Senior Product Designer - City of London

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Senior Product Designer

Flexible UK Locations with FlexFirst hybrid working

Overview

Within Centrica Home (B2C), the Product Design team creates digital experiences that balance customer needs with business goals. As a Senior Product Designer on Hive, you'll help shape our smart home app, enabling customers to manage their homes more efficiently while reducing energy costs and carbon impact.

You'll own the design of key mobile app features, working autonomously while collaborating closely with product, engineering, commercial and brand teams. You'll define problems, explore solutions through research and prototyping, and deliver highquality, insightled design. Strong mobile experience, design systems thinking and the ability to influence strategy are essential. Experience with motion, AIenabled workflows or connected ecosystems is a bonus.

About the role

Some of your accountabilities will include:

Crafting the Hive app experience

• Leading endtoend design for mobile app features, aligned to platform and accessibility standards

• Creating flows, wireframes and prototypes to test and validate ideas

• Making complex smarthome technology feel simple and intuitive

Working within and evolving our design system

• Contributing scalable components, patterns and documentation

• Championing consistency across the app

• Designing flexible, contentdriven CMS templates

Collaborating across teams and stakeholders

• Partnering with product, engineering, platform, commercial, copy and brand teams

• Presenting work clearly and navigating tradeoffs

• Working closely with engineers to ensure quality delivery

Leading user research and validation

• Running usability testing and unmoderated research

• Partnering with UX Research on complex studies

• Turning insights into actionable design decisions

Mentoring and driving excellence

• Supporting midweight and junior designers

• Staying current with tools and best practice

• Helping improve design processes and culture

What we're looking for

Minimum criteria

• Strong app product design experience with a portfolio showing impact - PLEASE INCLUDE PORTFOLIO OR WORKING LINK

• Extensive mobile app experience and knowledge of platform guidelines

• Experience contributing to design systems at scale

• CMS and contentdriven design experience

• Proficiency in Figma and prototyping tools

• Research skills, from planning to insightled design

• Clear communication and strong accessibility knowledge

Nice to have

• Motion or animation skills for mobile

• Experience using AI tools in your design workflow

Education and Certifications

• A designrelated degree (or equivalent professional experience)

What Makes You Stand Out

• You think creatively and use research to deeply understand problems

• You balance user needs with commercial objectives

• You collaborate confidently across disciplines, including engineering

• You advocate for customers while managing stakeholder priorities

• You care about craft, feedback and continuous learning