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Job description
Product/Interaction Designer | Full-time | Salary £27,500-32,500 | Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Salary: £27,500-32,500
Job Type: Full time, 35hrs per week (Monday – Friday, flexi time)
Robotical has an opening to hire a Product/Interaction Designer. This is a full-time position at a growing company which has received high profile investment. We’ve got plans to grow quickly, but more importantly - we’ve got an awesome robot! You will be responsible for helping us grow the product offering and deliver an experience we can continue to be proud of.
Additionally, you will help to support Robotical’s efforts to address the global STEM skills gap and improve engagement in STEM subjects across Primary and Secondary education.
About Robotical
We bring learning to life with Marty the Robot, an educational bipedal robot with a unique leg mechanism and expressive moving eyebrows. Since being founded in 2016, we've designed, manufactured, and shipped more than 10,000 Marty robots to thousands of schools and homes across more than 60 countries. Marty is the best value-for-money humanoid robot on the market! The unique walking mechanism means Marty can walk, turn, dance, kick a ball and so much more. And, because each limb is controlled by specific motors, Marty is also more stable and robust than other walking robots. Through our easy-to-follow lesson plans, Marty is ready to drop straight into the classroom and deliver value without any set-up.
Role & Tasks
This is a multifaceted product role with core responsibilities within product development and maintenance. You will work along side the wider product team to ideate, conceptualize, prototype implement and deliver on product work, while helping to maintain the current product offering. It is essential that the chosen candidate have foundation skills in product development and be comfortable self-directing their workload. In addition to the core responsibilities, the candidate will be involved in user testing, market research and design for manufacture. As a result, an understanding of designing for users, design research and mechanical engineering is essential. As a small agile company, we pride ourselves on our proactive customer support, although our main goal is to produce a product free of faults and bugs. To achieve this, we require strong product testing processes.
Responsibilities include:
- Product Development: Support in the ideation, conceptualization, prototyping, implementation and delivery of product and feature solutions.
- Product Maintenance: Support in the management of the products, feature, and content offerings, as to prevent the emergence of bugs and to keep them up to date.
- Design for Manufacture & QC: Utilize product and mechanical engineering skills to support in the design for manufacture of hardware elements. Additionally utilize these skills to write and delivery quality assurance processes and tools to ensure hardware components are produced to specification.
- Production Support: Support in the preparation and management of production batches.
- Product Testing: Support in the delivery, maintenance and running of testing processes for hardware, Software, Firmware & Content outcomes. Accurately and confidently report on test findings in a detailed and constructive manner.
- User Research: Support in the design and delivery of user testing loops, gathering feedback to inform our product development and boost our customer intelligence.
- Customer Support: a full team effort, help to respond to customer emails and messages through our customer service portal. You will be a Marty expert, providing advice and guidance when needed and potentially delivering training workshops.
About You
- Required: Degree in Product Design, Interaction Design, Design Engineering or similar (Bachelor’s or Master’s).
- Required: Must currently hold or be eligible for a PVG Certificate.
- Required: Passionate about STEM education and improving global engagement in STEM learning.
- Required: Have the confidence and capacity to run the full product development cycle independently.
- Required: Confident in writing and presenting reports on self-lead research/development work.
- Advantageous: Experience within a user facing product development company.
- Advantageous:Experience in the development of interface design and wireframes for software/web products.
- Advantageous: Experience working with 3D CAD
- Advantageous: Experience writing and conducting product test cases, especially for software and hardware.
- Advantageous: An understanding of mechanical engineering to be able to complete DFM work and conduct mechanical assembly analysis.
- Bonus: Experience with tutoring, science outreach and code club facilitation.
- Bonus: Experience with creative technologies.
- Bonus: Experience in a customer facing role.
Reporting
You will mostly report to Finlay Page (Robotical’s Director of Product). However, as a small co-dependent team, you will need to discuss many aspects of your role with the wider team on a regular basis.
Who we’re looking for
Robotical is a small company, so we need somebody who’s capable of learning and working independently and is comfortable prioritizing their own tasks with guidance from the leadership team. You must have an interest in the EdTech space and be passionate about inspiring young engineers and scientists. A willingness to learn new things and teach others is essential.
Workplace & Perks
- You’ll be based at Robotical’s office on Leith walk, Edinburgh.
- Real responsibilities and creative control.
- Unlimited tea and fancy coffee.
- Flexible hours and working arrangements.
- Opportunity to get experience of many facets of a technology startup.
- Gain practical experience in STEM education, most notably coding and robotics.
- 35 days annual leave (which includes flexible bank holidays)
How to apply?
Send an email with your CV and cover letter to [email protected]
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £27,500.00-£32,500.00 per year
Benefits:
- Bereavement leave
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Employee stock ownership plan
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Flexitime
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Flexitime
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 22/06/2023
Reference ID: Product/Interaction Designer | Full-time
