Life at CDP
Improve lives through innovation
Starting with your career
Careers at CDP are rewarding and challenging with huge potential to learn and develop your skills and knowledge. You’ll work on diverse development projects and play your part building breakthrough products and technologies for global brands and ambitious start-ups. These innovations improve lives and change the world for the better.
Partnership and teamwork across disciplines are embedded deeply in our culture, because you never know where the best ideas will come from. Integrating seamlessly with our clients’ teams, our projects have a flat and empowering structure that breaks down barriers and allows new ideas to flow. You will have a voice.
Employee Ownership
CDP is one of a small number of companies that are 100% employee-owned. We have an ownership stake in the company and are incentivized to succeed.
Our lean management structure favours trust and support over supervision and rules. Our business processes and project teams are designed to encourage innovation and support creativity. As an employee owner you’ll be able to grow, taking responsibility for client outcomes and your own career.
Learning & Development
Our goal is to remove career barriers, create new leaders, and nurture your skills so that you can be extraordinary at what you do.
We invest in your growth at CDP through training, mentoring and coaching across technical, creative, commercial and leadership skills. Alongside structured programmes, we tailor development to individuals and teams, ensuring stretch goals, meaningful work and real responsibility are part of everyday life.
Social Life
Extraordinary employees bring extraordinary passion for hobbies and interests outside of work. We want to help fuel those fires!
We have many thriving groups of like-minded colleagues, whether you’re a board game devotee, a cyclist, a runner, a soccer player, or the next CDP Ping Pong Champion. We have a busy and imaginative Social Committee that organizes regular Social Clubs and Together Days. Previous events include quiz nights, Mario Kart racing, pumpkin carving, tutored cooking, choir practice, and many more. Bring your passions, and if they’re shared with at least one colleague, you’ve got yourself a group.
Benefits
At CDP we believe great people deserve a great place to work. We create an inclusive, supportive environment where you can grow, thrive, and do your best work. Our competitive benefits package is designed to support your wellbeing, helping you feel healthy, balanced, and at your best, in and out of the office.
UK employee benefits
- Flexible working
- Discretionary bonus based on company performance
- Share incentive plan
- 12% non-contributory pension
- Private healthcare
- Electric vehicle lease salary sacrifice scheme
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Free breakfast, lunch, and fresh fruit on site
US employee benefits
- Flexible working
- Discretionary bonus based on company performance
- Share incentive plan
- 6% matched 401k plan
- Private health insurance, with company contribution
- 15 days holiday plus public holidays, with one day added per year up to 23 days
Our Locations
UK Headquarters
CDP’s purpose-built global headquarters is designed to bring our multidisciplinary teams together in a single, world-class innovation environment. It enables CDP to move seamlessly from insight and design through to prototyping and pilot production, faster and more collaboratively than ever before.
US R&D Center
Our state-of-the-art R&D facility in Raleigh, North Carolina supports our growing US presence. Home to a a core team of innovation experts, it provides advanced labs, design studios, user research spaces, a full machine shop and pilot manufacturing to take products from insight through to production.
A people-centered approach
At CDP, we bring together diverse talent in a collaborative, people-centred environment where we support one another and work as a team to deliver breakthrough solutions and shared success.
Our People
Innovation happens when differences coexist – thinking, world views, backgrounds.
We believe in strength through inclusivity. That’s why we’ll welcome the whole you to work. Your skills and qualifications will make us stronger, but so will your opinions and life experience. As an employee-owned company, we take responsibility for each other. Valuing everyone’s contribution is what enables us to thrive.
An equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to an inclusive workplace that champions success for all. We give qualified applicants equal consideration on this basis.
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