Product Design Lead

Daft.ie is Ireland’s largest property portal, with a mission to make buying and selling property simple for everyone across the country. With over 3 million users visiting our website and apps every month, we’re driven by the opportunity to enhance the home buying and selling experience. If you’re excited to do impactful work that reaches hundreds of thousands of people daily, this could be the perfect role for you.

We’re seeking a Product Design Lead who is a great UI designer and can combine strong Design leadership with a focus on user advocacy and measurable commercial impact.

• Partner with Product Managers to craft experiences that drive user engagement, conversion and advertiser success.

• Use research and data to find friction points in the user journey and identify high-impact opportunities that support Daft’s commercial strategy.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering and Commercial teams to connect user value with business objectives.

• Model high standards for design quality and execution, with a strong emphasis on UX/UI craft.

• Establish and evolve design processes that align closely with product delivery rhythms, ensuring design is a strategic partner, not a downstream function.

• Guide, mentor and inspire a small team of two experienced and talented product designers, fostering growth, collaboration and accountability.

• Lead user testing and usability validation, ensuring every major release improves experience and engagement.

• Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure smooth handover and pixel-perfect execution.

• Define a compelling design vision for Daft’s marketplace, ensuring clarity and consistency across web and app platforms.

• Champion the user’s perspective while balancing the realities of business goals, timelines, and technical constraints.

• Drive continuous evolution of our design system to enable scalability, speed and cohesive brand expression.

• 6+ years in Product or UX Design, including 6-12 months in a leadership or mentorship capacity.

Design is central to Daft’s mission of simplifying property for everyone. As Product Design Lead, you’ll:

• Shape how millions of users experience Ireland’s leading property marketplace.

• Nurture and mentor a design team that thrives on clarity, impact, and collaboration.

• Partner closely with senior product and business leaders to design solutions that balance user value and commercial success.

This is a role for a designer who is a master of UI/UX craft and also thinks strategically, someone who sees design as a lever for business growth, and who’s ready to leave a tangible mark on how Ireland moves home.

You will have the opportunity to work with one of Ireland's fastest growing Internet companies. You will get the chance to create a significant contribution to our strategic direction. Projects are exciting and employees are given wide scope for creativity and innovation

We exist to make buying and selling in Ireland simple.

We put our people first, creating an inclusive environment where we can develop products that put our users first. We value people’s work and time, creating a community where they have an opportunity to make an impact and grow.

Our challenge is to enhance our market-leading products using insights and empathy to present our users with the perfect match.

What we build is technology, but what we do is create connections for life’s most meaningful moments. We are Distilled and we bring people together.

We have five core values: We have a growth mindset. We like to simplify things and make things happen. We collaborate across teams, business units and brands. We're passionate about what we do.

These values give us a framework for leadership and daily decision making. They embody how we behave and present ourselves — as individuals and as a business — both internally and externally for our colleagues, our users and our customers.

We are a diverse bunch of people here in Distilled, and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our Company. We do not discriminate based on gender, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race and membership of the Traveller community.