UX/UI Designer

Octopus Energy

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London, UK, United Kingdom

Posted on: 2024-03-11

Category: energy

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

We're on a mission to make a big green dent in the universe by building a truly sustainable energy system globally.

That means making power greener, smarter, and more affordable for everyone.

We put customers at the heart of everything we do: with always-fair prices, transparency and outrageous customer service.

We drive system change: with transformative tech to make renewable energy the norm and end global reliance on fossil fuels.

Octopus Energy Group is made up of 10 businesses spanning 6 countries across 3 continents, including: Octopus Energy Retail, Kraken Technologies, Octopus Energy Generation, Kraken Flex, Octopus Electric Vehicles, and the Octopus Centre for Net Zero. More on OEG @ octopusenergy.group

Kraken is the technology tentacle of the Octopus Energy Group.

Our team

All our technology is written and maintained by a multi-disciplined engineering team of around 700 people globally. Our engineers work in ‘super teams’ which are focused on key areas of our platform as well as other innovative products. This also includes server-side, client-side and mobile engineers working closely with UX experts, copywriters and designers.

We're looking for a UX/UI Designer who is passionate about designing simple, elegant user experiences, and using human-centred design as a source of inspiration to solve complex problems on behalf of our current customers.

Kraken is the technology platform behind Octopus Energy! The platform is also offered to utilities in a SaaS model and is based on a modern, cloud-based architecture with continuous deployments that enables high-speed innovation.

We’re now charging our Kraken platform to power utilities beyond just energy (think water, broadband,..) and have created a new business area; Kraken Utilities. Over the last year we have built this team from scratch to re-architect, design, and develop our Kraken software platform to solve complex industry wide problems within the water and broadband sectors (such as customer experience & water leak detection software).

The Kraken Utilities team is in a very exciting growth phase; it is currently 80+ people (engineers, product, implementation, design, strategy), and have already signed their first 4 clients (Portsmouth Water, Severn Trent, Leep, and Cuckoo Broadband).

We will need someone who can come to our London office in Oxford Circus 2 days a week.

We're very excited to be growing our team. We're looking for skills and experience to help shape and define the future of not only our team, but the wider business at a global scale. If you're reading this and grinning, please apply! There are huge challenges to tackle, and we need amazing people who are keen to get stuck in.

If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you.

Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.

What you'll do

Help define how customers manage their water account, through an online management portal

Contribute to building and maintaining our Design system, its library, documentation and patterns

Collaborate on other projects across the company such as: improving the user experience and interface of different areas of our support site, helping with design requests and conducting UX audits of Kraken partner journeys

Work day-to-day in a cross-functional team with different stakeholders (developers, PMs, users, clients) when designing new features and products

Apply the full end-to-end product design process; Conduct qualitative and quantitative research to help understand both user and business needs; produce and share wireframes, and mockups that can be tested and eventually developed.

Share designs for feedback early and often, and offer design feedback to other team members

Plan and facilitate workshops, user interviews, usability testing and discovery activities to understand how we can best meet our energy specialists’ needs

Refining and adding to our design process documentation, onboarding materials and trying out new design processes with the team where possible

Communicate with both technical and non-technical colleagues, successfully defining roadmaps for projects with big picture strategy

What you'll need

At least 2 years of professional experience designing digital products, and/or a portfolio that demonstrates ability to deliver well-crafted products

Experience working with Design Systems and component libraries

High proficiency with Figma - It is our main design tool

Design processes, knowing what steps are needed and which ones can be skipped based on the specific project or problem you are working on

The ability to clearly communicate and motivate design decisions to team members and stakeholders

Experience working with teams composed of designers, PMs, Front-End and Back-End developers

Attention to detail; ensuring something is done well, rather than fast but poorly

The ability to focus on user needs and knowing how to improve usability/UX

A focus on accessibility and inclusion when designing components, interfaces and interactions

You'll also need to a have at least a basic understanding of/experience with:

Considering front-end frameworks (Bootstrap, React…), HTML and CSS to be able to communicate your designs with devs and find workarounds when feasibility issues occur

Participating in team stand-up meetings with developers and product managers

Usage of project management software like Asana or Jira, knowledge of the agile process and organising work with tasks

Knowledge of web accessibility and designing for accessibility

Using analytics tools (Google Analytics, Hotjar…)

Performing user interviews and user testing

Some of the things you'll love

💜 Your new team: working as part of the Kraken design team with other passionate and super friendly UX/UI Designers

💖 The wider Tech team: everyone you’ll meet is friendly, kind, collaborative and knowledgeable

🍿 Design talks: share something cool that you know, do or learned with the rest of the team, or simply sit back with some popcorns and enjoy

🧖‍♂️ Spa-days: one day every month where you can work on something small and fun or quick wins for our users outside of your daily tasks.

🎯 Team socials: we have team socials regularly (both remote and in person, previous activities have included jewellery making, drink and paint nights, VR games to name a few) as well as occasional team lunches!

📝 Regular 1-1s: you’ll have bi-weekly 1-1s with your manager to discuss and monitor your personal goals and growth and team and company goals

Why else you'll love about us

Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!

Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we we're voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people

Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits

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