Senior Product Designer

Job Description

We are seeking a second product designer to own the design work for new features and improve existing UI/UX. The salary range for this role is competitive and based on experience. In this position, you will report to the Head of Design.
We respond to applications within a week and provide feedback at each stage of the process, which is outlined at the bottom.
Why join us now?
This is now the best time to join V7. you’d be joining a team that has found its groove and is excited about scaling. Design plays a critical role at V7. As our 2nd product designer you’ll have a huge part in shaping our product direction. Making sure our product design and branding are both highly functional and elegantly minimalistic.
We’re currently at an exciting stage. Big enough to give you stability and an incredible work environment. Small enough to shape our design system, culture and processes.
Our customers (read case studies here) find a lot of value in what we offer, and we have a lot of ideas on what else we can build to make UX easier, more engaging, and more elegant.
We’re all generalists, constantly taking on new challenges, which means you’ll engage with a wide range of design tasks. Occasionally, you’ll be able to contribute to our overall brand through exciting projects such as keynotes, 1-minute video ads, or web design.
Requirements

4+ years of full-time product design experience at a SaaS startup.
A portfolio of exceptional product designs shipped within a fast-paced environment.
Excellent visual, UI, and interaction skills.
Experience designing complex product workflows, ideally B2B, from ideation to high-fidelity mocks, and take a system-centric approach to design (think and work with components).
Good written and verbal communication skills to articulate the reasoning behind your designs.
Ability to translate insights from product analytics (Posthog) or user interviews into concepts.
Proficient in Figma and Framer.

Day-to-day:

Work through design problems from beginning to end. Ideate and design features and improvements rapidly while maintaining high quality.
Create flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals for your features.
Work closely with engineers and other stakeholders to ensure a high-quality implementation.
Keep our design system in perfect shape.
Partner with product managers to define and evolve product roadmaps.
Collaborate with other designers, take part in weekly critiques and help us continuously raise the quality bar by improving our design processes, principles, and tooling.

What’s in it for you:

Top 15% quartile equity options plan through an EMI scheme
Private Healthcare via Vitality for our UK employees, or equivalent allowance outside of UK
Pension contribution through Nest
£800 Learning and Development budget
Apple MacBook suitable for your role
Monthly wellbeing and mental health budget via ThanksBen
Personalised benefits platform via Thanks Ben
Enhanced Parental Leave
30 days holiday, plus an additional day for every year of service with V7, plus Bank Holidays on top
4-day company-wide and 4 day departmental retreats in stunning locations
Hybrid working with flexibility, role dependent
Temporary work from anywhere for one month in the calendar year
Paid tickets, accommodation, and travel to relevant conferences, nationally or internationally (NeurIPS, ICCV, CVPR, …) to expand your network & knowledge during normal times

The process:
Each person that joins our team leaves a major impact on our product, culture, and trajectory, so we want to be sure this addition is right for both parties!

Introductory chat (30 minutes) Here you can ask any questions you have for us and begin to get to know each a bit. The goal is to assess chemistry and communication.
Portfolio deep dive (45 minutes)
Take home assignment We will work together on a small design exercise to help us really assess what it’s like to work together. This is likely to take 4 hours over ~1 week
Final interview + white-boarding activity (60 minutes) You’ll present your design solutions from the take home assignment and we’ll collaborate over a small design exercise so you can see whether it’d be fun to collaborate with us.
Offer