown, we’ve evolved around our customers and their needs. We’re not just an end-to-end ecosystem of technology, but a team committed to supporting people in the food industry.  

We go to great lengths to understand our customers (check out our C-suite on work experience). We’re food industry natives. We’ve worked in busy kitchens and run busy restaurant franchises. We don’t just help our customers deal with real life problems, we give them a way of competing with the big chains, growing on their own terms, and falling back in love with what they do.