Job Title
Digital Experience Design Manager
Ref #
53932
Date posted
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Country
United Kingdom
Location
Bicester
Business area
Design
Department
Design
Position level
4
Working time
Full Time
Contract type
Permanent
Working pattern
37.5 Standard 9:00 - 17:00 (30 min lunch)
What to Expect
We’re seeking a Digital Experience Design Manager to join McLaren’s world class creative team. 
Reporting to our Head of Creative Strategy, you will be pinnacle in the positive provocation of 
digital look and feel, relating to traditional norms of UX design. You will have an emphasis on 
harmony between geometry and the digital A-surface, through an editorial and graphical 
eye. Leaning more into aesthetical layering over broader cross-functional applications of HMI, 
you will nevertheless collaborate deeply with the UI/UX teams to create high levels of luxury 
aesthetic, digitally.
What You'll Do
  • Manage team of all digital content, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for specific digital products and features across the brand, with a strong focus on the luxury digital look and feel.
  • Be the overall design taste maker for the digital A-surface, expertly advising on font, graphics and colours alongside the Creative Strategy direction, including CMF and wider materiality.
  • Build new and elevate existing cross-functional partnerships, communicating clearly and at an expert level for ultimate collaboration and integration of the digital design strategy onto HMI defined bandwidths.
  • Manage the conduction of comprehensive analogous industry research across the digital world of Fashion/Product/Architecture etc, feeding this into our automotive world innovatively.
  • Collaborate on a management level with software engineers and digital product managers to create a cohesive and strategic digital design DNA that enhances luxury customer experiences.
  • Manage team of digital creatives, guiding them to success and nurturing world class digital content as well as team morale, workloads and operational excellence.

What You'll Bring

  • Expert in industry-standard design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite/ Figma/future digital systems/tools for enhancement of design work.
  • Robust problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to iterate and refine designs based on feedback and testing outcomes. 
  • Ability to clearly articulate design decisions and the rationale behind them to senior stakeholders. 
  • Expert communication and collaboration skills, with proven experience working effectively within cross-functional teams and being an excelling team player. 
  • Proven people management experience guiding teams and implementing digital design strategies in previous roles. 
  • Degree in Design related field (or similar) or equivalent work experience in a Digital Design related role. 
What We'll Do for You

We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes:

  • Structured career development framework
  • 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
  • Enhanced company pension scheme
  • Discretionary annual bonus award
  • Private medical insurance and health cash plan
  • Life assurance benefit
  • Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service
  • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
  • Generous parental leave policies
  • A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice
Who Are We?

No restraints. No limitations. We don’t simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars.

It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks. 

McLaren Automotive commits to equal opportunity for all. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is at the heart of our impact, it drives our innovation and enables us to truly create something special. Join us on our journey. 

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