Senior Product Designer

POWWR; Manchester; Hybride; GBP 55 000 - 60 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary

Flexible working from home

Death in Service cover

Blended learning culture

Annual bonus scheme

Conferences & events

Résumé du poste

POWWR is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape our SaaS platform. You’ll apply design thinking and craft intuitive interfaces that balance user needs with business goals in a fast-paced environment.

You’ll collaborate with product managers, engineers and stakeholders, lead workshops, and contribute across the lifecycle from discovery to delivery, with opportunities to influence design practices as we scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product design with SaaS experience.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills.
• Proficient prototyping and iterative delivery.
• User-centred and accessibility aware.
• Collaborative in Agile/Lean teams.

Responsabilités

• Design and iterate on user-centred SaaS solutions using sketches, flows, wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Validate designs with user feedback, usability metrics, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Use Figma prototyping to demonstrate interactions and communicate the platform’s narrative.
• Work with engineers to implement designs addressing constraints.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, clients, and engineers to ensure designs meet needs, goals, feasibility.
• Facilitate workshops to align goals and understanding.
• Conduct design and user research to inform designs.
• Create UI patterns within a design system for large datasets and responsive layouts.
• Apply WCAG accessibility standards and communicate data through visuals.

Connaissances

Product design

Interaction design

Visual design

Prototyping

Usability

Agile collaboration

Outils

Figma

Description du poste

At POWWR, we're transforming the way the energy industry operates. Supporting over 45 energy suppliers and more than 1,400 brokers, our technology helps create a more transparent, connected, and efficient energy marketplace.

We are currently searching for a creative and intuitive Senior Product Designer to build upon a solid foundation of design thinking and concepts. You’ll join at an exciting stage of our product evolution, with the opportunity to influence how our design practice grows.

What You Will Be Doing

As our Senior Product Designer, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our SaaS platform. You'll contribute across the entire product lifecycle, from identifying user pain points and conceptualising solutions to crafting intuitive interfaces that delight users. In this role, you’ll use your full range of design skills to push boundaries, balancing user needs with business objectives in a fast-paced SaaS environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and iterate on user-centred solutions for our SaaS platform through sketches, user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes.
  
• Validate designs using user feedback, usability metrics, competitive analysis, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Utilise Figma’s prototyping capabilities to effectively demonstrate interactions and functionality, helping to communicate the platform’s narrative with clarity.
• Partner closely with engineers to bring designs to life, addressing constraints and iterating rapidly.
• Engage with stakeholders, clients, and engineers to ensure designs meet user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility.
• Facilitate workshops and discussions to align on goals and promote a shared understanding of challenges and solutions.
• Conduct design and user research, including validation testing, to inform your designs.
• Design intuitive UI patterns within a cohesive design system to support large datasets, rich visuals and high-frequency updates, while ensuring responsiveness across devices.
• Apply WCAG accessibility standards and information design principles to communicate complex data through high-level visualisations such as charts and summaries .

Qualifications and Skills

You’ll bring a portfolio that demonstrates your design process, problem-solving and impact across digital products. Experience designing SaaS products is welcome, but not essential. We’re looking for someone who is:

• Experienced: 5+ years across product design, with strong skills in interaction design, visual design, prototyping and iterative delivery.
• Strategic: Able to balance user needs, business value and technical constraints to simplify complex journeys.
• User-centred: Grounded in usability principles, research and accessible design.
• AI-curious: Comfortable prototyping AI-powered features and using AI tools to improve design workflows.
• Collaborative: Experienced working with product managers, engineers and stakeholders in Agile or Lean teams, communicating ideas clearly and constructively.
• Self-directed: Confident owning design for a product area, making decisions independently while bringing others into the process
  

Innovative and User-Focused:

• A problem-solver and systems thinker: Able to connect the big picture with the details of complex user journeys.
• Insight-led: Able to use behavioural analytics, heatmaps and session recordings (e.g. Microsoft Clarity) to identify opportunities and measure improvements.

Adaptable and Resilient:

• Adaptable: Comfortable working through ambiguity, prioritising effectively and learning as the product and business evolve.

Other Requirements:

• Willing to travel occasionally to Manchester and/or other locations.

What's In It For You?

Competitive salary £55-60K

Flexible working from home

Death in Service cover

Blended learning culture with personal development plans

Annual company bonus scheme for high contribution

Annual company conferences & team events

POWWR promotes an environment where everyone can bring their true authentic self to work and deliver their best work. We believe in equal opportunities and encourage applicants to apply to our open roles regardless of gender, marital status, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, neurodiversity, sexual orientation and/or age.