Senior Product Designer in Manchester

UK based role – 1 day per week in Manchester office

9.00 – 5.30 Mon-Fri

Six months fixed term contract with opportunity to become permanent

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our world-class Product team.

What we do

Vypris a ManchesterHQ’dPrivate Equity/Venture Capital-backed SaaS business. Our market-leading product intelligence platform provides reliable consumer data to help manufacturers and retailers understand what their customers want to see on shelves. This helps reduce the time and cost spent developing new products, which makes for better products, faster.

We’rea scale-up business with huge growth ambitions.We’veproved product market fit with our existing offering and nowwe’reready to scale at pace.We’reusing scalablenew technologyto reimagine our product intelligence platform with limitless future potential, from personalisation to AI-enhanced insight.

Product Design at Vypr

Our in-house product team works in small, multidisciplinary teams designing and building features using the Shape Upmethodology. This gives us the autonomy to work in whatever way best achieves our goals, with design playinga central rolein shaping direction, not just executing it.

About the role

This role sits within Product in one of our three established feature teams and takes us to a total of 5 designers atVypr.We’remaking it ourown,butwe’vebeen following Basecamp’s shapeupmethodologyand working to a6-weekdelivery cadence. As Senior ProductDesigner,you’lllead on design in the ‘Customer Delight’ team.

The work is interesting and varied: you’ll be tackling new features, defining design standards and patterns and contributing to our component library, working closely with product managers and engineers to turn shape and delivery features and with subject matter experts and customer research to keep decisions grounded in real user needs.

Who you are

• A clear communicator: In your written work and in your conversations. You know that asking questions to clarify your understanding is important, and you can speak confidently about your approach and decisions, pitching at the correct level of detail dependant on context and who you are working with.
• Collaborative: You move between individual-focused work and group collaboration easily.You have a good instinct for when to partner with other team members, and canvassing for feedback and critique is a key part of how you work. Conversing with different disciplines is comfortable, and you will be just as happy working with a member of the sales team as you would another designer. You know that building strong relationships with other colleagues is crucial to you understanding problems and being able to distil them down into design solutions that are useful and easily understood.
• Flexible: You flex your approach depending on where you are in the product development process. Ifyou’renavigatingambiguity,you know what to do to create clarity for yourself and your team members. Ifyou’reworking through somethingthat’salready well defined, you appreciate the clear goal and focus in on how to deliver to it. You know how to break down complex problems using maps, flows, prototypes, wireframes, writtendocumentsor quick sketches to increase your understanding and make progress.
• Comfortable working in cycles: You’rehappy operating within a shaping and feature-delivery rhythm – contributing to shaping conversations, committing to a scope for a cycle, and adapting your process to fit fixed-time, variable-scope delivery.
• A problem solver: You enjoy picking apart a problem and finding evidence to help you solve it. Whether it’s data or user research, you look for information to help you make good decisions. You know there are always 100+different waysto solve a userneed,and youdemonstrategood judgement, zeroing in on solutions that do this well and align back to the product goals.

Your experience

• You have worked in an agile product team as a UX designer, UI designer, interaction designer,designeror product designer
• You are used to delivering value to users regularly through iterative releases. Even better ifyou’veworked with Shape Up before
• You have designed for websites and apps and have a good grasp of the nuances between different platforms
• You’recomfortable talking to users and are knowledgeable about user research best practices
• You have good command of UX design, visual design and service design and can move in and out of detail comfortably
• You’recomfortable working alongside a content designer to ensure product and content decisions stay aligned

Ifyou’reinvited to aninterview,we’llreview your CV and portfolio. If youdon’thave a portfolio, walking throughFigmafiles/work in progress will work well – anything thatprovidesan insight into how you work is suitable.

What we offer

• Company paid medical cashplan
• Enhanced annual leave
• Work from anywhere up to 4 weeks a year
• Access to a global benefits and reward platform
• Access to well-being support, including an
• Employee Assistance Programmes
• Life Assurance
• Day off on your birthday
• Enhanced parental leave

What next?

Our Talent Selection process focuses on creating a mutual,fairand transparent dialogue that helps you and us toestablishwhether the role could be a rewarding career fit. We will create space to discuss your ambitions and our growth plans, as well as the context of the role, give you the opportunity to engage with your potential Line Manager and Team Members,showcaseyour skills in a live task and visit our Manchester HQ.