Senior Product Designer

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Our mission and hopefully yours too...

Birdie's home healthcare platform enabled a remarkable 30 million care visits in 2023. Through its innovative technology, Birdie is modernising home healthcare, with support from key investors. As a certified B-corp, Birdie prioritises social responsibility. Its dedicated team combines expertise in healthcare, product design, and technology to bring about meaningful changes in the industry.

Earning the 6th spot in Deloitte's Fast 50 in 2023 is a testament to our unwavering commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship. Birdie's all-in-one solution serves as an operating system for homecare businesses, empowering care providers with the tools they need to deliver exceptional care efficiently, and also facilitating better connection with the village of professionals and family also involved in each care recipient's life.

Our vision goes beyond mere efficiency. We aim to unlock the potential of preventative, personalised, and proactive home healthcare, leveraging the abundance of relevant data to shift from a broadly reactive approach to being more predictive and intelligent. Our goal is simple yet profound: to enable older adults to lead longer, healthier lives in the comfort and familiarity of their own homes.

Join us at Birdie as we continue to push the boundaries of what's possible in home healthcare. Together, let's make a meaningful difference in the lives of millions.

Your mission at Birdie

We're searching for a Senior Product Designer who is excited to make an impact on social and health care. We need somebody who can not only lead improving our products, but who also wants to help define what design can mean in an ambitious organisation.

On a day-to-day basis you will...

• Work with product managers and designers to continually refine an exciting and impactful vision for the product you will be working on
• Work closely with engineers and product managers to deliver product features that solve key problems for our customers and increase our speed of learning.
• Build prototypes and run experiments to test your hypothesis to ensure our products are continuously delighting our users
• Regularly conduct user research on a weekly frequency and be responsible for sharing our user empathy with your colleagues and the broader company.
• Contribute to our visual language and design system to ensure a consistent and beautiful branded experience across all our products.

About you

• You empathise with our user and are excited to design products that can make a real difference to the care of older adults.
• You are able to justify and clearly articulate your design decisions and strive to do so in clear and simple terms that others will understand.
• You relish the opportunity to work on ambiguous and complex problems. You get satisfaction from finding clarity within complexity.
• You check your ego at the door and are always keen to incorporate ideas from across the organisation to design products everyone can be proud of.
• You know when to advocate for quality and when to be pragmatic to get projects over the finish line and into the hands of our customers.
• You love to make design accessible and open to all, and enjoy nurturing design talent wherever you find it.

These are our ideal requirements, but we know some people are less likely to apply for the role unless they are 100% qualified. We promote a diverse, inclusive and empowering culture at Birdie, so please apply if you meet the majority of these competencies.

What are the benefits?

People are our core strength. We are social entrepreneurs, boasting an outstanding culture (employer net promotion score of 67) with strong values (B-Corp certified). We offer exceptional benefits and invest massively in our team's happiness, wellbeing and growth:

Compensation

Our salary packages are competitive, the role is £66k - £73k per annum. We also grant generous stock options to any permanent employee at the end of the probation period. We adjust salaries based on the cost of living index for employees based outside of the UK.

Location

This role will need to be based in one of the following countries; UK, Spain, Ireland, Germany or France. We organise regular in-person events and online socials to make sure you can meet up with peers. If you want to come to the offices in London or Berlin, you're most welcome of course!

Birdie cannot currently support any visa applications, we do require permanent right to work in the role's location.

L&D budget

Growth is key. You'll have an annual personal development budget to put towards books, courses, trainings and conferences; continuous coaching within the team and with external experts.

Work From Home budget

Making your workspace comfortable is important to us, you'll have access to a WFH equipment budget to ensure you have what you need.

Base holiday

33 days base holiday (25 days + 8 bank holidays)

Christmas leave

Birdie closes between Christmas and New Year so you can have some down time with your loved ones. This is in addition to your base holiday!

Birthday leave

An extra day off for your birthday (you can take this whenever you want during the year)

Birdie giving days

Birdie is a B-corp and we care deeply about social impact this means you can take 2 paid days each year for volunteering to a cause you're passionate about.

Sabbaticals

We recognise that sometimes a longer break is desired, that's why as of 2024 we have introduced a sabbatical policy. When you have been with us for 4 years you can take up to 3 months off.

Private health insurance

Comprehensive health insurance with AXA that covers many physical and mental health costs

Gym and wellbeing discounts

Gym discounts and numerous other wellbeing perks via Happl

Cycle to work scheme

Birdie will buy a bike up-front and you can salary sacrifice to pay-off over the next 12-36 months

Parental Leave

Highly favourable parental leave policy; once you have spent twelve consecutive months on our payroll, primary caregivers are entitled to 26 weeks of parental leave at 100% of your usual salary and secondary caregivers are entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave, at 100% of your usual salary.

Fertility Leave Birdie recognises the emotional and physical challenges which may arise during fertility treatments, and supports all Birdies by offering 5 additional paid days of leave.

Employer pension contribution

Birdie contributes 4% of your salary to your pension when you contribute 5% (UK Birdies)

Frequent company socials, trips and meals

We organise many socials, quarterly retreats and annual company-wide retreats

Exceptional culture

We see ourselves as social entrepreneurs shaping a new kind of organisation: caring, responsible yet fostering excellence. Read The Birdie Way to learn more.

?Why Birdie?

Join Birdie and seize this unique opportunity to shape the future of a transformative tech startup, to create positive social change, and develop yourself very fast in a flexible, close-knit & transparent organisation.

We have a grand vision to transform how society deals with ageing,we dream big and speed is of the essence.

We're all entrepreneurs at Birdie.

We're highly collaborative and iterative. Everything we do is transparent to anyone, be it objectives and key results, compensation packages and equity or strategic conversations.

Growing with trust is key. Everyone sets their own development plan and gets support to learn fast, from training to books or coaches. We live by radical candour: we give honest feedback and care deeply & personally about each other.

Join us now to improve the lives of millions!

Equal Opportunities Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and we strive to reduce unconscious bias throughout our hiring process. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.

We endeavour to embrace diversity, and promote an inclusive environment for all Birdies, and actively work towards this with our Diversity & Inclusion Committee.

If you have any questions regarding the interview process, or if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made, please don't hesitate to contact us.