Role: Senior Product Designer
Location: Nottingham
Shifts: Full time
Contract: 18-24 Month FTC
Hours: 37.5 Hours per week.
About the opportunity
We’re looking for a seasoned Product Designer to join our growing User Experience (UX) team at Boots. As a Product Designer, your role is essential to researching and designing best-in-class user experiences for future digital products and services at Boots.
You’ll span the breadth of the user-centered product design process, from initial research and concepts, right through to detailed designs and handover to the development team. You’ll work closely with UX Leads, Product Managers, Scrum Teams, Digital Experience, and Optimisation Teams to ensure successful communication of insights and designs.
Please provide a portfolio or sample of work with your application, that showcases your approach to design and problem solving.
About the role
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, engineers, and other designers to define and execute the UX and product design strategy.
* Support our user research team in achieving their objectives by providing design expertise and insights.
* Take ownership of the design process from start to finish; create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that effectively communicate and validate design concepts.
* Develop user flows, journey maps, and information architectures to guide the development of intuitive user experiences.
* Iterate on designs based on user feedback, stakeholder input, and usability findings.
* Work closely with engineers to ensure the implementation of designs aligns with the intended user experience.
* Champion the user and ensure that the design is customer-centric; advocate for user-centered design principles and best practices throughout the product development lifecycle.
* Demonstrate proficiency in design systems and brand guidelines, ensuring consistency and alignment with the company's visual identity.
* Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging design technologies to continuously improve our design process and output.
* Contribute to design critiques and peer reviews, offering constructive feedback and insights to fellow designers as well as approaching your peers to receive the same.
* Regular stakeholder management and presenting your work to the wider team, including executive level.
About you
* Bachelor’s degree in design, HCI, Interaction Design, or a related field. Master's degree is a plus.
* 5+ years of professional experience in UX and product design, preferably in a B2C environment.
* Strong portfolio showcasing a range of UX design projects, including wireframes, prototypes, final designs, and rationale.
* Proficient in tools such as Figma and Zeplin.
* Solid understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies.
* Experience with user research techniques, usability testing, and user behaviour analysis.
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate design decisions and rationale.
* Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and adapt to changing project requirements.
* Proactive, self-motivated, collaborative, and curious to learn.
* Ability to regularly present and manage stakeholders with confidence.
* Knowledge of front-end development technologies (HTML, CSS, etc.) is a plus.
* Experience working with ecommerce/retailers is also a plus.
Benefits
Benefits of being part of the Boots UX team:
* Be part of the high performing, talented and caring team, who are responsible for designing Boots future digital experience.
* Opportunity to develop practitioner skill set through coaching and mentoring from fellow UX and UI practitioners with a variety of experience and backgrounds.
* The mix of being in the retail sector, with an omni-channel presence and an established brand identity, offers diverse and stretching design projects.
We have a great range of benefits* that go beyond salary and offer flexibility to suit you:
* Competitive holiday allowance (with the option to buy more days).
* Boots Retirement Savings Plan pension scheme.
* Discretionary annual bonus scheme.
* Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption leave pay.
* £100 gift card for colleagues expecting/adopting a baby.
* Flexible benefits scheme (via salary sacrifice) including financial wellbeing support, gym membership, holiday buying, dental cover, life assurance, restaurant discount cards, activity passes and much more (exclusions may apply, eligible roles only).
* Access to our Employee Assistance Programme offering free, independent, and confidential counselling and support, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
* Generous staff discount (with enhanced discounts for Boots brands, Boot Opticians and Boots Hearingcare).
* Access to corporate third-party discounts, including retail, cinema, holidays and more (UK only).
* Access to the Boots Benevolent Fund, a registered charity that offers support to eligible current and former colleagues in the UK, as well as their immediate relatives, at times of financial hardship.
* Access to a range of learning and development resources and programmes.
* Excellent onsite facilities including staff shop, opticians, gym, coffee shops, cafeteria, outdoor seating spaces, dry cleaning service and excellent travel links including on-campus bus stops – Support Office only.
* All rewards and benefits are subject to change and eligibility.
What Next
Our mission is to help everyone to feel good. This starts internally – with every colleague and every team. In our stores and pharmacies, our warehouses, and our Support Office, we work together, putting our customers first and our colleagues at the heart of everything we do. We aim to attract, develop, and retain the best people, with a huge range of opportunities for you to continue to grow with us… just bring your passion and commitment and we’ll do the rest.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion is at the centre of everything we do in our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all.
At Boots we're proud to offer our Support Office team members a hybrid working approach because how we work is central to our ability to compete, innovate and win together. Our hybrid, flexible approach to work is based upon empowerment, accountability, care, and trust and includes a balanced mix of remote and office-based working.
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