Senior Product Designer - Design Systems

Job Description:

• Senior Product Designer - Design Systems
• Grade - C15

Contract – Permanent

• Location: Bupa Place (M50 3SP) or Angel Court (EC2R 7HJ)
• Hybrid working: 2 days per week in the office
• Working hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: From £44,000 per annum, negotiable depending on experience

We make health happen.

You’ll sit alongside a passionate and talented multi-disciplinary experience design team, made up of user researchers, product designers, content designers and design operations, who are focused on creating the best digital experiences for Bupa’s customers in the UK.

As a senior product designer (UI) in the experience design team, you’ll be responsible for the visual design, interaction and design systems across our digital products.

Role purpose:

Help teams create consistent, accessible digital experiences by evolving and scaling Anatomy, Bupa’s design system. As a hands-on senior individual contributor, you’ll improve components, patterns, documentation and adoption, working closely with the Lead Product Designer, engineers and product teams.

How you’ll help us make health happen

• •Design and improve reusable components, patterns and foundations across Figma.
• •Apply shared foundations and tokens, working with engineering to align design and code.
• •Work with engineers to define component behaviour, requirements and acceptance criteria.
• •Review implementations across responsive behaviour, interaction, content and accessibility.
• •Create and maintain clear guidance covering usage, behaviour, content and accessibility.
• •Turn recurring questions and feedback into reusable guidance, examples and demonstrations.
• •Mentor designers and contributors in systems thinking, reusable design and inclusive practice.
• •Investigate requests and distinguish shared system needs from product-specific requirements.
• •Build strong relationships across Design, Product and Engineering to support adoption.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• •Must upload your portfolio along with your CV on application.
• •Strong product design experience, including working with reusable components, patterns and design systems.
• •Strong systems thinking, with the ability to turn complex needs into simple, scalable solutions.
• •Advanced Figma skills across components, variants, Auto Layout, variables and libraries.
• •Experience with Zeroheight, Storybook, Figma Code Connect or similar design-system tooling
• •Strong understanding of design foundations, responsive design and accessibility.
• •Ability to work effectively with engineers, with a practical understanding of how designs translate into code.
• •Strong communication and collaboration skills, including documenting decisions, influencing others and mentoring designers.
• •Familiarity with React component libraries or CMS platforms such as Sitecore.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health, from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

25 days holiday per year, pro rata to your contract.

Access to a range of services to support your physical and mental wellbeing

Fixed term benefits allowance

Access to our confidential employee assistance programme

Workplace pension

Online discounts covering your everyday shopping, entertainment, eating out and more.

Why Bupa

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:

Full time Job Area:

PR , Marketing & Brand Locations:

Angel Court, London, Bupa Place