Senior Product Designer Full Time

BP
Job Profile Summary At bp, we’re striving to meet the growing global demand for safe, sustainable, and affordable energy. A career in digital design is an opportunity to transform the present and invent the future.

bphxd (human experience design) are designing the future of digital and sustainable products putting humans at the heart of everything we do. Our collective mission to is transform bp to a more efficient business in pursuit of our net zero ambition. This may involve developing new businesses, products, and services, or enhancing existing offers, while having space to develop your skills in all kinds of new and exciting ways.
Job Advert The Senior Product Designer is a member of the Product Design network, promoting design standards and supporting the team, as the foundation for crafting cohesive experiences. This role will be passionate about building outstanding experiences and think deeply about people, user experience and visual design, making them better for people, business, and planet.

Your Accountabilities

• Leading and managing a project or workstream, developing world class product design.
• Executing and leading others with strong visual design skills and technical knowledge of implementing and feeding into design systems.
• Using your UX skills and knowledge; to create user flows, wireframes, and IA.
• Driving a user first mentality and a design thinking methodology into everything you do.
• Lead and nurture Junior Product Designers work to focus on user understanding, utilizing human experience design and best practices.
• Actively coach, train, and drive change for product design across bp.

About you
Experience is what matters most. The successful candidate should have experience working as a product designer and with an in-house Design team or at a Design agency. Experience in leading a single team and delivered small to medium scale projects. You should have a portfolio that highlights your approach to problem solving coupled with your skills in research, user experience, and design (both visual and interaction). Other skills include:

• Be a strong communicator, empowering and educating your team and partners on all things Product Design.
• Visual design skills (typography, iconography, composition, color, composition, layout) and be a champion of design quality.
• Knowledge of different research methods, how to structure research and basic tests to reduce the risk of confirmation and other types of bias impacting the results.
• Synthesize and communicate key insights cross-functionally to key partners, always advocating for the user.
• Ability to apply standard methodology principles of inclusive design.
• An advocate and active user of the Design Thinking process and methodology to deliver superior user outcomes: planning, executing, and implementing the end-to-end process.
• Knowledge of Agile or Lean UX or product methodologies and experience working in a collaborative, agile environment is a plus.
• Articulate your design decisions based upon user value and user and business problems.

Why join bp
At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options (60% office, 40% remote), a generous compensation package, paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!

Entity Innovation & Engineering
Job Family Group IT&S Group
Relocation available No
Travel required No
Time Type Full time
Country United Kingdom
About BP INNOVATION & ENGINEERING

Join us in creating, growing, and delivering innovation at pace, enabling us to thrive while transitioning to a net zero world. All without compromising our operational risk management.

Working with us, you can do this by:

• deploying our integrated capability and standards in service of our net zero and safety ambitions
• driving our digital transformation and pioneering new business models
• collaborating to deliver competitive customer-focused energy solutions
• originating, scaling and commercialising innovative ideas, and creating ground-breaking new businesses from them
• protecting us by assuring management of our greatest physical and digital risks

Because together we are:

• Originators, builders, guardians and disruptors
• Engineers, technologists, scientists and entrepreneurs
• Empathetic, curious, creative and inclusive