Senior Product Designer

As a Senior Product Designer you will be part of a growing team and responsible for owning and delivering engaging, creative, intuitive digital experiences that drive user retention, value and enable members to get the most out of our membership and app. You'll bring our product vision to life and drive our big goals forward!

Principle Accountabilities...

• Use design and experiences to empower members to drive their fitness forward and be on top of their health goals.



• Understand and translate customer and business needs to guide our digital products.



• Continuously undertake evaluation of our current end-to-end experiences to identify areas of improvement and optimisation.



• Contribute to and implement our user research strategy, conducting testing, analysis, reporting on results and iterating appropriately.



• Play an essential role in discovery activities with Product Managers and other stakeholders, taking early insights from the workshops to proactively think about where we can take the product.



• Have a detailed knowledge of multi-channel, integrated digital experience and understand the impact of strong design within those experiences.



• Use your excellent communication and collaboration skills to effectively present and articulate design concepts and decisions to stakeholders



• Able to work from end-to end of the design process creating user flows, wireframes and onwards to high fidelity prototypes and effective developer handover. Producing designs that are on-brand and conscious of accessibility and web standards.



• Develop and maintain our Design System.



• Collaborate with colleagues across the UX/UI team & Gym works studio to foster a design community.



• Work closely with our Trading, Commercial, Operations, Property, Finance and Technology teams to ensure our digital experience compliments and supports the overall business strategy.



• Contribute to the improvement of processes within the team and across the business.



• Ensure designs work across browsers and platforms in a fully responsive approach.



• Maintain a highly organised level of working standard producing pixel perfect designs.
  
  Great knowledge of key UX/UI Design Principles and best practice.



• Experience conducting and planning usability tests and sound understanding of research techniques.



• Detailed knowledge and understanding of multi-channel, integrated digital experience



• Ample experience of designing and implementing high-quality designs for mobile and desktop.



• Experience in mobile app design and knowledge of native environments (iOS/Android)



• Experience in working with and evolving a Design System



• Ability to use various design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Marvel, Zeplin, Photoshop, Principle (or equivalent)



• Experience working as part of a fast-paced delivery environment



• Excellent communicator



• Comfort working both independently and collaboratively as part of a cross-functional team.



• High bar for quality, and you know what great work looks like.



• Self-motivated, charismatic, energetic, a great team player
  
  Here at The Gym Group we believe we are simply the best in our industry! Our amazing teams have skills, abilities and can-do attitudes that make this a great place to work! We have strong, embedded values and an easy-going culture which ensures we put our people first. We pride ourselves on being fun, innovative, inclusive and engaging. We are now on the lookout for a Senior Product Designer to join our amazing Digital Team., The Gym Group is not like your average gym! To our members we're the lowest cost nationwide 24/7 Gym with over 230 gyms and counting! To our teams we are fun, welcoming, engaging and inclusive. We challenge our limits and push ourselves to impact positive change with our goals and initiatives. We take steps into new areas with a real and authentic purpose - It's our mission to break down barriers to fitness for all.


We're #1 in our industry when it comes to our values, our culture and our people - check out Glassdoor if you don't believe us. We offer a fantastic place to work in a great working culture and were recognised as #25 in the Top 50 places to work in the UK in 2022! We may be one of the leading budget gym chains in the UK but there's nothing budget about our investment into our people. We have retained GOLD in our investors in people award for the last 6 years and silver in wellbeing last year. We're recognised as a disability confident and inclusive employer which is something we are truly proud of. We have a brilliant team and opportunities for development and growth with support for success. Having recently undertaken some huge projects from a digital point of view and our plans are to keep being innovative, creative and agile in all that we do.

That's what you're looking for right? We're With You! So let us tell you more.

What you need to know about the role...

The Gym's pioneering low-cost, no contract, 24x7 business model relies heavily on innovative digital experiences. All our members join via the website and our online self-serve tools are a key part of the member proposition. Our website and app serve well over 1m users each month, and our digital offering becomes increasingly important as the membership base grows, and the health and fitness industry continues to embrace technology.