Posting End Date: December 1, 2024 Join John Lewis or Waitrose today If you've ever stepped through the doors of a John Lewis or Waitrose shop, shopped online, or seen any of our adverts, you'll know there's something unique about us. That unique proposition is our Partners. As co-owners they have a say in our business and receive a share of the profits, so they put time and effort into making it work. Our Partners are the reason we're the success we are. They're our secret sauce; the opportunity for us to differentiate. Job Summary: Job Description: At a glance Hybrid based in Bracknell - The expectation is to attend the office one day a month for team days Expected salary - £47,700 - £71,800 Contract type - Permanent About the role As a Senior Product Designer you will lead, shape and execute the product design strategy for your product area, throughout the discovery and delivery design process. You will be a key influencer and help define the product vision and strategy for your area by partnering with the Product Manager, UX Researcher and engineering. Execute (and advocate for) high quality intuitive and accessible user experience design, you consider the broader context of the CX in your work and align with the business strategy. As a Senior Product Designer, you will work on larger, more complex problem space across key customer touch points, digital and physical. With a high level of customer understanding and knowledge of commercial insights and metrics, you will build empathy and advocacy for the customer in your product team/area. You’ll use knowledge to elevate the product teams/areas product thinking and strategy. You will also partner alongside the Product Manager to help engage and communicate with your stakeholders, the direction and progress of the user experience in your product area, and gain buy. What will you be doing? Lead design for a product area. This includes driving the future vision of this area, making sure it compliments a cohesive overall Waitrose experience, and delivering on incremental steps to help the team head in this direction Work in a cross-functional product team. You'll be responsible for all design artefacts produced; from initial discovery and user journey mapping through to the execution of final UI design details Deeply understand the customers you're designing for. Whether it's joining user research sessions, learning from previous insights, reading data reports or running your own lightweight research and analysis, you'll strive to understand the what, why and how of the problems you're solving for to ensure we don't just build the thing right, but we build the right thing Collaborate regularly using strong communication, documentation and facilitation skills. You'll work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Data scientists, User researchers and Writers to make sure your team isn't just shipping great designs, but they are deeply involved throughout the design process Execute (and advocate for) polished, intuitive and accessible user experiences Be pragmatic and able to balance the ideal experience with knowing where and when to make scoping trade-offs based on technical constraints, experimentation strategy or business risk Act as a guardian and advocate of the design system; using the design kits, components and assets intelligently Advocate and implement inclusive design solutions following W3C accessibility standards – as a digital retailer, we are committed to level AA conformance Customer journey /service mapping Capturing and analysing customer and business data and insights and utilise this through your work Planning and facilitating workshops and sharing designs throughout the design process Ideating, Sketching, Wireframing, Prototyping and Designing the end to end experience (UX and UI) Partnering with user researchers to solve customer problems. Responsive to visual design and QA testing Essential skills you’ll need Experience working as part of a Product Team in an agile environment Experience working through the Product Design lifecycle from discovery / research through to the final UI design with a portfolio to showcase this work Agile scrum experience: working in sprints with backlogs and feature sets Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and clearly articulate design decisions Understanding of the technical implications of design decisions Passion for problem solving and UX Design Excellent communication skills and people-focused design mentality to help set up frameworks and brainstorm initial design concepts Proficient in using digital design tools i.e. Figma Desirable skills Retail ecommerce experience within a large organisation Experience in front-end programming and the ability to code simple prototypes Experience in designing and maintaining cross-platform design systems Experience conducting research Desk research - heuristic analysis, competitor analysis Benefits of the Partnership and the role - Hybrid Working ️ - Full time working holiday entitlement 25 days holiday, plus public and bank holidays ⚖ - Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our market leading equal parenthood leave Policy - Defined Contribution pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay) and, after three years’ service, you’ll receive an additional Partnership contribution of 4% of pay, regardless of whether you pay in or not - You’ll get Partnership discount in store and online once you complete your Earning Membership. That’s 25% off in John Lewis & Partners (12% off electrical products) and 20% in Waitrose & Partners. You’ll also be able to nominate someone you live with to share your discount - Simple cycle to work support scheme - Access to 5 Partnership Hotels in some of Britain’s most stunning areas (for exclusive use by Partners and their families) - Learn more about our extensive range of exciting benefits that you could enjoy when you join us, visit - https://www.jlpjobs.com/about/benefits/ Next steps The application form consists of a CV upload followed by application questions. Please ensure your portfolio is included in the application Please ensure you refresh the page each time you complete a task to ensure you complete everything that you need to in time. (If internal, check your Workday notifications and see further guidance on the PDW under "Internal application process") Once you've submitted an application the next steps of the process, if successful, are likely to include a 3 stage interview process You'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss it with you Thanks for your patience in the meantime and for showing an interest in joining JLP We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend you apply early. Internal Partners can view a copy of the full Job Outline here. For internal use only LI-HEADOFFICE LI-HYBRID LI-ST1 Pay: £47,700.00 - £71,800.00 Annual Scheduled Weekly hours: 35 Worker Type: Permanent Partner Job Level: Partnership Level 7 Hours of Work: 35 At the John Lewis Partnership, we embrace our differences. We want you to be you. Because, well, we know you're at your best when you're free to be yourself. Being a truly inclusive employer to us means creating an environment which celebrates your contribution, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief. It's why we've set our own aim to become the UK’s most inclusive business - for our Partners (employees) and our customers. We firmly believe that our future success lies in diversity of thought from all Partners and it's integral in our mission to build a happier world. We welcome applications from everyone interested in working for us. And, once you're a Partner, your differences will make all the difference. Find out more about D&I in the Partnership here. We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where it is possible to do so. 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