About the Role
As a Senior Content Designer, you will solve complex health information challenges, designing clear, useful, and trustworthy experiences. You will play a key role in shaping both your squad's work and the future of content design within the organization, bringing a proactive and pragmatic approach to meaningful solutions.
Responsibilities
- Leading content design within your product squad, uncovering problems and shaping solutions in collaboration with Product, Design, and Engineering.
- Connecting with and influencing stakeholders across Product, Ethics, Science, and leadership to align around user-centred solutions.
- Designing clear, accessible, and useful content and experiences across products and services, considering the end-to-end user journey.
- Working closely with Researchers and Behavioural Scientists to ensure decisions are insight-led and evidence-based.
- Defining and shaping content strategies, frameworks, and scalable approaches.
- Taking a pragmatic approach to help teams navigate complexity, understanding technical feasibility and business constraints.
- Improving information architecture, navigation, flows, and content systems.
- Shaping the future of Content Design and contributing to Content Operations, including governance, tooling, workflows, and standards.
- Supporting scalability through patterns, guidance, and design systems.
- Mentoring and coaching more junior team members.
- Advocating for inclusive, accessible, and evidence-led content design practices.
- Continually raising the bar for content design quality, ways of working, and strategic thinking.
Requirements
- Significant experience in a senior or staff-level content design role within a product or service design environment.
- Proven experience of shaping content strategy and influencing product direction.
- Experience of building or improving content operations and systems, and shaping scalable ways of working for content design.
- A highly proactive and pragmatic approach to problem-solving, with confidence navigating ambiguity, constraints, and complexity.
- Significant experience working across wide-ranging disciplines and influencing stakeholders up to the most senior levels.
- The ability to connect content decisions to user needs, organisational goals, and measurable outcomes.
- Experience mentoring and coaching other content designers.
- A deep understanding of accessibility, inclusive design, and user-centred practices.
- Great examples of leading end-to-end content design work beyond microcopy.
- Experience shaping content within design systems and embedding AI tools thoughtfully within content design or product workflows.
- Experience in healthcare or other regulated environments is a plus.
- Skilled at building trust and bringing people across organisations together to influence, collaborate, and align around useful solutions.
- Passionate about user-centred design and excellent at helping others understand the value content design brings.
- A great facilitator, presenter, and communicator, using content design skills to tailor messages to the audience.
- Balances strategic thinking with practical delivery, knowing when to focus on detail and when to shape the bigger picture.
- Excellent at prioritizing, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, and able to manage multiple tasks.
- Brings clarity to complexity and is great at finding paths through ambiguity and challenging constructively.
- Cares deeply about creating experiences that are useful, respectful, and accessible.
Skills
- Content Design
- Content Strategy
- Information Architecture
- User-Centred Design
- Accessibility
- Inclusive Design
- Stakeholder Management
- Mentoring
- Coaching
- Facilitation
- Communication
- Problem-Solving
- Design Systems
- AI Tools
Location
- Central London office in Holborn
- Flexible working arrangements
- Remote working arrangements
Work Type
- Flexible working
- Remote working
Experience Level
- Senior
- Staff-level
Salary/Compensations
- from £74,000
Benefits
- Generous Pension Scheme – employer contributions of up to 12%
- 30 Days Holiday pro rata + Bank Holidays
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Home & Tech Savings
- £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus
- Wellbeing Support – Access to Mental Health First Aiders, 24/7 online GP services, and Employee Assistance Programme
About the Company
- Our Future Health is the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to transform the future of healthcare.
- Millions of people across the UK live with conditions such as cancer, dementia, diabetes, and heart disease.
- By bringing together 5 million volunteers, Our Future Health is creating one of the most detailed pictures of human health ever assembled.
Equal Opportunity
- We recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process.
- We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.
