Senior Product Designer

Posted Dec 22

Description

We are on a quest for extraordinary individuals who are mission-driven and aspire to create a profound and positive impact in the world by addressing the skills crisis. Our dazzle of zebras is a force to be reckoned with - they possess unwavering determination, take decisive action, push boundaries with innovative ideas, and thrive in an environment that offers autonomy, trust, and accountability to deliver exceptional outcomes.

The skills crisis is a colossal challenge, one that is expected to have a greater economic impact than the COVID-19 pandemic. The shortage of skilled workers is leaving millions of positions unfilled, and this crisis has been deemed by the World Economic Forum as one of the biggest challenges of our time, second only to climate change.

The world’s largest companies are transforming into skills-based organisations to survive, but most are struggling to do so without the proper tools. That's where we come in - we have built an innovative platform for workforce management that empowers companies to make skill-based decisions and thrive.

Our existing clients have already witnessed the positive impact that skill-based decision-making has on organisational performance, diversity, culture, and management insight. We have several FTSE100 customers and have recently secured £7.7 million in Series A funding.

We are now assembling the right team to help us become the leader in the multi-billion dollar skill-based workforce planning market. Our mission is clear and ambitious - we will unite 10 million people with opportunities at the world’s leading employers based on skills by 2030. In doing so, we will be driving a quarter of all people-decisions and will be making a significant contribution towards solving the skills crisis. We’d love you to join us and make a difference that will shape the future for generations to come!

The Challenge

The ultimate aim is to build a fantastic experience that meets the needs of our users. Of course, a significant part of the fun will be figuring out exactly what those user needs are, and testing ideas quickly.

The Team

You will report into the Head of Design. Together with a Product Manager and Engineering Lead you will co-lead one of our globally distributed product teams. You will also get to work closely with other stakeholders across the business, such as management, commercial and operations teams.

The Growth

Our product suite is growing and our product, design and engineering (PDE) team is expanding with it. As we scale, there will be plenty of opportunities for personal development, including mentoring of junior designers whilst being supported by our Head of Design. This is also a great opportunity to help shape our future products.

Requirements

  • Own a key product area with your product management and engineering counterparts, working closely with the Head of Design to develop our overall vision and strategy
  • Shape a vision for your product area that aligns with our overall vision, inspiring your team in building towards it
  • Discover, validate and communicate real needs of users using a mix of qualitative user research (tactical and strategic) and quantitative data
  • Facilitate innovation, working closely with product management, engineering and commercial functions
  • Design smart UX and UI solutions and work closely with engineering peers to ensure feasibility and implementation
  • Be accountable for the user experience of your area
  • Co-own and develop our design system as senior member of the Design team
  • Actively engage and communicate clearly and effectively with stakeholders at all levels
  • Know the HR industry, the competitive landscape and our company strategy

Benefits

  • You have experience with designing functional and complex web based digital products
  • You have a firm understanding of a user centred, iterative design thinking approach and are able to facilitate innovation projects with stakeholders of other functions
  • You comfortably plan, execute, and synthesise user research (tactical independently, and strategic with support)
  • You’ve designed and shipped innovative products across the lifecycle
  • You have experience working in house in multi-disciplinary product teams
  • You solve specific interaction design problems as well as shape user journeys across an entire product, and you habitually consider how details fit into the end-to-end offering
  • You can articulate design decisions and root them to user needs and requirements, and convince others of your reasoning
  • You have strong analytical skills, producing actionable recommendations from user research
  • You have experience shaping and expanding a design system
  • You love working with colleagues to improve your and their skills, and the overall team’s ways of working
  • You communicate clearly and effectively in meetings and in writing
  • You thrive in a start-up environment
  • You ideally have some or strong B2B experience/ experience designing for professional users