Senior Product Designer - 12 month FTC

Experian plc; City of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global data and technology company is looking for a Senior Product Designer to join their innovation team on a 12-month contract. The role involves uncovering customer needs, creating prototypes, and collaborating with stakeholders to validate new product opportunities. Ideal candidates will have experience in Product or UX design, particularly in innovation contexts, with a strong focus on business metrics. The position offers a hybrid working model and a competitive benefits package.

Benefits

Hybrid working – 2 days a week in the office

Great compensation package and discretionary bonus

Pension and healthcare benefits

25 days annual leave and additional leave purchase

Qualifications

• Proven experience working in Product or UX Design Roles.
• Experience in early-stage or innovation contexts.
• Strong understanding of business metrics and commercial viability.

Responsibilities

• Partner with user research to uncover customer needs.
• Create prototypes to share ideas quickly.
• Collaborate with partners to validate opportunities.
• Design workshops to align stakeholders.

Skills

Product or UX Design experience

Prototyping skills

Facilitating workshops

Understanding of business metrics

Comfortable in innovation contexts

Job description

Company Description Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We help to redefine lending practices, uncover and prevent fraud, simplify healthcare, create marketing solutions, and gain deeper insights into the automotive market, all using our unique combination of data, analytics and software. We also assist millions of people to accomplish their financial goals and help them save time and money. We invest in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. As a FTSE 100 Index company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN), we have a team of 22,500 people across 32 countries. Our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Learn more at experianplc.com.

Job Description We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to join us on a 12 month fixed term contract. The innovation team’s focus at Experian is to identify, explore and validate white‑space growth opportunities for future products and services. Unlike our primary product teams, this group will work on early‑stage concepts, investigating new verticals, testing new ideas, and shaping potential directions for long‑term diversification. Reporting into the Lead Product Designer you’ll be part of a diverse Product Design Team, while working daily with a small squad consisting of a Product Manager and a Researcher. You will need to be comfortable across the full end‑to‑end of the design process.

Responsibilities

• You will partner with user research to uncover customer needs, test assumptions, and translate insights into relevant concepts. Navigate change, shaping problems, defining priorities, and structuring your own work.
• Create prototypes at different levels of fidelity to explore and share ideas quickly.
• Collaborate with industry partners and internal stakeholders to co‑create solutions and validate opportunities.
• Design and facilitate workshops to align stakeholders, produce ideas, and lead decisions.
• Run lean experiments to test desirability, feasibility, and viability, measuring outcomes to gauge success and market potential.
• Apply a product and business lens to your design decisions, ensuring concepts are both user‑centered and commercially viable.
• Balance short‑term experiments with awareness of how potential innovations could integrate with or improve existing products.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working in Product or UX Design Roles.
• Experience designing in early‑stage or innovation contexts, including product discovery, incubation, or venture‑style work.
• A strong understanding of business metrics, commercial viability, and how design decisions impact our results.
• A portfolio showcasing your strategic approach and process, not just the final solution. Some case‑study examples include: an understanding of the problem space, a design approach with hypotheses and clear measures of success on top of the final execution.
• Experience in prototyping and experimentation and have taken products from 0‑1; you’re comfortable testing ideas at different levels of fidelity and using failure as a learning tool, motivated by a need to validate assumptions through data.
• Experience facilitating workshops, co‑creation sessions or collaborative design activities.
• Tailor your communication style to lead projects, mentor others, and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
• Previous experience in Fintech or other regulated industry desirable.

Benefits

• Hybrid working – 2 days a week in the office
• Great compensation package and discretionary bonus
• Core benefits include pension, Bupa healthcare, sharesave scheme and more
• 25 days annual leave with 8 bank holidays and 3 volunteering days. You can purchase additional annual leave.

Grade: D/EB8

Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and affirmative action employer. Innovation is an important part of Experian’s DNA and practices, and our diverse workforce drives our success. Everyone can succeed at Experian and bring their whole self to work, irrespective of gender, ethnicity, religion, colour, sexuality, physical ability or age. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at the earliest opportunity.