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Join Save the Children UK as a Digital Experience Design Lead and make a lasting impact on children's lives worldwide.
Overview
Salary £55400 - £67650
Location Farringdon, London/Home-based
Expires Expires at anytime
Organisation summary:
Save the Children UK is on a mission to ensure every child has a bright future by providing health, education, and protection. Joining this organization means contributing to life-changing work that reaches millions of children globally, especially the most vulnerable. It's an opportunity to be part of a dedicated team that is passionate about delivering tangible results and striving for innovation in the charitable sector.
- Role Summary:
- Lead the advancement of customer-centric design thinking across digital platforms.
- Develop key systems and standards to prioritize user needs in digital product design.
- Manage and mentor a diverse team of designers, fostering their growth and development.
- Role Requirements:
- Demonstrated experience in leading a design team.
- Expertise in customer-led product design with a creative and solution-oriented approach.
- Strong portfolio showcasing customer-led design projects, supported by data and user research.
- Exceptional communication skills capable of conveying design vision and strategies to senior leadership and stakeholders.
- Leadership qualities that empower and inspire team development and growth.
- Application Process Details:
- Submit your application promptly to avoid disappointment due to potential early vacancy closure from a high volume of applications.
- Note that applications submitted after the vacancy has closed will not be considered.
Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Digital Experience Design Lead to join our forward thinking DDaT team.
About Us Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. We work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
About the role The Digital Experience Design Lead will play a leading role in driving forward and embedding customer-centric design thinking and capabilities across our digital experiences. The role-holder will lead on developing the systems and standards to ensure that design of digital products and services has the needs of our users, whether they be supporters, staff or partners.
Job requirements Experience leading, recruiting, and developing a team of designers with varying levels of ability. A deep understanding of customer-led product design, an opportunity and solution-based mindset, and a curiosity for innovation. A portfolio demonstrating excellent customer-led product and experience design case studies, backed by customer data and user research. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate design vision and execute product strategies to senior leadership and stakeholders. Inspirational leadership that advocates for team development and is driven by helping others reach their potential.
Benefits Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance. We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work. We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.
Applications details To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
