Senior Product Designer

Kingfisher; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Kingfisher is seeking a Senior Product Designer to enhance the customer experience across its brands. You'll leverage your creativity to deliver design solutions for a variety of digital products, collaborating with diverse teams. The role offers an inclusive environment and opportunities for professional growth, along with a competitive benefits package.

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

Opportunities for professional growth

Flexible and agile working options

Qualifications

• Industry experience designing user interface experiences for real-world products.
• Extensive knowledge of design and prototyping tools.
• Confident leading the design process from concept to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Deliver design solutions for digital products within Kingfisher brands.
• Work with interdisciplinary teams to create customer experiences.
• Prototype concepts to validate ideas through testing.

Skills

User Interface Design

Creative Skills

Collaborative Work

Prototyping

Responsive Design

Accessibility Standards

Tools

Figma

Adobe CC

Job description

Overview

We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 76,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

You will be a part of a multi-disciplined team that deliver innovative and high crafted experiences to our customers and colleagues; working collaboratively with other Product Designers, Service Designers, Design Researchers, Product Owners and Developers. You will understand how the products you are working on form part of a bigger picture for the customer experience and wider business strategy.

Day to day you’ll be working with Design Leads and your product team to create, test and refine ideas. You’ll be producing deliverables in a fast paced environment, with a focus on Lean delivery, in order to learn and iterate.

What's the job?

As a Senior Product Designer, you will use your creative skills in the delivery of design solutions for a number of digital products and features, for a number of household name brands in the Kingfisher group. With an exciting remit, there is the opportunity to work on delivering industry leading features for complex journeys on a number of established digital products, from conception through to feature and component delivery.

• Can work collaboratively with inter-disciplinary teams to develop crafted customer experiences
• Apply conceptual thinking, combining user needs, business goals and technical realities
• Define the user experience through sketches, information architecture, wireframes and user flows
• Prototype concepts to help communicate approach and for validation through testing
• Communicate design rationale and approach, and how it relates to research findings, brand requirements and user needs
• Create light weight specifications and style guides to supplement designs / prototypes for delivery teams
• Work collaboratively with on-site and off-site teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented to standard
• Follow, contribute and maintain a shared component and pattern library to support feature reuse across Digital
• Participate in and contribute to design critiques and post project reviews
• Designing for mobile, tablet and desktop, including responsive websites using mobile first design techniques
• Understand and apply accessibility standards in everything you do

What you'll bring

• Industry experience designing user interface experiences for products that exist in the real world
• Consider how your work relates to the overall service proposition, ensuring the features and components you design are suitable, best in class and scalable
• Collaborate with other streams of work when relevant to ensure customer experiencesare consistent
• Confident leading the entire design process from concept through to delivery
• Translate concepts into designs that illustrate simplicity despite system complexity
• Extensive knowledge in using design and prototyping tools (e.g. Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC, Abstract, io)
• Proficient in craft fundamentals (i.e. layout, visual hierarchy, colour, typography and iconography)
• Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas, and know what format is appropriate to audience (sketches, storyboards, wireframes, mock-ups, animations, interactive prototypes and user flows)

Be Customer Focused – constantly improving our customers’ experience

We listen to our customers and colleagues

We innovate products and experiences to stay ahead

Be Human – leading with purpose, humanity and care

We do the right thing

We invest in our people and build great teams

Be Curious – thrive on learning, thinking beyond the obvious

We focus externally, globally and build the long term

We experiment and share our learnings

Be Agile – building trust and empowering people to work with agility

We act with pace, not perfection, role modelling 80/20

We take risks, fail fast and adapt quickly

Be Inclusive – inspiring diverse teams to achieve together

We celebrate difference as a strength

We collaborate, breaking down silos

Be Accountable – owning the plan, delivering results and growth

We focus on performance outcomes

We prioritise and simplify for others

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

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