Product Designer

Life as a Product Designer at Accurx

As a Product Designer at Accurx you get the opportunity, every day, to create experiences that improve the lives of patients, and the happiness of healthcare staff. It's a fulfilling role, one that's shaped by the close relationships we build with our users.

Why it's interesting to join the team...

• With amazing usage in primary care (~98% adoption) and closing a great series B funding round (£27.5m), we're in a really exciting position to innovate with our products. You'll have the opportunity to harness this momentum and make a significant contribution to what we do next.
• Now, more than ever, the health system needs support to provide effective care to patients. You can help solve this very real problem that impacts everyone.
• Whether through our in-house clinical leads, research calls, user support or regular site visits. We keep as close to our end-users as we can. You'll be practising genuine human-centred design day-to-day.

The Team you'll be joining...

You’ll be joining the team focusing on providing patients with everything they need to communicate with NHS staff about their care. It’s a high-impact part of the product with around 2m patients messaged per day. Our diverse patient population who interact with content wherever they are, means that this team has a focus on creating great, accessible, mobile experiences.

What it's like to design with us...

Product Designers at Accurx work as embedded members of cross-functional teams. This means that for your team you are the Product Design expert. You have the autonomy, control and responsibility to provide anything and everything required from your field to help the team build what our users need. Of course, you're not alone. You'll also be part of the Product Design and wider UX function who'll always be there to provide support, share learnings and celebrate your achievements.

Why not take a listen to this Podcast with our Head of Design, Veron Lai who discusses the topic of 'Changing Health Outcomes - Digital Products vs Medication'?

What the team say ...

”I’ve never felt more empowered as a Product Designer as I have since joining Accurx. We’re trusted to solve very real, large scale problems for the NHS which has a lasting impact on healthcare professionals and patients. Throughout it all we’re challenged, uplifted and supported by the strong teams around us.” Sam, navigation team, at Accurx since June ‘23

“It’s been amazing working as a Product Designer at Accurx. We work so collaboratively with different disciplines to better understand user needs and tackle challenging and interesting problems.” Yulee, inbox team, at Accurx since June ‘21

We'd really like to hear from you, if ...

• Follow human-centred design methodologies
• Have proven work experience in a Product Design role
• Have demonstrable product design skills, such as: helping to define research goals, running run collaborative ideation sessions, interpret findings and defining designing solutions
• Have experience designing for mobile devices
• Have experience designing for accessibility
• Understand effective prototyping – opting for the best tool for the job
• Can craft high-quality user interfaces
• Are confident scoping design ideas with stakeholders of different disciplines
• Are willing to advocate for Product Design
• Design thoughtfully with justification for your design decisions
• Have experience contributing to a design system and embrace working in a modular way
• You're mission-driven: you care about positively impacting the lives of millions
• You’re always collaborating: you place team success over personal success and you enjoy working in an open, collaborative environment.
• You demonstrate responsible ownership: when you see something not working, you'll flag it and be part of the solution
• You seek continuous improvement: you’re always developing new skills and insights, while exploring ways to do things better
• You’re mindful of balance: you're conscious of your own health and that of others. You think carefully about how best to focus your efforts, knowing when to push yourself to reach a goal.

Salary & Benefits package:

£50,000 - £55,000 salary + the value of £31,500 share options

£1,000 annual learning & development budget

Enhanced parental leave policy

Prayer, meditation and breastfeeding room

In house therapists available daily

Working abroad policy

?We have our very own Chef! Free healthy breakfasts, snacks and lunches will be provided, with the occasional sweet treat!

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