Digital Product Designer - 12 month FTC
Description
We have an exciting new opportunity in AXA Health to join us as a Digital Product Designer on a 12-month fixed term contract.
Reporting into the Head of Digital Product, you'll lead the product design process, from initial discovery to final design delivery, working closely with a talented team of product managers, designers, engineers, insights and research specialists.
At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. We're also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.
What you'll be doing:
• Leading the end-to-end design process for your product domain, partnering with product managers, CX professionals, content marketing strategists and engineers to iterate and oversee the user experience of a digital product experience from conception to launch
• Creating user flows, wireframes, UI designs and prototypes when appropriate, and work with front end developers to ensure design system components are included and accurately executed in our component library as part of the software development process
• Ensuring our digital design and visual language is consistently applied and conforms to AXA group digital brand guidelines, and adhere to the latest WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards
• Being an active participant and contributor to the AXA Health and UK&I digital design community, sharing best practice, and leveraging cross group capabilities to improve efficiency and effectiveness of digital design and development
• Playing an active role in discovery, user research and usability testing of your designs and prototypes, ensuring designs meet user needs, and products are intuitive and easy to use
• Becoming a primary member and contributor to AXA Health (and UK&I group) Figma design system. Managing the development, expansion and evolution of the design system, component library and visual language
Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we're able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you're interested in joining us at AXA, please don't hesitate to apply.
What you'll bring:
• Proven experience building, designing, launching and managing consumer quality digital products and services
• Strong understanding and practical experience with design prototypes for multiple devices and break points
• Competent with design tooling such as Figma, Illustrator and After Effects
• Ability to work collaboratively with people at all levels across engineering, product management, product marketing, user research, CX and other business areas to co-create solutions to customer problems
• Agile mindset to identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes
• Proactive and relentless approach to self-improvement and appetite to stay in tune with digital business, the latest design methods and standards including accessibility and market trends
• Customer focused with an in-depth understanding of user centred design principles, and represent the customer in all decision making
• Advocate for product design practices to help grow a culture of user centred, product oriented digital product and service development
As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.
What we offer:
At AXA UK, we're appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:
• Competitive annual salary of £50,000 - £60,000 dependent on experience
• Discretionary company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private health cover
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts
To apply, click on the 'apply for this job' button, you'll then need to log in or create a profile to submit your CV. We're proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and don't discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. If you have a long-term condition or disability and require adjustments during the application or interview process, we're proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge. For our support, please send an email to lauren.standen@axa-insurance.co.uk.
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Who we are:
At AXA Health, we help our members be the best version of themselves by providing access to health and wellbeing support for mind and body. We're transforming our business by developing easy, efficient, digital experiences for our customers. We're a collective of specialists passionate about helping our members flourish, whether that's individuals and families, small businesses or huge corporates.