Senior Product Designer

Care Planner Ltd; Bournemouth; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and care technology firm is seeking a Senior Product Designer to create and enhance user-centric products. In this role, you will advocate for end users through practical design thinking and collaboration with Product and Engineering teams. You will be responsible for designing accessible and engaging user experiences. The position offers a competitive salary, 25 days of annual leave, and various well-being benefits, promoting a positive work environment.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Private Medical Insurance

Pension

Career Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in UX Product Design within a SaaS B2B environment.
• Experience across multiple disciplines of design.
• Strong foundation in WCAG accessibility standards.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design system development for consistency.
• Conduct user research to understand user needs.
• Create wireframes, user flows, and prototypes.
• Plan usability testing sessions for feedback.
• Collaborate with Product Managers on user needs.
• Document design processes and guidelines.

Skills

User-centred design principles

Proficiency in Figma

User research methodologies

Agile methodologies

Tools

Figma

Other design tools

Job description

Job Title: Senior Product Designer

Reporting To: Head of Design

Location: Bournemouth with hybrid working

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Full Time 37.5 hours a week

Our Purpose

Nourish is a market leader in enabling Sustainable Health and Care Systems, delivering outcomes that matter to people; it’s a new way of thinking about delivering efficient health and care at very large scale, personalised to each one of us.

Nourish is the leading digital social care records platform, suitable for a wide variety of care and support types for services supporting less than 5 people up to services supporting more than 10,000 people. Nourish is used by more than 425,000 carers every day to support 400,000 people within residential, nursing, learning disabilities, domiciliary care, dementia, supported living, and other care and support settings.

The Nourish platform is flexible and configurable providing care and support teams the ability to efficiently plan, record and coordinate care via the desktop app and on the go using the mobile app. With powerful built‑in features such as reporting and analytics, custom interactions and personalised timelines, everyone within the circle of care is continually informed, giving more time for face‑to‑face, person‑centred care. Intuitive and easy to use, Nourish is designed to empower care and support services to deliver exceptional care outcomes.

We are in the midst of one of the most exciting times in our history and while we are the current market leader in the sector we will not become complacent. We are dedicated to our purpose of a better life for everyone. We continue to revolutionise the care sector and our incredible employees are what make this possible.

About the Job

As a Senior Product Designer at Nourish, you’ll be advocating for our end users through practical design thinking and Lean UX, collaborating closely with your counterparts in Product and Engineering to create and enhance user‑centric products. You will be responsible for designing intuitive, accessible and engaging user experiences, ensuring that our products not only meet user needs, but also provide a delightful experience.

The UX/Product Design team at Nourish celebrates a balance of design thinking, research acumen, information architecture and technical knowledge to create products that are usable – functional, simple, and intuitive – at scale.

The role and your responsibilities

• Design System Development: contributes to our new design system as part of overall impact, ensuring consistency across Nourish products and standards. Requires a strong design system background with experience in building components in Figma (including logic, states and variants etc.), accessibility and governance. Must understand technical implementation and be involved in its day‑to‑day development as the system is in its early stages.
• User Research: Conducts user research in alignment with our UXR to understand user needs, behaviours and pain points. Utilises methods such as interviews, surveys, usability testing and analyses insights to form actionable takeaways.
• Design & Prototyping: Creates wireframes, user flows and other design assets to effectively communicate design ideas. Develops high‑fidelity prototypes to illustrate design concepts and user interactions. Collaborates with Product Manager and Lead Developer from initial discovery to iteration, ensuring feasibility, value and best‑in‑class standards of our design solutions.
• User Testing: Plans and conducts usability testing sessions to gather feedback on design prototypes. Analyses user feedback and metrics to iterate on and improve the design. Presents findings and suggestions to both commercial and technical stakeholders.
• Collaboration and Communication: Works closely with Product Managers to align on user needs, product goals and business objectives. Partners with Lead Developers to ensure the design is implemented accurately and effectively. Facilitates design discussions and workshops to foster a shared understanding of user‑centric principles within the team.
• Documentation: Documents design processes, decisions and guidelines to ensure continuity and clarity. Creates detailed design specifications and handoff documents for development.

What else are we looking for?

Proven experience in UX Product Design with some senior experience, preferably within a collaborative cross‑functional team structure in a SaaS B2B environment.

Alongside this:

• Sub Disciplines: Experience across more than one sub‑discipline of interaction design, information architecture, research, visual or UI design is highly desirable.
• Design Tool Fluency: Proficiency in Figma, other design tool experience is a bonus.
• Design Principles: Strong foundation in user‑centred design principles including WCAG accessibility standards and designing for inclusivity. Comprehensive experience of designing for both web and mobile applications delivering a unified user journey.
• Research Methodologies: Skilled in various user research methods (e.g., interviews, surveys, usability testing). Ability to analyse research insights and translate findings into actionable design improvements.
• Agile Methodologies: Embraces an iterative process that allows for continuous improvement in both design development and the collaborative process. Experience working within Agile / Scrum frameworks with the ability to adapt to evolving project needs is an advantage.

Nourish Benefits

• 25 days basic annual leave, plus Bank Holidays.
• Incremental leave benefit of 1 extra day for each completed year of service, up to a maximum of 5 additional days. (Long‑standing employees can enjoy up to 30 days of annual leave per year, plus bank holidays.)
• Extra paid day off for your birthday.
• Paid days off for volunteering opportunities.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Pension.
• Referral Bonus.
• Health and Wellbeing platform including access to 24/7 GP & 24/7 EAP.
• Counselling and support.
• Variable impact workouts.
• Wellbeing videos including prompts for healthy behaviours.
• Wellbeing, care and compassion leave policies.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Career Development opportunities and regular reviews.
• Recognition and Rewards.
• Social Events throughout the year.

All positions at Nourish are subject to a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, references and receipt of the appropriate Right to Work documents.

Nourish is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we actively seek and embrace differences in thinking, experience, ethnicity, age, gender, faith, personalities and styles.

The different skills, experiences and backgrounds our employees bring to their roles creates a diverse and makes Nourish a special place to work.