Product Designer

Job Description

Product Designer
Location: Cambridge, UK or remote with regular travel to Cambridge 
Salary: £36,000 – £42,000 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

Our digital products and services are used by millions of people all over the world. As part of our continuing plans to expand our reach and impact, we are looking for a Product Designer to join our team.

We are 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 in 2021, 1385 young people from 47 countries shared their tech creations.

In this role, you will report to the Head of Product Design and work collaboratively as part of a team of other Product Designers, User Experience Researchers, Content Designers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to create digital products that have a real impact for our users who are engaged with digital making and computing education globally. 

You will bring your experience of creating build-ready UI designs which utilise UX best practice to implement new features and improvements across a range of products and platforms. 

You will join an agile digital products team that works in Cambridge and remotely around the UK. We use collaboration tools such as monday.com, Figma, and Slack to communicate 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. 

Responsibilities

• Deliver creative visual and UI design with best practice UX thinking, across our range of digital products that meets the needs of our different user groups
• Work as part of a cross-functional team who are passionate about ensuring our products provide meaningful and engaging experiences which delight our users
• Put users at the centre of the design process and validate your work by working with user experience researchers to test with users often and be able to iterate based on feedback and insight
• Clearly communicate ideas to stakeholders through presenting designs, prototypes and design thinking
• 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 or UI Designer
• Experience creating detailed finessed UI 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 interest in education, especially related to computer science, physical computing, and digital making for young people

About us
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, 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 create with digital technologies, we conduct academic research, and we use that knowledge to increase the impact of our work and advance the field of computing education.

Across all of our work, we work hard to engage young people who come from backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in the field of computing or who experience educational disadvantage. We work all over the world, with teams based in the UK, Ireland, North America, and India, and partnerships with mission-aligned organisations in over 40 countries. You can learn more about us on our careers page.

We are at the forefront of the global movement to help young people learn about computing and digital making. You can read more about our mission, values, and goals in our Annual Review 2023 and our Strategy 2022–2025.

Benefits

In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a range of benefits for all of our colleagues, including:

• 25 days’ annual leave initially, growing to 30 days after five years service
• Company-wide close down for 3 days at the end of the year
• Generous company pension scheme with 8% employer and 4% employee contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance and long-term illness insurance policy
• Investment in professional development and learning
• Flexible work hours as needed, to fit around childcare or other commitments
• Generous family leave policy
• Cycle-to-work scheme and season ticket loan

Timetable for application
Closing date: 28 March 2025, 9.00am GMT
Phone screen: Week commencing 31 March 2025
First-round interview: Week commencing 7 April 2025
Second-round interview: Week commencing 14 April 2025

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. If successful in the selection process, you will be required to undergo a background check to confirm that you are a suitable person to work with children. Further background checks will be made at regular intervals thereafter.

Interviews

We’ll first organise a 20-minute phone screen in the week of 31 March 2025, followed, if you are successful, by two interviews shortly afterwards. Interviews will be conducted remotely, and we can be flexible with scheduling to accommodate your needs. There won't be any questions designed to trip you up. 

We’ll also ask you to complete a short task (with a week’s notice), which you should spend no more than three hours of your time on, and which you'll walk us through during the first interview. This will include the opportunity to share some of your recent work. 

We aim for the whole process to be as fair as possible, and we always value your feedback.