Product Experience Designer

For over 50 years, Designability has designed and provided products that have enabled disabled people to live with greater independence. Our team of talented designers and engineers create innovative new products which have helped hundreds of thousands of people with their day to day challenges. We are best known now for Wizzybug, our powered wheelchair which helps young disabled children move and play independently for often the first time in their lives. Families loan one from us for free thanks to the generous support of our donors. 

We have ambitious plans for the future. We are in a strong financial position with healthy reserves, and have a forward plan for a significant new product innovation, and a partnership project which will have impact on the lives of millions of disabled people. 

This role is a fantastic opportunity to join our dynamic team at an exciting time of growth across our charity, and to make a meaningful difference through our work supporting disabled people to live with greater independence.  You will engage with end users and experts to understand their needs and determine design requirements, developing viable product experiences for disabled people, to facilitating safe and effective user testing to provide critical feedback on the suitability of proposed design solutions.

To be successful in this role, you will be passionate about using design to create positive social impact and have the ability to lead on design or research activities within Designability’s Design & Innovation projects (e.g. concept design or product testing with disabled people), including planning these activities and reporting outcomes.

You will have proven experience of:

• Designing products in response to real life needs
• Working in a multidisciplinary team
• Human centred design methods
• Working in a design or manufacturing company
• Successfully managing workload and project tasks 

Benefits that come with working for Designability 
Looking after its employees is important to Designability – supporting everyone to be happy and healthy means that we live our values of being creative, practical and inclusive and in turn meet our mission to enable disabled people to live with greater independence. We are a Real Living Wage and Disability Confident Employer. We also offer a generous annual leave allowance and substantial employer contribution pension scheme.

To find out what benefits we currently offer to our team, please visit: https://designability.org.uk/benefits-that-come-with-working-for-designability/  

To apply: Please submit your CV and a covering letter, detailing how your skills and experience meet the criteria contained in the Job Description, to [email protected]  

For an informal conversation about this role, please email Keir Haines, Design Innovation Manager: [email protected]     

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