Product Designer

British Gas; Windsor; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company is seeking an experienced Product Designer to join their team. You'll focus on user-centered design and help create intuitive digital solutions for residential customers. This role requires experience in UX research, design, and collaboration within an agile environment. A hybrid working model is provided, allowing for a mix of home and office work.

Benefits

Flexibility in total rewards

Support for physical and emotional wellbeing

Qualifications

• Experience across all parts of the design process.
• Hands-on experience in design disciplines, tools, and processes.
• Experience contributing to design systems in Figma.

Responsibilities

• Uphold excellent customer experiences for all products.
• Drive collaboration across teams.
• Research customer needs through explorative research and usability testing.
• Work closely with Product Owners and Tech teams.
• Contribute to design systems and improve ways of working.

Skills

UX Research

UX Design

UI Design

Design thinking

Agile environment collaboration

Figma

App design (iOS and Android)

Job description

Overview

Join us, be part of more. We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We're energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that's energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities. Here, you can find more purpose, more passion, and more potential. That’s why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently - we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it, and mend it.

About your team

At British Gas, our mission is to sell it and mend it. We’ve been powering the UK’s homes and businesses for over 200 years – but supplying energy is just part of what we do. We’re making the UK greener and more energy efficient, getting closer to Net Zero. By using clever tech like thermostats, heat pumps, solar panels and EV chargers, we’re making it cheaper and easier for our customers to reduce their carbon-footprint.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Product Designer with a strong background in user-centred design and a solid understanding of UX methodologies and best practices.

As part of our team, you’ll play a key role in shaping our services with a focus on our residential customers. You’ll help design and refine digital solutions that are intuitive, thoughtful, and aligned with customer needs.

Location

We have a hybrid-work environment, where you will be predominantly home-based but required to travel to office site occasionally

On a day-to-day basis you will be

• Responsible for upholding excellent customer experience for all the products and journeys within your team
• Driving collaboration across teams
• Researching and understanding customer needs through explorative research, usability testing and data analysis
• Working closely with Product Owners and Tech teams to ship high quality work
• Contributing to our design systems and continuous improvement of ways of working within the team
• Champion and maintain standards of design in the wider business function

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

We need you to have experience working across all parts of the design process – although it’s fine if you are stronger in some areas than others. This includes:

• UX Research
• UX Design
• UI Design
• Design thinking
• Working in an agile environment, supporting and collaborating with multi disciplinary teams
• Hands on experience in UX design and research disciplines, tools, and processes
• Experienced in working and contributing to design systems and design standards in Figma
• Experience of working on apps (iOS and Android) is preferred

Competencies

• Strong communication skills
• Ability to create compelling and concise communications
• Ability to spot problems and opportunities and make necessary changes
• A genuine passion for improving collaboration and efficiency
• Ability to organise and prioritise work from multiple stakeholders

Please share your CV and portfolio via website link or PDF.

Why should you apply?

We’re not a perfect place – but we’re a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That’s why we’ve designed our total rewards to give you the flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too. Visit the link below to discover why we’re a great place to work and what being part of more means for you.

https://www.morethanacareer.energy/britishgas

If you\'re full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.

Help us, help you. We would love for you to share any information about yourself throughout our recruitment process so that we can better understand you and help shape your journey.