Senior Product Designer

Ordnance Survey; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mapping organization in Southampton is looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead the design of their OS MAPS product. You will manage a team through the development lifecycle, focus on user-centered design, and enhance the product experience. A competitive salary of £54,000 to £63,000 is offered alongside hybrid working options and comprehensive perks.

Benefits

Performance related bonus up to 10%

A competitive pension scheme

28 days annual leave

Enhanced family leave

Free subscription to OS Maps

Access to online learning platforms

Coaching and Mentoring schemes

Extra days’ leave up to 33 days

Employee Assistance Programme

Free onsite parking

Flexible working options

Eyecare Vouchers

Cycle to Work scheme

1 day per year for volunteering

Qualifications

• Strong UX design portfolio with clear design process.
• Knowledge of industry best practices and application positioning.
• Experience in managing teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of designers in the product development lifecycle.
• Work with product managers to prioritize design resources.
• Generate research plans to understand customer needs.

Skills

UX design portfolio

Knowledge of design standards

User-centred research

Team management

Proficiency in design software

Interactive prototyping

Visual communication

Strong analytical skills

Customer needs evaluation

Education

NQF level 3, A Level, BTEC or equivalent

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Sketch

Figma

Adobe XD

Job description

Senior Product Designer - OS MAPS (fulltime) - Salary – £54,000.00 to £63,000.00 (dependent on experience) - Hybrid working

Join us and you’ll have an opportunity to make an impact and be part of an organisation committed to driving sustainable outcomes. At OS, we use location data and intelligence to help customers build more resilient societies, preserve the environment, foster healthier, happier spaces that people want to live in, and support the delivery of improved public services and critical infrastructure.

Join our OS MAPS application team in our vision to be more than a map in an app.

OS MAPS - https://osmaps.com/ is award-winning app and website from Ordnance Survey, and it’s our mission to help more people to be inspired to get outside more often by enabling safer and better outdoor adventures through access to exceptional digital mapping, planning tools and amazing content.

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer who can help us forge the future of our product though inspired and engaging design, that helps empower our customers to achieve their goals.

Are you someone who not only understands what drives users and is able to translate that to meaningful and beautiful design but can also bring developers and peers on the journey with you? Then come and join OS Consumer as we grow and carry the success we’ve achieved in the UK to the rest of the planet through the next generation of OS MAPS services.

About the role

Reporting to the OS MAPS Strategic Product Manager, you will lead the OS MAPS designers in the full product development lifecycle of consumer products.

Working with not only consumer and our third-party supplier, but also ensuring the alignment of business and customer needs, adherence to quality standard, and content management you’ll need to;

• Lead & Manage a team of Designers who will support all aspects of the design & development lifecycle from research to implementation.

• Work with the Strategic Product Manager to manage and monitor prioritisation of design resource requirements.

• Generate hypotheses and plans for high-impact research and design change that helps us better understand our existing and potential customers and how to create a better product that solves their problems and meets their needs.

• Work closely with Product Managers, Developers and other stakeholders to own and improve the end-to-end product design & user experience of OS Maps.

• Continue to develop a robust design system to guide our development team

• Generate first-class concepts, visuals and creative designs that are used in the ongoing development of the OS MAPS product.

• Deliver design assets used to direct the development of products and campaigns.

• Develop analytics funnels that make sure our qualitative insights are also enhanced by robust quantitative analysis whenever possible and run some basic quantitative analysis.

• Identify actionable design improvement through both research and industry design standards and principles.

• Map user journeys that are passed onto design to ensure ease of use in product
  

What we’re looking for

First and foremost, we’re looking for a team member who is able to compliment our amazing Product and Design team and engage fully with our development team. We want to learn from you as much as we want you to learn from us.

But of course you need the skills so ideally you have a minimum of;

• A strong UX design portfolio with examples of a clear UX design process.

• Knowledge of web and mobile industry best practices, design standards and application positioning.

• Knowledge of user-centred research, copywriting interactive development and content strategy

• Experience of managing a team.

• Proficiency in Design Software: Mastery of tools like Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Sketch, Figma, and Adobe XD

• Prototyping: Ability to create interactive prototypes to test and validate design concepts.

• Visual Communication: Expertise in conveying ideas and information through visually compelling designs.

• Strong analytical skillset including experience identifying when/where data insight is required, able to define and analyse data points (e.g. via web analytics), to generate unique insights and recommendations.

• Experience in digging for customer needs/motivations via in-depth interviews, as you will be evaluating pain-points and opportunities via testing of existing products and experiences

It would be great, but not essential if you also had;

• HTML/CSS/JavaScript: Basic knowledge of front-end development can be beneficial for collaborating with developers.

• Secondary level education (NQF level 3, A Level, BTEC or equivalent)

• An understanding of the Product Development Lifecycle.

The Rewards

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• Salary – £54,000.00 - £63,000.00 (dependent on experience)

• Performance related bonus up to 10%

• A competitive pension scheme (OS contributes up to 12.07%)

• 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays on joining, (3 taken over Christmas) increasing by one day per year, to a maximum of 5 years

• Enhanced family leave, including up to 12 weeks paid partner (paternity) leave

• Free subscription to OS Maps

• Access to online learning platforms

• Coaching and Mentoring schemes

• Plus, a suite of excellent additional perks and benefits

At OS, we believe looking after your health and wellbeing means more than posters and events. We empower you to manage your work and life the way you need it by offering things like

• An extra days’ leave for each year you work, up to 33 days

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Hybrid working

• Free onsite parking at our modern HQ in Southampton

• We adopt flexible working and can consider different working hours dependent on the role and your personal circumstances

• Eyecare Vouchers

• OS Explorers Nursery discount

• Cycle to Work scheme

• We believe that as a company we should give back wherever we can, so we give you 1 day a year to volunteer for charities that are important to you, as well as offering a match funding scheme

Location: We embrace a hybrid working model at OS and understand there is no one size fits all in relation to how we work. We have a fantastic HQ in Southampton, Hampshire where you will be based and required to spend 1-2 days a month at OSHQ.

Security

OS conducts pre-employment checks for anyone made an offer of employment, including identity, right to work, employment history and criminal record checks (via Disclosure & Barring Services (DBS).

Some of our roles may require additional security vetting. We will advise candidates during the recruitment process if additional vetting may be required for that specific role.

Closing date: Sunday 17th August at 23:59

Unfortunately, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship for this role, therefore you must have the right to work in the UK, without the need for employer sponsorship.

We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that people may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any during the application process.

Research indicates that women, individuals with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community members, neurodiverse individuals, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds often hesitate to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Ordnance Survey, we are dedicated to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and genuine workplace where everyone can thrive. If you’re enthusiastic about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly match every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the ideal candidate for this or other roles within Ordnance Survey.