The role
As a Senior Product Designer within the Mortgages team at Rightmove, you’ll lead design for products that help home buyers and movers explore affordability and progress through their mortgage journey with confidence. Being part of Mortgages team, your work will span from early discovery and hypothesis-driven experimentation to delivery and optimisation, shaping the future of Mortgages at Rightmove.
Partnering with the multidisciplinary team (Product Manager, Engineers, Content Designers, and Compliance), and with guidance and support from the Lead product designer, you’ll craft product experiences that are user friendly, compliant, and accessible to drive consumer engagement. You’ll also collaborate with teams across Rightmove to ensure joined-up experiences across the consumer journeys and help drive funnel conversion.
The Experience Design Team at Rightmove is a talented and collaborative group of 25+ designers and researchers, shaping the future of user experiences through Product Design, Content Design and User Research. We’re collectively responsible for establishing and maintaining ways of working, and as a team we set the UI standards and support the design system advocates, to ensure consistency of our design outputs across the different business verticals.
We're looking for someone who
Can demonstrate commercial acumen and can leverage problem solving skills and design thinking in service of business objectives as well as user needs.
Have knowledge of Mortgages, experience working in a regulated environment or property sector. This is a plus, not essential.
Show a willingness to gain an in-depth understanding of the product, its end users, and key team stakeholders.
Nurture and manage key relationships within the company beyond your immediate team and invested in the success of your team and pursue shared goals.
Cultivate a mindset of continuous growth through actively seeking and giving constructive feedback, with the end goal of achieving good outcomes for the user and business.
Are highly organised and comfortable with a certain degree of context-switching in your day-to-day.
Are pragmatic and understand the iterative nature of your projects and can prioritise according to impact and constraints.
Are a good communicator, able to bring stakeholders and peers on board / along with you for the journey and can demonstrate the impact of your work and decisions
Proactively and autonomously seek opportunities for growth, improvement and innovation and set the pace and standards for outcomes and outputs.
Understand the complexity of working on regulated B2C products and play a key role in shaping strategic discovery and planning, ensuring design decisions align with long-term product and business objectives.
What you’ll bring to the role
You have proven experience as a high performing Senior Product Designer within an end-to-end role, owning projects for their entire lifecycle, from conception and ideation to delivery.
Your portfolio projects showcase a combination of research, UX and UI skills, clear outcomes and impact on the user and business alike.
Knowledge and experience with research methodologies and associated tooling (independently or in support of user researchers), journey mapping, problem-framing and solving, running workshops and collaborative sessions - highly desirable and necessary at least at a base level.
Systems thinking and ability to implement established best practices and patterns to deliver outputs of high standards and accessible, inclusive experiences.
You display maturity and autonomy in managing your time and focus - you can comfortably utilise your skills to craft the vision for your domain, even when navigating some ambiguity.
About Rightmove
Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen.
We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties, and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market.
Despite this growth, we’ve remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here! We’ve done this by placing the Rightmove How's at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include:
We create value…by delivering results and building trust with partners and consumers.
We think bigger…by acting with curiosity and setting bold aspirations.
We care deeply…by being real, having fun, and valuing diversity.
We move together…by being one team - internally collaborative, externally competitive.
We make a difference…by focusing on delivering measurable impact.
We believe in careers that open doors, and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we’re a great place to work, we’re clearly doing something right!
If all this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making...
What we offer
People are the foundation of Rightmove - We’ll help you build a career on it.
Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments
Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan
27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes
Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in office
Contributory stakeholder pension
Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life
Competitive compensation package
Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility
Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan
Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching
Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more
Equal Opportunity
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation.
At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve.
Ultimately, we care much more about the person you are, and how you think and approach things, than a list of qualifications and buzzwords on a CV. Even if you can’t say ‘yes’ to all the above, but are smart, self-motivated and passionate about this role, then get in touch.