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Location: Hub based! Bristol, London or Glasgow

But you have the flexibility to work wherever suits you best

Team:  Experience Design & Research

Salary banding: £70,000 - £80,000

Experience: Experienced

Working pattern:Full-Time / 12 month FTC 

Reporting to: Rachel McConnell - Senior Design Manager

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Collaborator, advocate, designer

Top 3 qualities for this role: Creativity, communication, pragmatism

In the words of the team, you should leave your current role for this one because….

We’re on a mission to build the most effective and impactful UX team on the planet!

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

The UX team are the DNA that exists to connect our customers, business and brand. We play a pivotal role in helping and supporting our customers on our Zero Carbon journey by crafting experiences that power the movement today and lead the path to the future.

This role in a nutshell:

We’re looking for a Content Designer to help us build and create simple, compelling experiences for our users.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Researchers and Product Designers to build solutions that achieve our business goals
• Define the product content strategy for your product area
• Find opportunities to improve the user experience and our product metrics through content
• Use information architecture and prioritisation methods to structure and organise content effectively
• Work with product designers to create new concepts that can be tested with users
• Work with cross-functional partners to make sure our content connects across all parts of the user experience
• Contribute to our content and UX community by participating in crits, sharing skills, and advocating for content design
• Work alongside content producers to ensure content is built to spec

Systems: Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides etc), Jira, Confluence, Miro and Figma

You’ll be a successful Content Designer at OVO if you…

• A pragmatic and highly collaborative person, who thrives in a dynamic environment
• You have worked in multi-discipline teams on consumer-facing web and app

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £70,000 - £80,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us!

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay.  It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits. Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays). For your healthWith benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and moreFor your wellbeingWith gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more For your lifestyle With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donationsFor your home  Get up to £300 off any OVO Energy plan (when you pay by Direct Debit), plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargersFor your commute Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you! If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..