Senior Product Designer - 6 months FTC
Job Title
Senior Product designer
Reports to
Head of Product Design
Location
UK based role - 1 day a week in Manchester office
Salary
50,000 – 60,000 GBP per annum
Fixed term 6 month contract with potential to go permanent
Please submit your CV and link/pdf of some examples of your work. Examples could be screenshots of figma or a portfolio
What we do
Vypr is a Private Equity/Venture Capital backed SaaS business providing a market-leading product intelligence platform. We are on an exciting journey to be known around the globe for providing reliable consumer data. Our predictive data validation platform enables manufacturers and retailers to understand what their customers want to see on shelves. This helps reduce the time and costs spent developing new products, which makes for better products, faster.
Product Design at Vypr
Our in-house product team works in small, multidisciplinary teams designing and building features using the Shape Up methodology. This gives us the autonomy to work in whatever way best achieves our goals, with design playing a central role in shaping direction, not just executing it.
About the role
This role sits within Product in one of our three established feature teams and takes us to a total of 5 designers at Vypr. We’re making it our own but we’ve been following Basecamp’s shapeup methodology and working to a 6 week delivery cadence. As Senior Product Designer you'll lead on design in the ‘Customer Delight’ team. The work is interesting and varied: you'll be tackling new features, defining design standards and patterns and contributing to our component library work closely with product managers and engineers to turn shape and delivery features and with subject matter experts and customer research to keep decisions grounded in real user needs.
Who you are
A clear communicator.
In your written work and in your conversations. You know that asking questions to clarify your understanding is important and you can speak confidently about your approach and decisions, pitching at the correct level of detail dependant on context and who you are working with.
Collaborative.
You move between individual focussed work and group collaboration easily. You have a good instinct for when to partner with other team members and canvassing for feedback and critique is a key part of how you work. Conversing with different disciplines is comfortable and you will be just as happy working with a member of the sales team as you would another designer. You know that building strong relationships with other colleagues is crucial to you understanding problems and being able to distil them down into design solutions that are useful and easily understood.
Flexible.
You flex your approach depending on where you are in the product development process. If you’re navigating ambiguity you know what to do to create clarity for yourself and your team members. If you’re working through something that’s already well defined you appreciate the clear goal and focus in on how to deliver to it. You know how to break down complex problems using maps, flows, prototypes, wireframes, written documents or quick sketches to increase your understanding and make progress.
Comfortable working in cycles. You're happy operating within a shaping and feature-delivery rhythm - contributing to shaping conversations, committing to a scope for a cycle, and adapting your process to fit fixed-time, variable-scope delivery.
A problem solver.
You enjoy picking apart a problem and finding evidence to help you solve it. Whether its data or user research you look for information to help you make good decisions. You know there are always 100+ different waysto solve a user need and you demonstrate good judgement zeroing in on solutions that do this well and align back to the product goals.
Your experience
- You have worked in an agile product team as a UX designer, UI designer, interaction designer, designer or product designer.
- You are used to delivering value to users regularly through iterative releases. Even better if you’ve worked with Shape Up before
- You have designed for websites and apps and have a good grasp of the nuances between different platforms
- You’re comfortable talking to users and are knowledgeable about user research best practice
- You have good command of UX design, visual design and service design and can move in and out of detail comfortably
- You're comfortable working alongside a content designer to ensure product and content decisions stay aligned.
Working at Vypr
Vypr is a scaleup with heart. We work at pace, but not at the expense of people. If you want to work somewhere dynamic, but have been put off by the tech-bro start up cultures you’ve read about or experienced in the past, then Vypr is for you.
What we offer
- Hybrid working
- Company paid medical cashplan
- Enhanced annual leave
- Work from anywhere up to 4 weeks a year
- Access to a global benefits and reward platform
- Access to well-being support, including an Employee Assistance Programmes
- Life Assurance
- Day off on your birthday
- Volunteering day
- Enhanced parental leave
- “M2 13” MacBook Air” or “M1 Pro MacBook Pro” (but you get to choose your own colour )
What next?
Our Talent Selection process focusses on creating a mutual, fair and transparent dialogue that helps you and us to establish whether the role could be a rewarding career fit. We will create space to discuss your ambitions and our growth plans as well as context of the role, give you the opportunity to engage with your potential Line Manager and Team Members, showcase your skills in a live task and to visit our Manchester HQ.