Senior Product Designer (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds and London)

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

A highly proven Senior Product Designer at Genomics England, you will bring cutting-edge new genomics products to life. You will confidently take the lead on our Newborns products from end-to-end and help to establish first class design standards.

This is a core role in our organisation and will consist of designing innovative, intuitive products and collaborating with product managers and engineers to define and realise the product vision and roadmap. As an experienced Senior Product Designer, you will need a deep understanding of user needs and business objectives to ideate, build and iterate products that are highly relevant, as well as improving and documenting our styles and component library.

The day-to-day: 

Get to know the Newborns service: What it is, how it works, and how it could transform healthcare. You’ll also get to know our users and their needs. We have lots of qualitative research to get you started. 

Design the User Experience: You’ll work as part of a cross-functional squad including engineering, research, product management and clinical staff to iterate designs, ensuring usability, feasibility and viability to deliver quality outcomes. 

Input into the product vision You will work closely with the Product Manager to translate qualitative and quantitative insights into a product roadmap to deliver user value. 

Champion accessibility: You’ll design accessible, experiences with a content designer to ensure everyone can access and use the product. 

Apply frameworks: You'll have knowledge and experience of applying NHS design systems and frameworks and utilise these in your design. 

Design to legal and regulatory requirements: Our user experience is evaluated by an external Research Ethics Committee (REC). You’ll work with a range of healthcare professionals to make sure our designs are compliant. 

Contribute to the wider design community: collaborate with other designers to build a shared component library and collectively improve design quality. 

Facilitate decision making and co-creation: bring together diverse perspectives, including the product squad, internal and external stakeholders and users, through appropriate methods to solve problems together.

Skills and experience for success: 

• Substantial experience as a Senior Product Designer with examples of live delivery. 

• Experience working as part of a cross functional product squad. 

• Demonstrable knowledge of product design processes and methodologies. 

• Able to work end-to-end, from discovery to launch, and beyond. 

• Understanding of how to evaluate and interpret user research findings to wireframe and prototype solutions. 

• Knowledge of the WCAG 2.2 accessibility guidelines and general practice. 

• Proactive collaborator who embraces working with a diverse range of people such as designers, engineers, product managers, and researchers. 

• Strong organisational skills, including the ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines. 

• Desire to continually improve work through giving and receiving feedback. 

• Advanced proficiency with design and prototyping tools.

• Experience using NHS design systems and applying regulatory best practice desirable. 

Closing Date: Tuesday 9th December at 23:00 (UK time) 

Salary From:  £63,300

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including: 

• Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
• Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
• Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), and a Give As You Earn scheme.
• Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
• Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
• Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.

Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace 

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background. 

Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.  

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity. 

We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us. 

Culture

We have four key behaviours that represent what we would like Genomics England to feel like and the culture we want to encourage, in order for us to achieve our mission. These behaviours help us all work well together, deliver on our outcomes, celebrate our successes and share feedback with each other. You can read about these and other aspects of our culture here Culture | Genomics England

Blended working model

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g., lab teams, reception team. 

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are: Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

Onboarding background checks

As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.  We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.