Senior Product Designer
Red Badger
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
About the role
- Successfully delivering client outcomes within a cross-functional team
- Consulting with client stakeholders to execute their product and design strategy
- Evangelising Human-Centred Design, Design Thinking, Lean and Agile methodologies to deliver quality digital products
- Supporting the growth of more junior product designers, and Red Badgers’ expertise
- Lead product discovery and design sessions with client and users
- Create and implement the design strategy, from discovery through to delivery
- Focus on end-user needs to deliver products with impact
- Create compelling prototypes to test with end-users and share with stakeholders throughout the product life cycle, using feedback and learnings to iterate
- Work on design and front-end implementation within a cross-disciplinary team, through creation of design systems, style guides, prototypes and other assets to bring product ideas to life
- Design and facilitate workshops and design sprints
- Experiment and make data-driven decisions for your designs, using Agile/Lean methodologies
- 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
- Influence stakeholders and get early buy-in for the design process and the outcomes
- Coach your team and clients in Design Thinking, Lean, and Human-Centred Design
- Influence product roadmap activities and backlog prioritisation, to deliver high value outcomes
- Communicate your designs and decisions with a broad range of client stakeholders
- Align client stakeholders on the product and creative strategies, and desired outcomes
- Advocate and introduce user-centred processes to your clients’ digital products
- Become a trusted advisor to your clients by collaborating with them to deliver business and user value
- Contribute to the development of the product design discipline within Red Badger
- Support the development of Red Badger’s design approach and strategy
- Proactively share knowledge with the rest of the Product team, and help to foster a culture of valuable design critique
- Lead the creation of the foundational design system during discovery, aligning product strategy, brand, and UX principles into a cohesive system architecture
- Design and govern a system that accelerates delivery while maintaining visual and interaction consistency across platforms and products
- Stylistic evolution of the overarching financial brand into a visual language and approach for the new product and business unit
- Work within a token-first approach, partnering closely with engineering to ensure seamless translation between Figma, Tailwindcss, and production code, with white-labelling capabilities built in from day one
- Collaborate on the development of a component library in Storybook, ensuring design intent, usage guidelines, and accessibility standards are clearly documented and maintained
- Embed WCAG 2.2 AA compliance into system foundations, ensuring the product is inclusive, future-proof, and ready for multi-platform growth
Requirements
- Experience working in lean/agile methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban
- Working knowledge of industry-standard tools, such as Figma, plus aptitude to learn and introduce new tools and methodologies
- Led product design implementation as part of a cross functional team or programme working closely with engineers, data insights, user researcher and quality assurance disciplines
- Experience leading design activities on a project, presenting design concepts to stakeholders and running workshops
- Designed mobile-first responsive & mobile native digital products
- In-depth knowledge and experience of
- Human-Centered Design
- Design Thinking
- User Experience Design
- Visual Design
- Deep understanding of
- Brand application
- UI design
- Design systems such as Atomic design
- Working knowledge of
- User research
- User testing, including preparing stimulus and moderating sessions when required
Benefits
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible working arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Human-Centered DesignDesign ThinkingUser Experience DesignVisual DesignUI designDesign systemsMobile-first designPrototypingUser researchUser testing
Soft skills
CollaborationCoachingCommunicationInfluencingFacilitationContinuous improvementStakeholder engagementProblem-solvingLeadershipAdaptability