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Product Designer - Editor

Pencil Remote (🇬🇧 United Kingdom)

Remote $100,000 - $150,000 Full-time Senior

You will own the end-to-end design of the core editing platform, from strategy and problem framing to shipping production-ready UI. You will partner with engineering and product teams to rapidly iterate on AI-powered features that enhance user creation workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Own a core area of the Pencil editing platform end-to-end, from problem framing and concept exploration to final UI and shipped product
  • Partner closely with Product and Engineering to define and rapidly ship features that directly increase content generations and exports
  • Design high-quality, production-ready interfaces for editing tools, relentlessly focused on improving speed and usability so users can create assets faster
  • Expand the suite of creation tools across multiple formats (ads, images, video, email, display, etc.)
  • Design and improve AI-powered editing workflows that feel clear, usable, and trustworthy, directly augmenting the user's creative output
  • Ensure design intent is fully translated into development by working closely with engineers during implementation, reviewing builds, and iterating until the quality bar is met
  • Conduct user research to identify meaningful problems, validate solutions, and continuously raise usability and clarity across the product
  • Use and contribute to our design system, helping evolve patterns, components, and foundations as the product scales

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience designing digital products, ideally within SaaS or complex, workflow-driven editing and creation tools
  • A strong portfolio that demonstrates end-to-end product thinking with a focus on speed, creation, and impact on output
  • Builder mindset with a deep obsession for creating tools that help users produce content faster
  • Deep craft sensibility and solid interaction and visual design skills to make creation tools feel powerful but simple
  • Proven ability to work autonomously and demonstrate strong product intuition, knowing what features will increase generations and exports without over-researching
  • High iteration tolerance and comfort with a "build and see what sticks" mode, happy to test, tweak, and evolve features rapidly based on usage
  • Strong experience working closely with engineers and a proven ability to keep up with a large, fast-moving engineering team
  • Highly proficient in Figma, using it fluently to explore ideas, communicate intent, and evolve design systems
  • AI curiosity and comfort designing for AI-powered systems, interested in how AI augments creation and integrates into editing workflows

Benefits

  • 25 days PTO plus public holidays
  • Health insurance / private medical cover
  • Monthly stipend towards wellness, fitness, and learning and development
  • Remote - work from anywhere in your home country
  • Enhanced parental leave policies, whether you become a parent through birth, adoption or surrogacy
  • Access to our Pencil office in The Shard, London for UK employees
  • Flexible working hours

Key Skills

Product design UX design UI design Interaction design Visual design Figma Design systems AI-powered systems Editing workflows Content creation User research Prototyping Wireframing User flows High-fidelity mockups Cross-functional collaboration Communication Problem-solving Iteration Agile methodology Scrum Design thinking User-centered design

About Pencil

Pencil is Marketing's AI Operating System. We help enterprise brands aggregate AI models, enforce governance, and scale creative and media, safely. From insight to production to distribution, we unify the entire marketing workflow in one platform. Most enterprise teams are stuck in pilot purgatory, testing AI tools that never scale, stitching together fragmented workflows, and watching budgets disappear into non-working spend. We built Pencil to end that. We aggregate the best AI models from every provider –OpenAI, Google, Adobe, and more– into a single governed platform. This is what we call the Open Garden: you're never locked into one vendor's roadmap. You get the best model for every use case, today and tomorrow. Our platform unifies the entire marketing workflow –from insight and creative concept through production, governance, and media distribution. Enterprise teams can design, orchestrate, and scale creative systems that hold up in production, across markets and language

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