Product Designer – Design Systems – Social – Up to £80,000

My Client

Our mission is to improve the working lives of one million people by 2025; allowing employees to have flexibility, optionality and autonomy in where and how they work. Our biggest asset in achieving this goal is our diverse team. We are committed to building an equitable, inclusive culture that reflects the ethics and values at the heart of our mission. We actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds and believe that no matter your sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or parental status-you will have the opportunity to succeed and make a difference here. Join us as we make hybrid working easy and accessible to all.

The Role

From day one, as a product designer, you will be embedded into a close-knit, collaborative and supportive product team. You will be working side by side with engineers and product managers to solve problems on a daily basis, making the lives of our customers and internal teams that little bit more delightful.

We value an entrepreneurial mindset, willingness to experiment and fail, and courage to push the needle. We like to work with people who have the humility to course correct if things aren’t working, listen and offer opinions in equal measure and are comfortable working in an environment with lots of unknowns. We are looking for a designer with good UX design roots, experience of the full product lifecycle from user research through to developing solutions, and the ability to craft delightful and usable UIs.

As a growing team this is a great opportunity for someone to not only produce great designs, but to own and champion human centred design. You will help us gain high confidence in what we should build through discovery and solution hypotheses, and support delivery through design system contribution, design output and pairing with other team members.

What you’ll be doing

• Working with PMs and Research to gather and/or utilising existing customer insights to define problems.
• Taking the lead on ideation work to uncover potential solutions * Collaborating closely with engineering and product managers to find solutions that balance usability, feasibility and viability
• Designing frictionless and delightful user journeys and experiences.
• Assisting product engineers at the delivery phase, either through pairing or producing high fidelity designs (or both)
• Helping us build out the design system.
• Presenting designs and defending design decisions to the wider team and stakeholders. Requirements
• Have 3+ years of experience in designing digital products
• A strong problem-solving mindset with experience solving real-world problems through design.
• Solid understanding of UX design principles and processes
• An entrepreneurial and inquisitive nature with an understanding of design thinking.
• Strong communication skills with the confidence to explain and defend design decisions to peers and stakeholders.
• Impressive UI design skills that balance usability and delight.
• Experience working alongside engineers with a basic understanding of how things are built.
• A self-aware, self-motivated and empathetic person.
• Comfortable working alone and collaboratively with a highly cross-functional team.

Nice to haves:

• Experience of working in a marketplace or SaaS company is a plus.
• Experience working in a startup or scale up environment where processes are still being defined
• Experience with gathering and synthesising customer research

Benefits

We pride ourselves as a high-quality employer, with a consistent 5* Glassdoor rating, a team NPS score of 80+ and won Property Week’s Best Places to Work, twice in a row, across 4 categories.

We make sure everyone in the team is comfortable and has the best environment for them. We offer flexible hours, remote working and have a relaxed attitude to taking holiday – focusing only on whether work gets done.

Benefits can be tweaked on an individual basis depending on what makes you most productive. We live what we preach and have always worked hybrid, with time spent in our HQ for culture and collaboration and the flexibility to work from anywhere on other days