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Job Description:
Are you looking for a career in tech that truly helps make the world a better place? Bp is moving through the biggest transition in its 100+ year history with the goal of becoming one of the world’s largest renewable energy providers and achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050!
To reimagine energy for people and our planet. We want to help the world reach net zero and improve people’s lives. We will aim to dramatically reduce carbon in our operations and in our production, and grow new low carbon businesses, products and services. We will advocate for fundamental and rapid progress towards Paris and strive to be a leader in transparency.
Join us in creating, growing, and delivering innovation at pace, enabling us to thrive while transitioning to a net zero world. All without compromising our operational risk management. Working with us, you can do this by:
Deploying our integrated capability and standards in service of our net zero and safety ambitions
Driving our digital transformation and pioneering new business models
Collaborating to deliver competitive customer-focused energy solutions
Originating, scaling and commercialising innovative ideas, and creating ground-breaking new businesses from them
Protecting us by assuring management of our greatest physical and digital risks
The Experience Design Lead is a key role in our product-led operating model and is accountable for advising the design quality in our Product teams and delivering on our Responsible Design Strategy.
Working with product and tech leads and with the support of our DesignOps team, you will bring the right skills and capabilities into our digital squads. The role sits at a Product level and may have responsibility for the design of multiple products.
You will lead with influence ensuring clarity on Design direction and empowering our designers to deliver on customer and business outcomes.
Alongside your ability to deliver quality outcomes through your design specialism as a leader, you will have a strong understanding of design best practices across all design disciplines as you will lead multi-disciplinary teams including Service and Business Design, Product Design, Content Design and UX Research.
Participate in ‘hands on’ work as required in the capacity of “player/mentor”, for example facilitating workshops, participating in Design Sprints or collaborating in design reviews in addition to taking the lead on design direction and outcomes
Lead regular design crits and peer reviews, using these to drive design quality across the D&CM Design Directions and in alignment with the Design Strategy / Vision for the product group as well as compliance with design standards & design system, agreed ways of working, and other standards such as accessibility & inclusion
Be a representative of bp's Design & Change Management (D&CM) team, participating in strategy & planning activities
Build design and change resource plans (in partnership with the XD Principal and DesignOps) to ensure clarity and forward planning
Diarise and facilitate regular design & change maturity assessments on agreed products, collaborating with D&CM practitioners, product partners and other teams to identify and prioritise improvement activities and build roadmaps
To ensure all practitioners within product squads have clear objectives and key results which have been agreed with product partners, and report progress against them at an agreed frequency.
A natural leader and expert practitioner in tune with industry trends and developments.
Confident in leading 3rd party designers as a coordinated part of your wider delivery team.
Using well-developed stakeholder management skills to focus Product leadership communication on key messages.
Experience working as a design manager and/or design leader with an in-house design team or at a design agency.
Be a trusted guide for cross-disciplinary partners, helping teams to understand and unlock value from human-centred design
Build an inspiring design culture within the team, championing sustainability usability, diversity and collaboration
Ensure that design teams have an inclusive, safe and respectful environment to reach their maximum potential
Knowledge of agile or lean UX or product methodologies and experience working in a collaborative, agile environment is a plus
At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.
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Legal Disclaimer:
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us to request accommodations.
If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.