Product Design Lead, OVO
9 Month Fixed Term Contract
£70.8-90k
+ On-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
Open for applications
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£70.8-90k
+ On-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
We're on a mission to lower carbon emissions to zero by 2035, helping our customers reduce theirs at the same time - we call this Plan Zero.
Role
Who you are
- Possess at least 5 years of proven experience as a Product Designer in an end-to-end role, owning projects throughout their entire lifecycle—from conception and ideation to delivery
- Ideally have experience leading a small team of Designers
- Manage and prioritise your time, and your team’s time efficiently and autonomously
- Demonstrate solid experience in UX and UI design, showcasing impactful research and clear outcomes that have significantly improved both user experience and business objectives
- Experience working across a variety of digital platforms—including mobile (iOS and Android) and web—is essential. Demonstrating expertise with B2C products is required, with additional experience in B2B considered a significant plus
- Systems thinking and ability to implement established best practices and patterns to deliver outputs of high standards and accessible, inclusive experiences
- Ability to collaborate effectively within small, multidisciplinary teams, integrating diverse perspectives to achieve project goals. But also be familiar with corporate processes
- EV sector experience is highly desirable but not essential
- Top 3 qualities for this role: Creativity, Communication, Adaptability
What the job involves
- Reporting to: Head of Product & Tech - OVO Drive
- Sitting in the OVO Drive business this role will lead the UX direction of one of OVO’s flagship products, OVO Charge
- This includes ideating and designing new features and products, optimising the UX and UI to maximise performance and combining Home and Public charging experience to create one of a kind experiences in the EV industry
- Create high-quality design outputs including concepts, user journeys, wireframes, UI flows, and detailed UI designs across IOS, Android and web platforms
- Lead a small team of Designers, providing day to day advice and support as well we guiding them through their career progression
- Accountability for timely and reliable delivery of your work and your team’s work as well as their performance. Provide direction and hands-on technical guidance to your team, making sure key processes are understood, documented, and followed
- Present clearly design concepts and communicate your work to team members and stakeholders to ensure alignment and understanding
- Plan independently, facilitate, and execute research activities, with the support of the design and research teams when necessary
- Develop interactive prototypes and conduct usability research to iterate and refine designs
- Business alignment: Work with product and engineering teams on developing team priorities based on the company’s business strategy
- Proactively contribute to and maintain design systems across all platforms (B2C and B2B) , ensuring consistency across all deliverables
- Estimate accurately and plan your workload, assisting with prioritisation to manage deadlines effectively
- …probably many more things we can’t even predict at this point
Salary benchmarks
Our take
On average, home energy represents 26% of our carbon footprint. Ovo Energy wants to bring this to zero by providing cheaper, greener and simpler energy to customers. They are analysing meter data to deliver easy, personalised actions, turning electric vehicles into power stations with clever chargers, and building energy-efficient heaters. For households, their offering is organised into four different energy plans. that include interest rewards on energy credit balance.
In 2020, OVO completed the acquisition of SSE Energy Services' retail arm for £500 million, meaning that the challenger brand now has around 4 million customers in the UK.
While helping Ovo members halve their carbon footprints, the company is also working towards becoming a net zero carbon business by 2035. The challenges ahead for the company include encouraging consumer behaviour change, shifting towards subscription models for home energy use.
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Inspiring mission
"The mission to provide Green energy to all customers, and to enable all our customers to start on a journey towards zero carbon living is written in..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$274.9m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$274.9m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $592.5m
Company benefits
- Annual Discretionary Bonus
- 9% Flex Pay - extra on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, use as your pension contribution, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits (tech schemes, EV leasing and more!).
- Flexible / Remote Working
- Personal Development Allowances and Free Access to OVOLearn - our very own training platform
- 34 Days Holiday (including bank holidays)
- Health Insurance
- £400 OVO Energy Discount
Company values
- Find a better way - We always look for a better way, whether that’s by delivering a better service, employing brilliant people or improving our products and processes
- Do what's right - Being open, honest and fair is one of the values which applies to everything we do. We take pride in talking to our customers and delivering exceptional work
- Build something great - Simple solutions aren’t quick or easy to find. They take time and tenacity. Our people work to find an answer that helps us ‘build something great’
Company HQ
Redcliffe, Bristol, UK
Leadership
David Buttress
(CEO)CEO of OVO, the UK’s 3rd largest energy supplier. Joined in May 2024.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OVO
Alessandro Storer (Head of Inclusion & Belonging )
- We run inclusive training and unconscious bias workshops for employees and interviewers
- We provide mental health support, through different networks, having mental health first aiders within the business and running initiatives like our "wellbeing Wednesdays" to promote this.
- We have dedicated Early Years programmes with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business.
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused I&D job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity.
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech at OVO by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within OVO and the wider community
- Within OVO we have multiple belonging networks and communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- Read more about our commitments to improving Diversity & Inclusion at OVO in our linked belonging report
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