Product Designer

About The Role Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth Office. Full time, 35 hours per week. This is a 12 month FTC opportunity with the possibility of an extension.  We are happy to discuss flexible working! Top skills needed for this role:

• Expert in app and web design with strong Figma skills and solid design-to-development handover experience
• Applies user research effectively to guide rapid iteration
• Collaborates confidently across product, engineering and content teams
• Detail-focused while able to pivot quickly and make smart trade-offs
• Strong understanding of technical handover and design system use
• Analytical, creative and curious about the bigger picture

What this role is all about: Enterprise is designed to empower our people to deliver strategic initiatives within customer-centric Product Delivery Streams. This exciting role will form part of a cross-functional team who is accountable for the end-to-end digital experience in the UK Product journey.As product designer you will be responsible for designing and shaping unique, user-centric product features and experiences. You will thrive working in a fast-paced environment with the ability to rapidly design/prototype, test and iterate. Working collaboratively with the broader product team and business stakeholders you will be able to make deliberate design decisions and translate a given user-experience journey into a smooth and intuitive interaction that helps to achieve the overall Vitality vision.Key Actions

• Responsible for ideation and iteration of designs and concepts for user experiences across digital journeys, via wireframes, high fidelity mockups, prototypes and user flows
• Able to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, such as product personnel, content design, architecture and engineering
• Must have an excellent grasp of current best practice across digital experience design
• Able to plan user research, and work with the resulting output to inform new iterations of work
• Confident in explaining rationale to, and influencing senior business stakeholders
• Strong machine skills within Figma, Microsoft and Adobe Creative Cloud
• Confident joining or handing over projects at any stage of completion
• Must have a strong working knowledge of design systems and relevant documentation

What do you need to thrive?

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Digital specialist with a proven track record working in native apps and web
• High level of understanding of design practices
• Strong understanding of research outputs and how to implement any recommendations
• Strong ability to refine and prioritise design tasks in fast-moving environment
• Proficient at creating user flows and experience designs
• Experience of using work management tools such as Jira & Confluence
• Able to contribute in meetings to elicit requirements and present work
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with business and technical stakeholders at all levels
• Able to produce high quality supporting artefacts to assist the team in development of experiences
• Outstanding team working and collaboration skills 

So, what’s in it for you?

• Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance – Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, w e will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
• Be there for you when you need us.
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.About The Company We're really excited to announce that we have recently been awarded "Top 10 Best Places To Work" in The Sunday Times Awards 2024!Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place.We’ve been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Diversity & Inclusion At Vitality, we’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.Vitality’s approach to sustainability Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early.