Wellcome Trust: Product Designer

Product Designer is needed in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom.

Client: Wellcome Trust

Location: London, United Kingdom

Contract: Other

Salary:

£53,089

Closing date:

Monday 4 December 2023

Contract type:

Fixed Term Contract (12 months)

The Wellcome Trust

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy, and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.

We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.

These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won’t be solved by science alone.

Where in Wellcome will I be working?

You will be part of the Experience Design Team within the Digital and Technology department reporting to the Senior Product Designer and joining our supportive community of UX practitioners.

Wellcome is an inspiring, friendly and creative working environment where you will be designing experiences and using technology in interesting ways to meet our ambition to use ‘science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone.’

We work on digital products that play a key role in what Wellcome does, whether it’s funding, policy and advocacy, Wellcome Collection Museum and Library, internal and data tools. By focusing on the people who use those products, you will help ensure they are solving real problems.

What will I be doing?

As a product designer at Wellcome, you will work in one of our cross-functional product teams to deliver user-centred services and products that meet business goals. You will be responsible for the user experience of Wellcome’s digital products, either as the sole product designer or in collaboration with a senior product designer.

You will work across all the stages of the product lifecycle: from discovery and ideation to final delivery and high-fidelity implementation.

As a Product Designer, you will:

• Collaborate with product managers, developers, fellow designers, user researchers and company leaders to drive to the heart of a problem space and articulate clear requirements
• Produce thoughtful, highly usable designs that balance user needs, technical constraints and business goals
• Create user experience, information architecture and interaction design elements of digital products
• Make sure all designs align with the Wellcome design system, and contribute improvements to the design system
• Be the owner of the risk and control environment for your area and be accountable for the quality of you and your team’s outputs
• Contribute to a diverse and inclusive culture across the organisation, collaborating across departments.

Is this job for me?

We’re looking for a product designer, to create easy-to-use, thoughtful product experiences and engaging interfaces, to join our evolving and ambitious team at Wellcome.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has a strong portfolio showcasing a range of work across multiple projects and products
• Is experienced working iteratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Has extensive experience using prototypes to explore ideas, communicate design options, decisions, and test designs with real users
• Has experience working on digital products that cater to a wide range of users, and of web and digital accessibility, knowledge of inclusive design practices
• Is able to identify and deliver design deliverables from sketching to prototypes
• Is able to develop effective, collaborative working relationships and work well in a team to achieve results

If you don’t tick these boxes, don’t worry, we’ll we help you develop these skills and more.

To apply please upload your current CV and complete our short application.

Interview dates:

Week commencing 11th December 2023

You can view the full job description on our website.

You can read more about the benefits we offer our employees on our website.

Our Hybrid Way of Working

We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best. We are currently working 2 days per week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays) from our Euston Road offices (as part of our hybrid Ways of Working) with the remaining 3 days from home.

Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do

Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition.

Upon a conditional offer being made, the successful applicant for this position will be required to undertake a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (or equivalent) criminal record check to disclose any ‘unspent’ criminal convictions or conditional cautions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The criminal record check with not show anything that is ‘spent’.

For further guidance on disclosure of criminal records please see this UK Government Guidance. You can view our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-offenders here. You can view our Privacy Statement here.

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