Product Designer
Raspberry Pi Foundation, United Kingdom
Job Description
Product Designer
Location: Cambridge or remote (UK only) with occasional travel to Cambridge
Salary: 34,000 40,000 p.a. full-time equivalent, dependent on experience
Basis: Permanent; full-time, part-time, or flexible
Eligibility: You must be eligible to work in the UK
The role
We’re looking for a Product Designer to join the Digital Products team here at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. You will be responsible for delivering digital experiences which have a large audience and measurable positive impact on young people and educators. For example, our Projects site content is viewed millions of times a year; our Coolest Projects showcase keeps growing, and this year 5,800 young people from 37 countries shared their tech creations; and Code Club World offers a way for young people to learn to code at home and has a rapidly growing user base.
In this role, you will report to the Head of Product Design and work as part of an agile team of Product Designers, User Experience Researchers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers. Together, you'll design simple, accessible, and empowering experiences for our users. You will use tools such as Figma and Slack to communicate and collaborate effectively.
We strive to make the Foundation a place where talented people who care about our mission can do the best work of their careers. We have a flexible and collaborative approach to all aspects of our work. If you’re the right person for the job, we’ll make it work for you, and you can be confident that you’ll be working with an exceptional team. You can work in our Cambridge office or remotely in the UK with occasional travel to Cambridge.
Responsibilities
- Deliver creative UI design with best practice UX thinking, across our range of digital products that meets the needs of our different user groups
- Empathise with our users and develop an understanding of their needs and motivations by working closely with User Experience Researchers to use insight to inform your thinking
- Be able to iterate your design work based on outcomes from user research.
- Work collaboratively as part of a cross-functional delivery team alongside Software Engineers and Product Managers
- Clearly communicate ideas to stakeholders through presenting user flows, mockups, designs and prototypes
- Help improve our ways of working including contributing to the development of our Design System.
- Advocate for accessibility and be guided by the ICO’s Age Appropriate Design code to ensure our products are suitable and safe for young-people and volunteers.
- Work across a variety of the Foundation’s digital products with a huge reach and the ability to have a positive impact on the lives of young people.
Experience and personal attributes
We recognise that everyone has the potential for growth, and we welcome applications from candidates who can demonstrate that they have some, but not all, of the experience and personal attributes listed here:
- Demonstrable experience of working as a professional digital Product Designer
- Experience creating designs that meet both business aims and user needs
- Experience working with software engineers to design products that work within technical limitations
- Understanding of UX research methodologies and how best to test designs with users
- A proactive and self-starting nature, you should be a problem-solver and like to fix things along with being open to providing and receiving constructive feedback
- Excellent communication skills, the ability to clearly articulate your thinking and present to teams across the organisation
- Experience of working with a range of stakeholders
- An understanding of using user research to inform strategy and thinking for product design
- An interest in education, especially related to computer science, physical computing, and digital making for young people
About us
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK-based educational charity with the mission to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies.
Established in 2008 and first known for our product the wildly successful Raspberry Pi computer the Foundation has developed education programmes, learning experiences, and products that are helping millions of young people learn vital new knowledge and skills
Through Code Club and CoderDojo, we support the world’s largest network of free informal computing clubs for young people. Tens of thousands of educators have taken our online courses, and millions of people use our free online learning resources. To deepen our understanding of how young people learn about computing and how to cr