Senior UX Design Manager, OVO
£95-100k
+Eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
Open for applications
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£95-100k
+Eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
OVO is a leading energy technology company determined to create a world with clean, affordable energy for everyone. Using energy, technology and people power, the company is on a mission to lower its carbon emissions to zero by 2035, helping customers reduce theirs at the same time - they call this Plan Zero.
Role
Who you are
- Top 3 qualities for this role: Stakeholder management, Product thinker. Strategic
- An experienced design leader who:
- Is highly creative, inspiring and engaging
- Has a track record of managing managers, Product Designer and Content Designers – from fostering growth and talent to recruitment, retention and performance management
- Cares as much about the words as the visuals to create effective experiences
- Has excellent communication skills and the ability to build compelling narratives told in a succinct way
- Is comfortable being more hands on from time-to-time (estimated 5% of the time)
- Has case studies which demonstrate your approach and the impact you’ve had
- You’ll be a successful Senior UX Manager at OVO if you…
- Continually demonstrate the value of design through business and customer metrics and results
- Lead complex projects and large groups of stakeholders
- Are comfortable presenting to large, diverse audiences including C-Suite executives
- Have in-depth knowledge of mobile ecosystems and mobile-first design strategies
- Have managed budgets and third-party vendors
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment and take accountability for driving results
What the job involves
- Reporting to: James Ferguson - Head of UX
- This role in 3 words: People Leader, Creative Vision, Problem solver
- Help shape the future of design, leading a dynamic team to drive design innovation that empowers customers on their journey to Net Zero. Join us to make a real impact, inspire change, and lead the charge in sustainability
- 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
- We’re seeking a Senior UX Design Manager to lead a team of UX Design Managers, Product Designers, and Content Designers. You will balance your time between collaborating with peers in Product and Engineering to set and realise a design vision, and coaching your team to advance our craft
- Lead, grow and inspire a team of Managers and Designers
- Coach and develop designers, promoting skill growth and career advancement to equip them with the right skills and behaviours to lead teams through growth and change
- Build and sustain a highly engaged, challenged and fulfilled team
- Provide strategic leadership to the UX team, fostering a collaborative and creative work environment
- Establish and maintain design standards to ensure consistency and quality across all products, conducting design reviews to provide constructive feedback ensuring high-quality deliverables
- Take a proactive approach and ownership in leading our UX Leadership team to build an inclusive creative culture and drive cross-team initiatives
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, partnering with the Head of Product and Head of Engineering to ensure alignment with overall business goals
- Raise the profile of UX across the business
- Foster collaboration between design disciplines, stakeholders and peers
- Establish, scale and champion user centred design methodologies and ways of working
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
On average, home energy represents 26% of our carbon footprint. Ovo Energy wants to bring this to zero by providing cheaper, greener and simpler energy to customers. They are analysing meter data to deliver easy, personalised actions, turning electric vehicles into power stations with clever chargers, and building energy-efficient heaters. For households, their offering is organised into four different energy plans. that include interest rewards on energy credit balance.
In 2020, OVO completed the acquisition of SSE Energy Services' retail arm for £500 million, meaning that the challenger brand now has around 4 million customers in the UK.
While helping Ovo members halve their carbon footprints, the company is also working towards becoming a net zero carbon business by 2035. The challenges ahead for the company include encouraging consumer behaviour change, shifting towards subscription models for home energy use.
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
42% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Inspiring mission
"The mission to provide Green energy to all customers, and to enable all our customers to start on a journey towards zero carbon living is written in..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$257.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$257.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $555.4m
Company benefits
- Annual Discretionary Bonus
- 9% Flex Pay - extra on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, use as your pension contribution, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits (tech schemes, EV leasing and more!).
- Flexible / Remote Working
- Personal Development Allowances and Free Access to OVOLearn - our very own training platform
- 34 Days Holiday (including bank holidays)
- Health Insurance
- £300 OVO Energy Discount
Company values
- Find a better way - We always look for a better way, whether that’s by delivering a better service, employing brilliant people or improving our products and processes
- Do what's right - Being open, honest and fair is one of the values which applies to everything we do. We take pride in talking to our customers and delivering exceptional work
- Build something great - Simple solutions aren’t quick or easy to find. They take time and tenacity. Our people work to find an answer that helps us ‘build something great’
Company HQ
Redcliffe, Bristol, UK
Articles
Founders
Stephen Fitzpatrick
(Founder)Founder of multiple electric technology companies.
David Buttress
(Chief Executive Officer)CEO of OVO, the UK’s 3rd largest energy supplier. Joined in May 2024.
Diversity & Inclusion at OVO
Alessandro Storer (Head of Inclusion & Belonging )
- We run inclusive training and unconscious bias workshops for employees and interviewers
- We provide mental health support, through different networks, having mental health first aiders within the business and running initiatives like our "wellbeing Wednesdays" to promote this.
- We have dedicated Early Years programmes with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business.
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused I&D job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity.
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech at OVO by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within OVO and the wider community
- Within OVO we have multiple belonging networks and communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- Read more about our commitments to improving Diversity & Inclusion at OVO in our linked belonging report
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