Product Designer, Raspberry Pi Foundation
£36-42k
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Charity helping young people learn computing and digital making
Be an early applicant
Charity helping young people learn computing and digital making
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£36-42k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To put the power of computing and digital making into the hands of people all over the world.
Role
Who you are
- You must be eligible to work in the UK
- Demonstrable experience of working as a professional digital Product Designer or UI Designer
- Experience creating detailed finessed UI designs that meet both business aims and user needs
- Experience working with software engineers to design products that work within technical limitations
- Understanding of UX research methodologies and how best to test designs with users
- A proactive and self-starting nature, you should be a problem-solver and like to fix things along with being open to providing and receiving constructive feedback
- Excellent communication skills, the ability to clearly articulate your thinking and present to teams across the organisation
- Experience of working with a range of stakeholders
- An interest in education, especially related to computer science, physical computing, and digital making for young people
What the job involves
- In this role, you will report to the Head of Product Design and work collaboratively as part of a team of other Product Designers, User Experience Researchers, Content Designers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to create digital products that have a real impact for our users who are engaged with digital making and computing education globally
- You will bring your experience of creating build-ready UI designs which utilise UX best practice to implement new features and improvements across a range of products and platforms
- You will join an agile digital products team that works in Cambridge and remotely around the UK
- We use collaboration tools such as monday.com, Figma, and Slack to communicate effectively
- Deliver creative visual and UI design with best practice UX thinking, across our range of digital products that meets the needs of our different user groups
- Work as part of a cross-functional team who are passionate about ensuring our products provide meaningful and engaging experiences which delight our users
- Put users at the centre of the design process and validate your work by working with user experience researchers to test with users often and be able to iterate based on feedback and insight
- Clearly communicate ideas to stakeholders through presenting designs, prototypes and design thinking
- Help improve our ways of working including contributing to the development of our Design System
- Advocate for accessibility and be guided by the ICO’s Age Appropriate Design code to ensure our products are suitable and safe for young-people and volunteers
- Work across a variety of the Foundation’s digital products with a huge reach and the ability to have a positive impact on the lives of young people
Application process
- Closing date: 4 April 2025, 9.00am GMT
- Phone screen: Week commencing 7 April 2025
- First-round interview: Week commencing 14 April 2025
- Second-round interview: Week commencing 21 April 2025
- We’ll first organise a 20-minute phone screen, if you are successful, by two interviews shortly afterwards
- Interviews will be conducted remotely, and we can be flexible with scheduling to accommodate your needs. There won't be any questions designed to trip you up
- We’ll also ask you to complete a short task (with a week’s notice), which you should spend no more than three hours of your time on, and which you'll walk us through during the first interview
- This will include the opportunity to share some of your recent work
- We aim for the whole process to be as fair as possible, and we always value your feedback
Our take
Raspberry Pi includes the Raspberry Pi Foundation, which is a UK-based charity aiming to help young people acquire computing skills, and Raspberry Pi Ltd, which sells low-cost boards and ancillary equipment.
The company's business model involves selling low-cost single board computers and donating all the profits to its foundation. The foundation's activity consists in collaborating with schools to provide students with the opportunity to learn programming skills using its credit-card-sized computer, while also providing training for teachers
The Single Board Computer (SBC) Market size was valued at over $1 billion in 2020. In an attempt to increase its market share, the company raised $45 million in 2021 which was invested in developing its production capacity and expanding its product line of Pi microprocessors. Off the back of two rounds of growth equity funding in 2023, the company aspires to see its little computer being used by kids all over the world in their journey to learn programming.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2021
$45m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $45m
Company benefits
- Generous annual leave
- Retirement contribution
- Private medical cover
- Family leave policy
- Commitment to flexible working
- Wellbeing programme (Subscription to Headspace, weekly yoga and a dedicated Employee Assistance Programme)
- Life insurance
- Continued learning and development
Company HQ
Cambridge, UK
Leadership
Eben Upton
(CEO)Previously Software Engineer at IBM for 10 months, Founder and CTO at Ideaworks3D for 2 years, Visiting Researcher at Intel Corporation for 7 months and Director of Studies in Computer Science at St John's College - Cambridge for 3 years.
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