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About the role As a Product Designer, you'll run and help scale our creative design approach used to deliver our HR & Payroll products and services. Design innovation and consumer grade experiences are at the heart of what we do to ensure we keep at the cutting edge of user experience and ahead of our competitors. You'll be involved in all stages of the design process, from concepting and prototyping to working closely with Product Developers. User first principles will be high on your agenda, but we push creative boundaries whilst considering the practicalities of what can be delivered. You'll live and breathe creativity. Please note this is a 12 month fixed-term contract based in our Bristol office on a hybrid basis. Key responsibilities will include: Innovating and evolving our products user experiences by applying user-centric design and strong systems thinking to deliver a best-in-class user experience. Creating and managing a brand illustration system for Zellis covering our flagship products. Ensuring our design system meets and leads accessibility standards by applying solid understanding of accessibility criteria and best practices. Utilising creative design techniques to look beyond the obvious and provide different design options to a given problem. Collaborating with the Front-End Developers to bridge the gap between design and engineering to ensure experience-driven outcomes. Utilising other mediums (e.g. motion design, moving image and presentations) to help communicate concepts, ideas and product promotion. Creating innovative user interface designs in response to requirements that are intuitive and have considered user needs, support product innovation, technology requirements, and business needs. Working closely with our product team to ensure designs support product visions. Working at pace whilst not compromising on accuracy and quality of execution. Working closely with Front-End Developers (especially with regards to material 3) to create components ready for usage in products. Utilising the style guides, pattern libraries, component versioning, shared vocabularies, design linters, overall governance, and approvals. Evangelising our creative design throughout the organisation. Skills & experience 5+ years of industry experience in enterprise user experience with a strong focus on design systems. Proficient with design software such as Figma, the Adobe Creative Suite. Solid design knowledge of material 3 and its limitations. Excellent knowledge of working with design systems and interaction patterns. Solid knowledge of web accessibility guidelines. Broad range of core design, motion, video and presentation skills. Have worked closely with Front-End Developers to ensure components meet the required design standards. Experiences in documenting design patterns, creating style guides and communicating the design system across an organisation. Can employ excellent analytical and critical thinking skills in your work. Ability to prioritise and manage several milestones and projects efficiently. Additional d e sirable skills: A degree in a design related subject or related field. Comfortable high-level knowledge of html/css/react paper. Benefits & culture At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services. Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day: Unstoppable together. Always learning. Make it count. Think scale. Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we're proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you'll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that's varied, flexible and hugely supportive. We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you'll receive: A competitive base salary. 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday. Private medical insurance. Life assurance 4x salary. Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%. A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.

As the organisation's Product Design Technical Writer , you will be leading the way on the design documentation necessary to implement exciting legislative changes and upskilling and supporting our teams. You'll be responsible for helping us define, streamline and implement our approach to design and technical documentation within the organisation. You'll support the drafting of templates and exemplars and define appropriate storage structures. You will be the contract owner for relevant documentation tools and train and upskill the team. We're in an exciting phase of organisational growth and change as we implement important legislation that will protect UK businesses and our economy. We're a cross-discipline team, offering opportunities to work together to resolve complex documentation challenges that enable us to deliver great outcomes. We're also a team who believe strongly in the value of professional development, whether that's through our active internal communities of practise, our cross-government communities and events or the learning and development opportunities we offer. You'll be using your skills to make a difference in delivering services that will be used by millions of users and that impact the UK economy. Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%. Please note - Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. Additionally, Security Clearance is an essential requirement (minimum residency criteria is in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years). Please see 'Things you need to know' section below for more information. Job description We're looking for a Technical Writer to join our Product Design team and work alongside our Analysts, Product Managers and User Centred Design professions. You'll be supporting our leadership team to set standards, create templates and define ways of working and champion technical writing standards. Your responsibilities will include: Collaborating with Heads of Profession, our Analysis, User Centred Design and Product Management teams and other stakeholders to obtain an in-depth understanding of our services and processes and the documentation requirements and creating accessible design documentation templates. Creating Product Design documentation and supporting staff in creating documentation after a thorough collaboration with subject matter specialists and technical staff. Improving existing and potential content, converting complex documentation to easy-to-understand language for technical and non-technical audiences. Circulating product design information and documentation and encouraging the sharing of information. Working with Heads of Profession to define our documentation Standards, ensuring the quality of documentation is met and targets the correct audience. Ensure documentation is relevant and is kept up-to-date. Ensuring we minimise duplication / redundancy. Familiarising yourself with product design methodologies and best practises and implementing this in our documentation and templates. Defining access control (secure docs). Keeping up to date with documentation best practices and cross government communities of practise and innovating and implementing within the team. Choosing the appropriate documentation medium (SharePoint, Confluence, GitHub, Mural, Figma), data structure and storage, supporting staff training and best practises. Managing contracts for Product Design documentation software. Person specification We are looking for someone with the following: Experience defining, implementing and writing design documentation for digital or other complex technical services or products and supporting others to do so in an agile organisation. Experience working closely with relevant stakeholders to understand the impact of and influence future organisational requirements to refine documentation roadmaps. Experience influencing senior stakeholders and communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences. Proven ability to build consensus between diverse and often conflicting interests, to achieve agreement on design standards and documentation. Familiar with design documentation; process flows, ‘as is and ‘to be flows, road maps, stakeholder maps, etc. An eagerness to influence how digital services are documented and delivered. A systematic collaborative approach to solving problems. Experience implementing change and innovative approaches to technical writing and support the successful adoption of such ideas, driving improved performance. About the team The Product Design team sits within our Digital and Technology team and is made up of three professions: Product management, Analysis and User Centred Design. We are passionate about users and ensuring their needs are met. When building our digital services we are responsible for understanding user needs, gather requirements, designing services, prioritising how those services are built and monitoring and iterating those services. Companies House is a fast-paced delivery environment where we are delivering important legislative change. Companies House values its people, their contributions and has created a real sense of community where people seek to create strong connections. Our commitment to learning and development is exceptional, and we believe passionately in the employee experience with is prevalent through the engagement, wellbeing and development strategies which have resulted in Platinum Investors in People and MIND index awards. Benefits Alongside your salary of £41,571, Companies House contributes £12,043 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. We offer an excellent benefits package that includes: a generous 30 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme with a contribution rate of averaging 28% a range of recognition schemes including instant awards to thank and recognise each others efforts and contributions strong ethos of equality, diversity and inclusion great work life balance with flexible and mobile working available for many roles a pro-active approach to employee wellbeing that allows our employees to flourish and be their best at work and has enabled us to become an Investors In People platinum accredited employer online financial support and advice seasonal flu jabs generous maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave allowances a focus on career development and progression a number of inclusive network groups to support our colleagues and a great sports and social society cycle to work scheme staff discount scheme holiday play scheme for children 3 days paid volunteering leave Next Steps Click 'Apply Now' to be taken to our main advert Civil Service Jobs where you can see more details regarding the role, the incredible benefits we have to offer and what it's like to work in Companies House. If you have any questions about the role or process, please reach out to . This role closes on 13 July 2025.