Raspberry Pi Foundation is hiring a
Product Designer

Summary

The role is for a Product Designer at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a UK-based educational charity. The employee will design digital experiences for products that have a large audience and positive impact on young people and educators. The job is based in Cambridge or remotely within the UK with occasional travel to Cambridge.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience of working as a professional digital Product Designer or UI Designer
• Experience creating detailed finessed UI designs that meet both business aims and user needs
• Experience working with software engineers to design products that work within technical limitations
• Understanding of UX research methodologies and how best to test designs with users
• A proactive and self-starting nature, you should be a problem-solver and like to fix things along with being open to providing and receiving constructive feedback
• Excellent communication skills, the ability to clearly articulate your thinking and present to teams across the organisation
• Experience of working with a range of stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Deliver creative visual and UI design with best practice UX thinking, across our range of digital products that meets the needs of our different user groups
• Work as part of a cross-functional team who are passionate about ensuring our products provide meaningful and engaging experiences which delight our users
• Put users at the centre of the design process and validate your work by working with user experience researchers to test with users often and be able to iterate based on feedback and insight
• Clearly communicate ideas to stakeholders through presenting designs, prototypes and design thinking
• Help improve our ways of working including contributing to the development of our Design System
• Advocate for accessibility and be guided by the ICO’s Age Appropriate Design code to ensure our products are suitable and safe for young-people and volunteers

Preferred Qualifications

An interest in education, especially related to computer science, physical computing, and digital making for young people

Benefits

• 25 days’ annual leave initially, growing to 30 days after five years service
• Company-wide close down for 3 days at the end of the year
• Generous company pension scheme with 8% employer and 4% employee contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance and long-term illness insurance policy
• Investment in professional development and learning
• Flexible work hours as needed, to fit around childcare or other commitments
• Generous family leave policy
• Cycle-to-work scheme and season ticket loan