Senior Product Designer

About the Job

As a Senior Product Designer at Nourish, you’ll be advocating for our end users through practical design thinking and Lean UX, collaborating closely with your counterparts in Product and Engineering to create and enhance user-centric products.

The role and your responsibilities

• Design System Development (critical for this role): contributes to our new design system as part of overall impact, ensuring consistency across Nourish products and standards. Requires a strong design system background with experience in building components in Figma (including logic, states and variants etc.), accessibility, and governance. Must understand technical implementation and be involved in its day-to-day development as the system is in its early stages.
• User Research: Conducts user research in alignment with our UXR to understand user needs, behaviours and pain points. Utilises methods such as interviews, surveys, usability testing, and analyses insights to form actionable takeaways.
• Design & Prototyping: Creates wireframes, user flows and other design assets to effectively communicate design ideas. Develops high-fidelity prototypes to illustrate design concepts and user interactions. Collaborates with Product Manager and Lead Developer from initial discovery through to iteration, ensuring feasibility, value and best-in-class standards of our design solutions.
• User Testing: Plans and conducts usability testing sessions to gather feedback on design prototypes. Analyses user feedback and metrics to iterate on and improve the design. Presents findings and suggestions to both commercial and technical stakeholders.
• Collaboration and Communication: Works closely with Product Managers to align on user needs, product goals, and business objectives. Partners with Lead Developers to ensure the design is implemented accurately and effectively. Facilitates design discussions and workshops to foster a shared understanding of user-centric principles within the team.
• Documentation: Documents design processes, decisions, and guidelines to ensure continuity and clarity. Creates detailed design specifications and handoff documents for development.

What else are we looking for?

• Proven experience in UX Product Design with some senior experience, preferably within a collaborative, cross-functional team structure in a SaaS B2B environment.
• Sub Disciplines: Experience across more than one sub-discipline of interaction design, information architecture, research, visual or UI design is highly desirable.
• Design Tool Fluency: Proficiency in Figma, other design tool experience is a bonus.
• Design Principles: Strong foundation in user-centred design principles including WCAG accessibility standards and designing for inclusivity. Comprehensive experience of designing for both web and mobile applications delivering a unified user journey.
• Research Methodologies: Skilled in various user research methods (e.g., interviews, surveys, usability testing). Ability to analyse research insights and translate findings into actionable design improvements.
• Agile Methodologies: Embraces an iterative process that allows for continuous improvement in both design development and the collaborative process. Experience working within Agile / Scrum frameworks with the ability to adapt to evolving project needs is an advantage.

Nourish Benefits:

• 25 days basic annual leave, plus Bank Holidays
• In addition, we offer incremental leave benefit of 1 extra day for each completed year of service, up to a maximum of 5 additional days. This means long standing employees can enjoy up to 30 days of annual leave per year, plus bank holidays.
• Extra paid day off for your birthday
• Paid days off for volunteering opportunities
• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension
• Referral Bonus
• Health and Wellbeing platform including access to 24/7 GP & 24/7 EAP
• Counselling and support
• Variable impact workouts.
• Wellbeing videos including prompts for healthy behaviours
• Wellbeing, care and compassion leave policies
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Career Development opportunities and regular reviews
• Recognition and Rewards
• Social Events throughout the year

All positions at Nourish are subject to a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, references and receipt of the appropriate Right to Work documents.

Nourish is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we actively seek and embrace differences in thinking, experience, ethnicity, age, gender, faith, personalities and styles.

The different skills, experiences and backgrounds our employees bring to their roles creates a diverse and makes Nourish a special place to work