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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 high‑quality, insight‑led design. Strong mobile experience, design systems thinking and the ability to influence strategy are essential. Experience with motion, AI‑enabled workflows or connected ecosystems is a bonus.
About the role
Some of your accountabilities will include:
Crafting the Hive app experience
Leading end‑to‑end design for mobile app features, aligned to platform and accessibility standards
Creating flows, wireframes and prototypes to test and validate ideas
Making complex smart‑home 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, content‑driven CMS templates
Collaborating across teams and stakeholders
Partnering with product, engineering, platform, commercial, copy and brand teams
Presenting work clearly and navigating trade‑offs
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 mid‑weight 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
Extensive mobile app experience and knowledge of platform guidelines
Experience contributing to design systems at scale
CMS and content‑driven design experience
Proficiency in Figma and prototyping tools
Research skills, from planning to insight‑led 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 design‑related 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
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