Job Description

Posting End Date: August 1, 2023

Join John Lewis or Waitrose today

If you\'ve ever stepped through the doors of a John Lewis or Waitrose shop, shopped online, or seen any of our adverts, you\'ll know there\'s something unique about us.

That unique proposition is our Partners. As co-owners they have a say in our business and receive a share of the profits, so they put time and effort into making it work. Our Partners are the reason we\'re the success we are. They\'re our secret sauce; the opportunity for us to differentiate.

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At a glance

We know flexible working is important to you, and it is important to us too. The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach meaning you\'ll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. The Product Design team aim for 1 day a week in the office- to connect and on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings but again, are flexible on this.

We are looking to offer a salary up to the budget of \xc2\xa360 000.

This position is a permanent contract.

About the role

As a Senior Product Designer you\xe2\x80\x99ll be part of a cross-functional product team, leading the design for that product area. You will be responsible for the entire Product Design lifecycle from initial discovery & vision setting, through to the execution of final UI designs. As a customer-centric, innovative thinker you will deeply understand the customer through research, use of insights and analysis of data to ensure you are designing solutions that meet their needs and deliver value.

You\'ll collaborate regularly using strong communication, documentation and facilitation skills, working closely with Product Owners, Engineers, User researchers, UX Writers and stakeholders to make sure your team isn\'t just building great designs, but they are fully involved throughout the design process.

Key responsibilities

Lead design for a product area- making sure it compliments a cohesive overall Waitrose experience, and delivering on incremental steps to help the team head in this direction.

You\'ll be responsible for all design, following design thinking methodology from initial discovery and user journey mapping through to the execution of final production ready UI design working with our design system.

Deeply understand the customers you\'re designing for. Whether it\'s joining user research sessions, learning from previous insights, reading data reports or running your own lightweight research and analysis, you\'ll strive to understand the what, why and how of the problems you\'re solving to ensure we don\'t just build the thing right, but we build the right thing.

Essential Skills & Experience you\xe2\x80\x99ll need

Significant experience in an individual contributor role on a product design team

Experience with product design thinking lifecycles from discovery / research through to the final UI design and have a well trained eye for great visual design execution with a portfolio to showcase this work

You enjoy working in a agile environment, thinking through complex product challenges and care about solving the right problem

Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and clearly articulate design decisions

Understanding of the technical implications of design decisions

Passion for problem solving and UX Design

You are excellent at communicating your thinking and design decisions with a people-focused mentality to help set up frameworks and brainstorm initial design concepts

Desirable Skills and Experience

Retail ecommerce experience within a large organisation

Experience working with modern design tools like Figma

Working knowledge of modern front-end programming

The ability to design and maintain cross-platform design systems

Experience in conducting research

App Design

An understanding of accessibility design

Benefits of the Partnership and the role

You will enjoy 25% discount at John Lewis and 20% in Waitrose

The Partnership has a competitive pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay)

Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy

Find out more about the extensive range of exciting benefits that you could enjoy when you join us on our website under About the Partnership; Benefits.

Next Steps

The application form consists of a CV upload followed by application questions. Please ensure you refresh the page each time you complete a task to ensure you complete everything that you need to in time. (If internal, check your Workday notifications and see further guidance on the PDW under "Internal application process").

You are welcome to include an addtional attachment containing portfolio work to support your application, there is an addtional question to include a URL to view your work online if that is your preferance.

Once you\'ve submitted an application the next steps of the process, if successful, are likely to include an informal virtual meeting with the hiring managers, to discuss your CV and Portfolio, as well as a formal interview in August.

You\'ll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we\'ll be sure to discuss it with you.

Thanks for your patience in the meantime and for showing an interest in joining JLP.

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Pay Range: \xc2\xa347,700.00 up to \xc2\xa369,900.00 Annual

Scheduled Weekly hours: 35

Worker Type: Permanent Partner

Job Level: Partnership Level 7

Hours of Work: 35

At the John Lewis Partnership, we embrace our differences. We want you to be you. Because, well, we know you\'re at your best when you\'re free to be yourself.

Being a truly inclusive employer to us means creating an environment which celebrates your contribution, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief. It\'s why we\'ve set our own aim to become the UK\xe2\x80\x99s most inclusive business - for our Partners (employees) and our customers.

We firmly believe that our future success lies in diversity of thought from all Partners and it\'s integral in our mission to build a happier world. \xf0\x9f\x8c\x8d \xf0\x9f\x92\x9a

We welcome applications from everyone interested in working for us. And, once you\'re a Partner, your differences will make all the difference.

Find out more about D&I in the Partnership .

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where it is possible to do so. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.

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