Red Badger

Product Designer

• Successfully delivering client outcomes across multiple teams and programmes
• Consulting the client to define and execute a winning product strategy
• Ensuring the quality of digital product development using Human-centred, Lean and Agile methodologies
• Empowering, coaching, mentoring, and supporting product designers
• Product Discipline Leadership
• Lead and support the design strategy and implementation from discovery through to delivery
• Focus on delivering value with your designs, while balancing agility in delivery with holistic thinking
• Design and facilitate business value proposition and other creative workshops and design sprints
• Work within a cross-disciplinary digital team on design and front-end implementation through creation of design systems, style guide, prototypes and other assets to bring product ideas to life
• Work in Agile/Lean methodologies to experiment and make data-driven decisions for your designs
• Drive continuous improvement and quality by championing design principles and the value they bring
• Engage clients and your team to ensure the proposed design balances business goals and technical constraints in addition to user needs
• Seed and scale design strategy and systems across a programme of work.
• As a leader and consultant, you inspire and influence to take people on a journey and get shared and early buy-in for the design process and the outcomes
• Contribute at a leadership level to the overall success of the Red Badger client engagement with commercial awareness and input into account strategy
• Coach and align your team and your clients on Design Thinking, Lean, and Human-Centred Design
• Guide and support colleagues and stakeholders through the divergent and convergent cycles in the process and make them feel safe in the ambiguity and discomfort through tact, empathy and conviction
• Work with Directors on sales activities supporting shaping and closing new sales opportunities
• Collaborate with the Principal Delivery and Technology roles to give delivery teams space and autonomy to thrive
• Support product roadmap activities to shape user-centric backlog and high-value delivery outcomes.
• As an influencer, you collaborate with clients and stakeholders to deliver business and user value through great product strategy and exceptional designs that delight the users
• Communicate with confidence about your designs and decisions with a broad range of stakeholders to successfully influence long-lasting change
• Set and implement a product design strategy and framework to solve large-scale and complex problems for our clients
• Align and actively manage a broad range of stakeholders on the product strategy and desired outcomes through influence and diplomacy
• Advocate and introduce user-centred, lean/agile processes to your clients
• Able to break down complex concepts to communicate the value of design and recommended approach to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Active contributor to developing the product design discipline within Red Badger
• Care for people’s careers and wellbeing
• Line-manage, support and inspire designers and motivate them to develop
• Support recruitment and growth of the design disciplines
• Proactively share knowledge with the rest of the team and elevate the design discipline within Red Badger
• Support the development of Red Badger’s design approach and strategy
• Fostering and facilitating a culture of valuable design criticism and feedback
• Elevate the role of design within the company and the industry.
• Provide product and design discipline thought leadership and contribute to the growth of the Red Badger brand in the industry
• Write and speak publicly about our design work and practices
• Champion Red Badger’s ways of working: cross-functional teams, continuously delivering value, building quality
• Be an ambassador for Red Badger, and an advocate for ‘doing the right thing’, ‘doing the thing right’ by supporting and enabling others to do so.

Freelance Principal Product Designer

Product Manager

• Define and drive clients’ product strategy and vision
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams in designing, validating, and building products
• Champion the product discipline on digital transformation projects
• Provide leadership and mentorship to team members

Senior Product Manager

Full-stack Engineer

• Providing engineering expertise and experience as a member of a cross functional delivery team, working alongside other engineers, designers, QA, delivery lead and a tech lead
• Employ modern development practices to ship high-quality software
• Ability to adapt to new languages and frameworks
• Choosing the right technology for the job, striving for simplicity
• Starting or continuing your journey as a line-manager
• Coach & support peers
• Providing support for digital products once they are live (depending on client needs)
• Pair programming with other members of the team, including designers and QAs
• Own the delivery of user stories end-to-end, working with agile principles
• Leading and supporting your peers in technical decisions
• Be an advocate for lean software development, building for what is required now
• Help break large deliverables into small, lean incremental user stories
• Actively contribute to agile ceremonies
• Proactively engage with clients to shape and move the project forward, including giving updates on the delivery progress and highlighting potential technical blockers
• Upskilling and embedding modern software practices in client teams where necessary

Freelance Principal Product Designer

Senior Product Manager

Senior Software Engineer