Senior Product Designer

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Hi there We're Stotles.

Our mission is to unlock the potential of business and government working better, together. We'd love for you to join us on our journey.

We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to join the team at Stotles

For a more detailed job description, head on over to → this Notion page ←).

About this role

Stotles is about to create a new product to meet the needs of user which we have not previously catered to before. The market is flooding with AI powered tools but we are uniquely primed to be a leader for our user base. This product will be a huge mile-stone in our journey to being the operating system for businesses and government working togethers.

You will have the opportunity to be the first designer in this newly formed stream working closely with a cross functional team of Engineers, CPO (Carsten) and Lead Designer (Phil) to shape the direction of the product.

This role will be about going from 0 to 1 and finding product market fit. Working closely with our customers to understand what matters most to them, creating prototype and delivering live functionality fast to learn and move forward.

Beyond this product stream we run in 6 week build cycles as per the shape up method. This give flexibility to all members of the product team to work on projects that energise them. Some example of past projects for a flavour of what to expect are; leveraging LLMs and our data to answer customers most prominent question in seconds, integrating with our customers external tooling and workflows, engaging and activating our free users more to support our huge growth ambitions.

What you'll do

• Lead the design of our new product stream which entails creating AI empowered solutions for our users daily pains.
• Work through the end-to-end design process for your projects from effective problem definition, through ideation, and prototyping, ending with building, releasing and learning.
• Collaborate with, customer success, growth and sales to analyse and understand target users, their context, and the competitive landscape.
• Partner with our CPO, Lead Designer and Engineering Team to create implementable designs based on a design system and component library.
• Interact with our users to validate UX/UI problems and solutions using both qualitative and quantitative methods.
• Measure the success of your decisions with the team and iterate when needed.
• Come up with features and improvements that ship quickly and with high quality.
• Use and evolve our internal design system.
• Help to grow our design team, improve processes, and participate in broader product topics and activities.

What we value

• Strong experience, estimating 5+ years, designing digital B2B SaaS products. You have been a part of shipping products that solve real problems for the people that use it.
• Can work through design problems from beginning to end transforming insights from research and analytics into concepts. Detailing the workflows, interactions and components that are required to make it a reality.
• Clear evidence of your ability to conduct your own research to inform design decisions and directions for your team and their projects.
• Ability to create polished high fidelity mockups, interactive prototype and supporting documentation so your design come to life to an equally high quality in the real world.
• A passion for figuring stuff out, sitting in the weeds and unravelling a problem. Bringing in collaborators at the right moment to move ideas forward.
• Great communication skills that help others understand your rationale and the hidden complexities of design challenges.
• Coaching and supporting other designers across the company and continuously working to improve our design processes, principles, and tooling.
• Comfort with ambiguity, with a growth mindset that has a desire to make things better. Really owning the process until the job is truly done.
• Project management abilities, we work in small squads and lean on senior team members to steer the ship to the most impactful problems and work.
• Bonus - Strong experience designing for data heavy, desktop first experiences.

Compensation: £55,000 - £75,000 with an additional options equity grant worth 15-40% of salary

❗ Your portfolio will ideally outline the above skills through your design work and past projects. It should show the process you followed, decision made and rationale behind them

Stotles data in numbers

• 8M Procurement notices from UK & EU
• 15K UK government organisations
• 90K Government policy & strategy documents
• 180K Government contacts
• 80M Invoices published by the government bodies in UK
• 1.5M Government suppliers in UK & EU

Benefits and perks

Transparent and competitively benchmarked salaries

Equity dependent on experience

A generous health cash plan (Covers dental, optical, physical therapy, consultations, etc.)

A personal health, wellness, and development allowance of £130/month to spend on gym memberships, therapy, yoga classes... any experience that keeps your mind and body healthy.

25 days vacation + bank holidays

A dedicated learning and development budget you can use for books, conferences, courses, events

Office in Central London (Farringdon)

A hybrid working environment with 1-2 days in office and flexible work-from-home opportunities

A work-from-home setup budget of £400 you can use for these items: a keyboard, monitor, mouse, office chair, desk, headphones

Monthly affectionately-termed "TeamChills™": our in-person team-bonding socials covering anything from mini-golf, to communal taco-eating and summer picnics