Senior Product Designer, Wellcome
£65.5k
2-3 days a week in office
Global charitable foundation for science research
Job no longer available
Global charitable foundation for science research
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£65.5k
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Wellcome's mission is to support science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone.
Role
Who you are
- A strong portfolio showcasing a range of work across multiple projects and products and extensive knowledge and understanding of user-centred design methods
- Experience working on digital products or services that serve a wide range of users
- Knowledge of inclusive design practices and how to ensure products meet accessibility targets
- Extensive experience of using prototypes to explore ideas, communicate design options, decisions, and test designs with real users
- The ability to identify and produce design deliverables, from sketching to prototypes, and integrate design work into agile ways of working
- Knowledge of evaluating and iterating user experience and the roles content and context can play in the end-to-end journey
What the job involves
- You will be part of the Experience Design Team within the Digital and Technology department reporting to the Associate Director of Experience Design and joining our supportive community of UX practitioners
- As part of the Experience Design team in Digital & Technology, the Senior Product Designers work with multidisciplinary agile teams and staff across Wellcome to develop digital products and services that make a difference to users.
- As senior practitioners, they are responsible for the quality of design outputs and evolving our design practices and techniques to improve user experience.
- They advocate for a user-centred approach and coach other practitioners in user-centred design
- You’ll love thinking about the end-to-end user journey and all stages of the product lifecycle. You’re keen to experiment and continue learning how to design, measure and improve user experience.
- You’ll like working with teams and stakeholders to understand the bigger picture and how to evolve services that address real world challenges and opportunities. You’ll enjoy sharing knowledge and supporting other practitioners to develop their skills and deliver quality work
- Lead design thinking on ways to understand and evaluate end-to-end user journeys in order to identify opportunities to test, iterate and improve user experience
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, collaborating closely with product managers, designers, researchers and developers to create, evaluate and iterate products and services
- Advocate for user-centred design across products and services, seeking opportunities to share your experiences and secure senior stakeholder buy-in
- Rapidly craft, test and iterate concepts and prototypes, understanding when a lo-fi sketch will do the job, and knowing when to add more detail
- Manage and/or mentor designers and other user-centred practitioners to develop their skills and assure and improve design practices
- Contribute to the creation and development of a diverse and inclusive culture across the organisation, collaborating across departments
Application process
- Closing date: Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
- Interview dates: 4, 8 and 11th July
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The Wellcome Trust was originally founded in 1936 to fund medical research and has since grown into the UK’s largest private scientific research fund, and one of the wealthiest charities in the world. Disbursing over £1 billion in funds a year, it has provided funding to numerous medical research projects in its focus areas of mental health, climate & health and infectious diseases. These include the Cancer Genome Project and the Ebola Emergency Initiative.
Wellcome's 2022 decision to divest itself of its shares in fossil fuels has also relieved it of a persistent source of controversy, as this was potentially hindering the credibility of its climate change research. Wellcome has since partnered with the World Economic Forum to collect data on how climate change is affecting health worldwide.
The company is also moving to adjust to a more global role. The majority of its funding has historically been allocated to UK firms, but as climate change and infectious diseases know no borders, neither does research into solutions to these problems. ln 2019 it established an office in Berlin to strengthen its scientific links in the EU and to allow it to more easily fund important research outside of the UK.
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Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Holiday – 25 days’ holiday a year plus bank holidays (and we usually close between Christmas and New Year)
- Pension (defined contribution plan) – you contribute at least 3% and we pay in 15% of your salary
- Income protection – to maintain your income if you have a prolonged illness or disability
- Life assurance – four to six times your basic salary if you’re a member of our pension plan
- Interest-free travel season ticket loan
- Private medical insurance – we pay the cover, you pay the tax (and you can pay to add dependants)
- Gym and fitness classes – free membership to on-site gym and subsidised fitness classes and treatments
- Employee assistance programme – free, independent 24/7 help and advice for work-related issues as well as problems affecting your home life
- Mental health support – our network of mental health first aiders can be a first point of contact, or help while you're receiving professional help
- Health assessments (free and voluntary) – after you’ve been here for one year, then every two years after that
- Occupational health – annual eye tests and flu jabs, as well as job-related vaccinations
- Flexible working – we make every effort to support flexible working, including flexible working hours and remote working (we respect people's different working preferences and the need for a healthy work-life balance)
- Flexi-leave scheme – you can buy or sell up to five days of your holiday entitlement a year
- Staff social club – a range of sports teams and fun events throughout the year
- Volunteering – we give you up to four days' paid leave a year to contribute to our local community
- Give As You Earn – allows you to make tax-free donations to the charities you care about
- Cycle-to-work scheme – we offer at least 25% discount on bikes and cycling equipment and we have secure cycle storage, lockers and showers
- Subsidised restaurant and cafe
- Wellcome Collection discounts – 20% off food, drink and gifts from our cafe, restaurant and shop
- Discounts through Perkbox – shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, phone insurance and gift cards
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Jeremy Farrar
(Director)Has been Director of the Wellcome Trust since 2013. Before that was Director of Oxford Clinical Research Unit, working on research and clinical trials for diseases in Vietnam.
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