Senior Product Designer, OVO
£70-78k
You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. Plus bonus plan
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
Job no longer available
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£70-78k
You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. Plus bonus plan
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company 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
- Solid professional experience in product design, with a portfolio showcasing your ability to create user-friendly and visually appealing experiences, ideally within a product-focused company
- A strong grasp of UI/UX principles
- Experience working with design systems and component libraries, and the ability to design effectively across different platforms
- Proficiency in interaction design, including creating intuitive user flows and engaging micro-interactions, and the ability to develop prototypes at various fidelities
- A data-informed approach to design, using insights from user research and metrics to guide your decisions and improve user experiences
- Excellent communication skills, enabling you to present design concepts clearly, collaborate effectively with engineering and product teams, and facilitate design discussions
- A user-centred mindset, a keen eye for detail, and a proactive approach to problem-solving and managing your design projects
- The ability to adapt to feedback, a desire to continuously improve, and a resilient attitude when tackling complex design challenges
- Top 3 qualities for this role: Customer-first, Problem solving, Creative flair
What the job involves
- Reporting to: Aidan Walker
- As a Senior Product Designer at OVO, you'll be at the forefront of creating outstanding and easy-to-use experiences across all our products
- You will lead key design initiatives, strategically develop our interaction patterns, and contribute to OVO's wider design vision
- Your work will directly shape how users experience our products, influencing their success and helping to establish best design practices within OVO
- Deliver Superior Design Solutions: Achieve pixel-perfect design across all screens and platforms by implementing innovative UI/UX practices and refining design systems
- Enhance User Experience: Lead usability studies and A/B testing, ensuring our products are intuitive and meet user needs
- Ensure Cross-Platform Consistency: Develop and maintain consistent navigation systems and reusable components for scalability and coherence across platforms
- Mentorship and Collaboration: Provide mentorship to junior designers while effectively collaborating with senior stakeholders and engineers
- Deliver User-Centred Designs: Create intuitive and effective design solutions for product initiatives, balancing user needs, business goals, and OVO's product vision, informed by data and commercial awareness
- Develop and Maintain Design Systems: Contribute to OVO's design system by creating scalable components, interaction patterns, and clear microcopy, ensuring consistency and efficiency across our products
- Champion Usability and Accessibility: Plan and conduct usability testing (including A/B tests), analyse findings to improve designs, and ensure our products feature clear navigation and information architecture that is accessible to all users
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with product managers, engineers, and other designers throughout the design and development process, providing clear documentation and ensuring high-quality implementation of your designs
- Support Team Growth: Offer guidance and share your design expertise with colleagues, contributing to a supportive and collaborative team environment
- Engage with OVO's Design Community: Actively participate in our Community of Practice by sharing your experiences, contributing to discussions, and helping to collectively advance our design craft at OVO
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. It's analysing meter data to deliver easy, personalised actions, turning electric vehicles into power stations with clever chargers, and building energy-efficient heaters. For households, it's 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
$272.2m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$272.2m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $586.6m
Company benefits
- On-target bonus up to 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal
- Flex Pay: 9% on top of your salary - 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash
- 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays)
- For your health: With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more
- For your wellbeing: With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more
- For your lifestyle: With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations
- For your home: Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers
- For your commute: Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
- For your belonging: To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you
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 at least 30% Women in Tech at OVO by 2026
- 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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