Senior Product Designer

Applied

Location London, UK-Remote, telecommute
Salary £50,000-£64,000 PA + Options
Team Product
  • Closing: 5:49pm, 19th Jul 2021 BST

Perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Work from home option
Retirement benefits
Wellness programs
Additional parental leave
Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
Paid emergency leave
Extra holiday
Professional development
Team social events
Equipment allowance

Candidate happiness

8.89 (5499)

Job Description

About Applied

Applied is the platform for unbiased hiring. 

We’re pushing back against outdated hiring practices by rearchitecting the process and leaving CVs behind. Our product is born out of scientific research, data-driven methodologies and has a purpose: it removes flawed signifiers, mitigates systemic inequalities, and surfaces the best candidates, taking the guesswork out of hiring.

Given what we do, we’re keen to build diverse teams and offer flexible and part-time working hours. We trust people to work enough hours to do good work, at times that suit you and your team.

You can read more about us in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, TechCrunch and New Scientist and learn more about how we give Candidates useful feedback here. 

The Role

We’re changing the way hiring is done for good and need a Senior Product Designer who is curious, empathetic to user needs, and always asking questions. This person loves a problem rather than a solution and will work directly with the product and engineering teams, working with them as design partners. The Product Designer will impact how user problems are defined, approached, and eventually solved. They'll continuously work to learn more about our users and involve the rest of the team in solving user needs.

In your first 6 months at Applied you'll:

  • Make big contributions to our product. You'll be working with the product and engineering team from day one and getting stuck into our scrum process from the very start.

  • Contribute to defining the product roadmap, facilitating team workshops and working with the PM and our UX designer to identify improvements to the product and then delivering beautiful designs to implement

  • Conducts user research independently and pre-empt some research using experience. Involve everyone in a culture of research, design, and testing.

  • Deliver iterative design improvements to the product and track its performance

  • Shape our process - we love a good retro and continually inspecting and improving how we work is core to how we work as a team

About Our Product and Engineering Team 

A note about our team: we place high value on trust, communication, ambition, accountability, user & data driven decisions, and have a bias towards action and curiosity.

We’re a team who:

  • Are passionate about making high quality digital products that add real and meaningful value to people's lives

  • Can collaborate effectively, inspire those around them, and start from a position of empathy.

  • Understand the business objectives, the needs of the broader team and work with engineering and product managers to prioritise accordingly.

  • Are comfortable working in an early-stage environment, and the autonomy and uncertainty that change can bring.

Our Product Designer should:

  • Communicate clearly to the team about UX projects, prioritising design components by breaking design problems down into small batch solutions

  • Get the right balance between team workshops, user research, and creating mockups and high-res designs to solve real user needs.

  • Conducts regular user research session and impact UX changes and improvements to the UI- being plugged into what the users are feeling by setting up a relationship with / without CX

  • Translate user insights into product functionality and better experiences, looking at user needs vs requests, giving feedback on the product and whether or not user needs are being addressed

  • Facilitate workshops with the product team to turn insights into great user experiences

  • Use Qualitative and Quantitative metrics to inform your designs, working with the PM to create and test hypotheses

  • Understand and translate how human behaviour relates to users and impacts visual design and UX

You'll benefit from:

  • Equity in the business

  • Wellbeing benefit and access to Spill

  • Remote working budget 

  • Internet allowance

  • Learning & development budget

  • Involvement in other aspects of the business, from strategy, management and training, to shaping team culture

  • Being part of something that's both commercially successful and socially important

We’re working remotely first and finding better options for folks who need an office. Our general aim is to have 2 away days throughout the year so we can all meet in person at least a few times a year. 

What are the next steps?

Our process is progressive - Instead of submitting a CV, you’ll answer 4 work-related questions. Our goal is to assess your approach to a problem and better understand what knowledge and skills you have. 

If you work at Applied, you'll need to search for things, so feel free to do this during the application as it isn’t a test. 

Your answers will be anonymized, randomized and reviewed by the team. We use these scores to shortlist for interview where we will do a design session as a team, a problem solving task, a portfolio review and a reverse interview where you get to ask us questions. We also think giving feedback is incredibly valuable for candidates, so at the end of the process you'll see how well you performed during the application process.

Expected duration of this application process: 2 months.

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Removing bias from the hiring process

Applications closed Mon 19th Jul 2021

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Removing bias from the hiring process

  • Your application will be anonymously reviewed by our hiring team to ensure fairness
  • You won't need a CV to apply to this job

Applications closed Mon 19th Jul 2021