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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, establishing design standards and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Your role will involve understanding user needs, designing intuitive products, and ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
Responsibilities
- Get to know the Newborns service, its users, and their needs.
- Design the User Experience, ensuring usability, feasibility, and viability.
- Input into the product vision, translating qualitative and quantitative insights into a product roadmap.
- Champion accessibility, designing experiences with a content designer.
- Apply NHS design systems and frameworks.
- Design to legal and regulatory requirements, working with healthcare professionals.
- Contribute to the wider design community, building a shared component library.
- Facilitate decision making and co-creation, bringing together diverse perspectives.
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.
- 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.
- 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 with examples of live delivery.
- 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 who embraces working with a diverse range of people.
- 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.
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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