Senior Product Designer - 1 Year FTC (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds and London) [...]

A Senior Product Designer at Genomics England will bring cutting‑edge new genomics products to life. You will confidently take the lead on our products from end‑to‑end and help establish first‑class design standards. This core role involves 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’ll apply a deep understanding of user needs and business objectives to ideate, build, and iterate highly relevant products, while improving and documenting our style and component libraries.

Day‑to‑day responsibilities include:

• Get to know the service: what it is, how it works, our users and their needs. We have lots of qualitative research to get you started.
• Design the User Experience: 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: work closely with the Product Manager to translate qualitative and quantitative insights into a product roadmap to deliver user value.
• Champion accessibility: design accessible experiences with a content designer to ensure everyone can access and use the product.
• Apply frameworks: 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.

Salary and Contract:

• Salary: £63,300 per annum.
• Contract: 1‑year fixed‑term contract.

Benefits:

• 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%), 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: 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 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.

If you’re a Senior Product Designer with a demonstrable track record of leading end‑to‑end product design, shaping intuitive digital experiences, and turning user insight into real‑world impact, this is a rare chance to do it at Genomics England, helping build products that can genuinely transform lives through genomics.