Senior Product Designer (12 Month Maternity Cover, London or UK Remote)
BridgeU, United Kingdom

BridgeU was founded with the belief that talent is equally distributed across the globe, but opportunity is not. We take pride in helping students discover and explore the best pathways available to them - wherever those opportunities may be. We help universities to discover and engage the schools and students that will contribute to their vibrant, diverse and successful programs and courses. We believe BridgeU has never been more important to help students, schools and universities discover new opportunities globally and connect at a distance.

Today, BridgeU is the market-leading provider of university and career guidance software to international and globally-minded secondary schools. BridgeU is proud to work with secondary schools in over 300 cities across 119 countries. And, we partner with a growing number of leading universities, currently in 7 countries, to connect recruitment and admissions teams to the largest community of international schools available on one platform. Uniquely, BridgeU combines the culture and pace of a start-up with the support and stability of being part of Kaplan, part of one of the world’s largest and most diverse education providers.

Our teammates are talented individuals who come from a variety of backgrounds. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture based on trust and kindness, which creates a work environment that helps enrich the product and support we provide to our customers.

We currently have offices in London, Madrid and Hong Kong as well as fully remote employees. Since March 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, BridgeU has become fully remote, and we are aiming to continue a remote-first culture even as our offices re-open.

We usually aim for team members to travel between our offices to have face-to-face time with one another to bond, work together and have fun, and we’re aiming to get back to this in a post-Covid world. In the meantime, we’ve been socialising, playing games, hosting quizzes and connecting online so that we stay close to one another.

This is initially a 12-month fixed term contract expected to run from October 2022 to October 2023

Embedded into our product engineering teams, our Senior Product Designers are responsible for owning, creating and defining the user experience we offer across the BridgeU product landscape, driving impactful projects which bring meaningful value to our users.

The Senior Product Designer at BridgeU is primarily a generalist role, utilising a wealth of skills and experience in all disciplines from research, insight amp; data gathering and interpretation, to design and validation. This means as a Senior Product Designer at BridgeU you will:

• Be the focal point/lead, on UX/UI projects, working closely with product managers, other designers, and developers in order to bring ideas to life.
• Actively participate in and lead cross-functional meetings, workshops, and training to foster a user-centered design process.
• Actively support more junior members of the team with practical advice and guidance.
• Be a product focussed problem solver, working closely with our product team to ensure we not only solve the right problem, but solve the problem the right way.
• Develop a deep understanding of our users' needs by conducting user research on both micro and macro scales, identifying and articulating new opportunities for the product team to focus on.
• Prototype and validate designs, iterating on them and testing with real users.
• Understand the value of your work by setting metrics, tracking measures of success and learning from outcomes.
• Utilise existing and contribute new, scalable, elegant design patterns to our design system, and use them to realise your solutions.
• Take a lead on defining and championing reusable collateral, methods and best practices attaining to the UX design process and overall design function maturity.
• Be an integral part of a Product design team that is integrated with our agile product development lifecycle, and work closely with our Customer Support and Marketing teams on a regular basis, seeking opportunities to increase the impact and reach of user-centred design across the BridgeU platform and its users.

We have created an environment where collaboration and learning are highly encouraged, trusting each others’ decisions and empowering autonomy. Our development process involves paired programming sessions and code reviews that give us the opportunity to learn something new and bring useful discussions every day. We are committed to supporting the movement towards a fully remote, distributed team and the way we communicate with each other reflects this long-term goal.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of senio

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