Job Overview
Location
London - The River Building HQ
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Design
Date Posted
July 4, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Lead the product design strategy for high-impact, ambiguous business challenges within Deliveroo’s marketplace platform, aligning user needs with long-term commercial goals.
- • Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to drive architectural decisions and establish platform-wide design standards that influence the entire Deliveroo ecosystem.
- • Mentor senior designers across the global Studio team, which includes designers from Deliveroo, Wolt, and DoorDash, elevating design quality and fostering best practices across regions.
- • Identify and resolve systemic design opportunities that improve performance, accessibility, and user satisfaction at scale across millions of daily users.
- • Act as a cross-functional bridge between design, product, and engineering teams to align stakeholders around a unified product vision and execution roadmap.
- • Champion a culture of design excellence by setting benchmarks for craft, usability, and innovation within the global design community.
- • Define and ship design solutions in a fast-paced, low-hierarchy environment with high ownership, enabling rapid testing, iteration, and impact measurement.
- • Influence product direction through deep technical fluency, understanding how design decisions impact engineering constraints and system scalability.
- • Contribute to the global design strategy while being primarily focused on the Deliveroo product, leveraging shared learnings from DoorDash and Wolt design teams.
- • Drive initiatives that enhance accessibility and inclusivity in product experiences, ensuring solutions serve diverse user bases across multiple markets.
- • Translate complex marketplace dynamics into simple, intuitive user experiences that improve customer retention, merchant adoption, and rider satisfaction.
- • Collaborate with global peers to cross-pollinate design patterns, research insights, and innovation frameworks across Deliveroo, Wolt, and DoorDash.
- • Own end-to-end design outcomes from concept to launch, balancing user research, data analysis, and business metrics to validate design decisions.
- • Communicate complex design visions clearly to senior leadership and non-design stakeholders to secure alignment and resource commitment.
- • Contribute to the evolution of Deliveroo’s design system and component library to ensure consistency, efficiency, and scalability across all product surfaces.
🎯 Requirements
- • Extensive experience leading complex design initiatives from conception to launch within large-scale, high-growth environments.
- • Proven ability to define and drive design strategy while managing multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- • Demonstrated track record of mentoring designers and elevating the quality of work within high-performing teams.
- • Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex design visions and influence senior leadership.
- • Deep technical fluency and a strategic understanding of how design influences engineering constraints and product outcomes.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive salary and equity options, so you’re rewarded for the impact you make.
- • Work on a complex, always-on marketplace that impacts millions every day.
- • Fast-paced, low-hierarchy environment with high ownership and rapid iteration cycles.
- • Global design community collaboration with peers from Deliveroo, Wolt, and DoorDash.
- • Flexible working and continuous learning opportunities.
- • Culture built for builders with high standards, collaboration, and inclusion.
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About Deliveroo Holdings plc
Deliveroo operates an online food-delivery marketplace connecting consumers with restaurants and grocery retailers through a logistics network of riders. Founded in 2013 in London, the platform processes orders via mobile and web, manages dispatch, and provides data analytics to partners. Revenue comes from commissions, delivery fees, and subscription memberships. It serves urban markets across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East, holding licenses as a technology intermediary and courier service provider.
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