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Senior Product Designer (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds and London)
Genomics England • London, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the design of Newborns products, ensuring they are innovative and intuitive. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to define and realize the product vision and roadmap.
Responsibilities
- Get to know the Newborns service: What it is, how it works, and how it could transform healthcare
- Get to know our users and their needs
- Design the User Experience: Work as part of a cross-functional squad including engineering, research, product management and clinical staff to iterate designs, ensuring usability, feasibility and viability to deliver quality outcomes
- Input into the product vision: Work closely with the Product Manager to translate qualitative and quantitative insights into a product roadmap to deliver user value
- Champion accessibility: Design accessible, experiences with a content designer to ensure everyone can access and use the product
- Apply frameworks: Have knowledge and experience of applying NHS design systems and frameworks and utilise these in your design
- Design to legal and regulatory requirements: Work with a range of healthcare professionals to make sure our designs are compliant
- Contribute to the wider design community: Collaborate with other designers to build a shared component library and collectively improve design quality
- Facilitate decision making and co-creation: Bring together diverse perspectives, including the product squad, internal and external stakeholders and users, through appropriate methods to solve problems together
Requirements
- Substantial experience as a Senior Product Designer with examples of live delivery
- Experience working as part of a cross functional product squad
- Demonstrable knowledge of product design processes and methodologies
- Able to work end-to-end, from discovery to launch, and beyond
- Understanding of how to evaluate and interpret user research findings to wireframe and prototype solutions
- Knowledge of the WCAG 2.2 accessibility guidelines and general practice
- Proactive collaborator who embraces working with a diverse range of people such as designers, engineers, product managers, and researchers
- Strong organisational skills, including the ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines
- Desire to continually improve work through giving and receiving feedback
- Advanced proficiency with design and prototyping tools including Figma and Miro
- Experience using NHS design systems and applying regulatory best practice desirable
Key Skills
- Substantial experience as a Senior Product Designer
- Experience working as part of a cross functional product squad
- Demonstrable knowledge of product design processes and methodologies
- Understanding of how to evaluate and interpret user research findings to wireframe and prototype solutions
- Knowledge of the WCAG 2.2 accessibility guidelines and general practice
- Proactive collaborator
- Strong organisational skills
- Desire to continually improve work through giving and receiving feedback
- Advanced proficiency with design and prototyping tools including Figma and Miro
- Experience using NHS design systems and applying regulatory best practice
Benefits
- Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required)
- Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits
- Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), and a Give As You Earn scheme
- Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required)
- Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme
- Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs
About Genomics England
Genomics England works with the NHS to bring forward the use of genomic healthcare and research in Britain to help people live longer, healthier lives. Genomics is a ground-breaking area of medicine that uses our unique genetic code to help diagnose, treat and prevent illnesses. Thanks to advanced technology, scientists can now compare many people’s genetic code to make new discoveries that continually improve genomic healthcare. In 2013, Genomics England and the NHS launched the 100,000 Genomes Project, demonstrating how genomics insights can help doctors across the NHS, and building a foundation for the future by assembling a unique dataset. Genomics England is now supporting the NHS to deliver genomic testing for patients as part of routine healthcare, and providing the health data and technology that researchers need to make new discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines. We work with thousands of people – patients, doctors and scientists – to increase our co
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