Product Designer

About this role

*Working location will depend on your proximity to an NEC office, if you are within 25 miles of one of our offices, it will be hybrid, if not it can be home based* Help us redefine how complex software products get designed. If you're a designer who enjoys complexity, questions assumptions, likes making things and believes there is nearly always a better way of solving a problem, we'd really like to hear from you. What we have already started We're changing how we design products by bringing design, prototyping and user learning much closer together.

We want designers to be able to explore ideas, make them real and learn from users without unnecessary hand-offs or delay. That means shortening the distance between: Idea → Prototype → User Feedback → Learning → Better Solution We're increasingly enabling designers to work with real coded components and functional prototypes, so ideas can be explored and tested in something much closer to the real product. You do not need to be a software engineer or write code, but you should be excited about learning new ways of working and about the rapidly changing relationship between design, AI and software development.

You won't just use our design system. You'll help create it. We're modernising complex, long-established software products. That creates an unusual design opportunity. You won't be joining an organisation where every interaction has already been solved and documented in a mature design system. Instead, you'll encounter difficult and sometimes unfamiliar interaction problems. We expect our designers to investigate those problems, identify patterns, establish principles, test solutions against real-world scenarios and help turn what we learn into reusable product standards and design patterns.

You'll therefore be helping to shape not just individual features, but the design language of our future products. The kind of designer we're looking for We're deliberately not defining this role by a specific number of years' experience. We're much more interested in the complexity of the problems you've solved, how you think and the impact you've personally had. You're analytical You enjoy getting beneath the surface of a problem.

You're comfortable absorbing complex information, identifying relationships, separating evidence from assumptions and finding structure in something that initially appears messy. You're curious If you don't understand something, you'll keep asking questions until you do. You want to understand how users think, why existing processes developed, what constraints are real and which ones exist simply because "that's how we've always done it." You enjoy the opportunity to tackle complex, unfamiliar problems and make sense of them.