Product Designer
Posted Today by Action for Children
£40,600 Per year
Fixed-Term
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The Product Designer role is a Fixed Term Contract position focused on managing the research, scoping, and design of products and services aimed at supporting children, young people, and parents. The ideal candidate will have experience in creating user-led, accessible, and impactful products, working collaboratively within a cross-functional team. This position offers a salary of £40,600 per annum and is home-based, with a contract lasting until March 31, 2026. The role emphasizes the importance of user engagement and the development of income-generating products.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design aspect on key integrated projects to create income-generating and impact-based products.
- Design the look and feel of products ensuring creativity is bold, engaging, and appropriate for the audience.
- Develop an expert understanding of users’ needs and champion these in product delivery.
- Define, explain, and iterate a product vision for small- and medium-size products.
- Create measurable goals for products and report progress against stated benefits.
- Collaborate with product teams in developing and delivering large-scale products.
- Upskill and train colleagues across the organization.
- Optimize existing products and manage optimization cycles including user testing and stakeholder management.
- Engage with users and utilize qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
- Utilize idea generation tools and techniques in workshops or individually.
Key Skills:
- Experience in designing income-generating products.
- Ability to engage with users and produce personas, user stories, and insights.
- Strong project management skills.
- Collaborative working with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Passion for creating impactful products.
Salary (Rate): £40,600 yearly
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Product Designer. Salary: £40,600 per annum pro rata. Location: Homebased. Contract: Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2026 – 35 hours per week. Benefits: 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave. Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities. Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages. Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover. Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailer's discounts.
Why Action for Children? Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It is the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.
A bit about the role In this Fixed Term Contract role as Product Designer, you will manage the research, scoping and design of several products and services that support children, young people and parents. A key product you will be working on is for parents and funded by one of our incredibly generous partners. The ideal candidate will be experienced in and passionate about creating user-led, accessible and impactful products that are income generating or impact led – or both! You will be working in a cross-functional team made up of product designers, product managers, developers, marketers and stakeholders.
How you'll help to create brighter futures Leading the design aspect on key integrated projects to design income generating and impact-based products. Design the look and feel of products ensuring the creative is bold, engaging and appropriate for the audience. Develop an expert understanding of the users’ needs and champion these in the delivery of small and medium size products by engaging with users and stakeholders through multiple channels. Define, explain and iterate a product vision for small- and medium-size products. Create measurable goals for your products and report against these to demonstrate progress against stated benefits. Work alongside product teams in developing and delivering large-scale products. Upskill and train colleagues across the organisation.
Let's talk about you as Product Designer Optimising existing products, project managing optimisation cycles including user testing and stakeholder management. Leading and working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams. Experience of designing income generating products. Engaging with users and using qualitative and quantitative research techniques to produce personas, user stories and user insights. Idea generation tools and techniques (either in a workshop setting or individually). Product design with a passion for creating income-generating products. Please see the Job Description for the full list of accountabilities and requirements.
Find us on X, Linkedin, Facebook or YouTube to get to know us better. Closing Date: Wednesday 16th July 2025. Interviews are scheduled for week commencing 21st July 2025 by MS Teams. Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Diversity, equality, and inclusion At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
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