Head of Product Design

About this role

About Bark

Bark is an online services marketplace connecting customers with professionals across over 1,000 categories. Operating in nine countries including the UK, US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, we're transforming how people find trusted service providers for everything from home improvement to professional services.

Our platform uses cutting-edge technology to match customers with the right professionals quickly and efficiently. With a global team of over 220 people, we're currently undergoing an exciting transformation: migrating from a lead generation model to a full marketplace platform with subscription based pricing.

As a profitable, PE backed scale up (EMK Capital), Bark offers the best of both worlds: the agility and innovation of a fast moving business combined with financial stability and resources for growth. We recently launched our new marketplace model in Australia (Q4 2025) and are preparing for rollout to the UK and US markets in 2026. You'll have genuine ownership, responsibility, and the opportunity to shape our commercial strategy during a pivotal transformation phase with the chance to make your own contribution to our journey.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced, hands-on Design leader to join our team, and help Bark build on our design foundations to match our marketplace ambitions. Reporting to the CPO, you will own Bark’s Design vision, culture and visual identity. You’ll set a clear and aspirational view of our future, whilst driving human-centric design principles and visual consistency across the Bark experience - our product, marketing and content.

You’ll join an established team, coaching and mentoring 4 Product Designers, 1 Marketing Designer and 1 UX Researcher, driving quality from within whilst collaborating with stakeholders from across the business to deliver impact in squads and workstreams.

This is a hands-on leadership role, you'll set the standard by doing, not just directing. In practice ...