Founding Product Designer

Craft core flows by mapping, prototyping, testing, and iterating on product flows. Design playful game loops and evolve the icon and illustration language.

Responsibilities

• Craft core flows: help us rethink our UX by mapping, prototyping, testing, and iterating on core product flows from end to end
• Spend hours with users: whether it’s identifying new needs or evaluating current features, you’ll spend a lot of time talking to users
• Design playful game loops: create motivating mechanics, rewards, and progression systems that make learning fun
• Evolve our icon and illustration language: extend the existing library and create new assets
• Bring interfaces to life with motion: craft UI and character animations that make every action feel responsive and fun

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing digital products with a portfolio showing both sharp UX thinking and a high level of craft
• Comfortable planning and running user research - interviews, surveys, and rapid tests
• Fast, iterative, and impact-focused: you know when to sweat a detail and when to ship to learn more
• Working knowledge of motion tools (After Effects, Principle, Lottie) and an eye for playful animation
• Nice to have: experience founding a company or building a significant side project that has had some real users
• Nice to have: experience designing gamified products (mobile, web, or casual games)
• Nice to have: experience designing social products
• Nice to have: hands-on illustration or icon-system design skills
• Nice to have: experience building interactive prototypes in HTML/CSS/JS or React
• Nice to have: experience creating or refining design systems

Key Skills

• UI/UX design
• User research
• Motion tools (After Effects, Principle, Lottie)
• Playful animation
• Game design
• Social product design
• Illustration or icon-system design skills
• Interactive prototyping (HTML/CSS/JS or React)
• Design systems

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Substantial equity included - you’ll own a piece of what you’re building
• Hybrid working model with 4 days in our Shoreditch office
• Private health insurance
• The opportunity to be one of the earliest employees in one of the UK’s fastest-growing startups