Product Designer

About the Role

• To work as part of a product trio (with Product Manager and Business Product Owner) to design new digital platforms, services and solutions and to improve existing ones
• Own design workstreams from discovery through delivery and optimisation
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Product Owners and Technology to understand customer problems, define opportunities and design and test effective solutions that balance user needs, business goals and technical constraints
• Maintain, manage and improve the ELT Design System
• Measure and report on the impact of delivered product features

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office. 

About You

• Research & discovery: Experience planning and conducting user research with the ability to synthesise qualitative and quantitative insights.
• Journey mapping: Experience creating journey maps, service blueprints or service design artefacts that connect customer experiences with business processes and operational delivery.
• Product design: Experience designing digital products from concept to delivery balancing customer, business and technical considerations.
• Interaction design: Strong wireframing, prototyping and interaction design skills.
• Collaboration: Experience working within cross-functional product teams
• Communication: Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience presenting design work, facilitating workshops, and building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Design systems: Experience partnering with engineers on component libraries or design system governance.
• AI & emerging technology: Interest in emerging technologies, including AI-assisted product experiences and AI-enabled design workflows.

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies. 

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts. 

This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

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We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.