Senior Product Designer

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Who we are

Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards. Founded in 2017 by a team with extensive HRTech experience, Zinc is an early-stage startup rapidly growing as it redefines efficiency, transparency, and fairness in background checks.

Read more about our story here: www.zincwork.com/mission

We're a culture first company, by this we don't just mean an active calendar of both company and team organised events (which we do have ), Zinc's culture is defined by a respectful and autonomous approach to all employees, fostering support for new ideas, promoting a flexible work environment, and operating within a flat structure. While socials, lunches, and events enhance the experience, the core of Zinc's culture drives employees to embrace innovation, share successes, and feel motivated about the company's future.

We recently redefined our company values:

The pieces that make Zinc: Pragmatic, Integrity, Empathy, Collaborate, Empowered, Speed.
What The Role Is

This role is for an experienced Senior Product Designer looking to make a meaningful impact at Zinc. As a Senior Product Designer, you'll lead the design strategy, from user research to final implementation. You'll collaborate with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to build innovative solutions that not only meet the needs of our users but drive Zinc's business growth.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead Feature Research & Strategy: Lead research initiatives, including user interviews and competitive analysis, to identify opportunities and ensure designs address real user pain points while aligning with business goals.
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and Stakeholders to define and execute product designs that address both user and business needs. You'll ensure cross-functional alignment and share your insights to drive decisions.
• Drive End-to-End Design Process: Take full ownership of the design lifecycle, from ideation to delivery. Ensure that designs are scalable, user-friendly, and well integrated into Zinc's product ecosystem.
• Design with Agility: At Zinc, things move quickly. You'll need to iterate rapidly and deliver high-quality design solutions within tight timelines, balancing speed with excellence.
• Clear Communication & Stakeholder Management: Lead design presentations and workshops, providing clear and actionable design rationales. Work directly with product teams and business stakeholders to iterate on and finalise design solutions.

Requirements

Hybrid, Old Street, LDN

We appreciate the value of in person connection with colleagues and flexible working for our employees. We operate a hybrid model with 2 days a week in office, Mondays and Thursdays.

Salary - £70,000 - £80,000
You Have

• User-Centred Research Expertise: You have extensive experience in B2B environments, conductinguser research to uncover needs and pain points, ensuring that your designs directly solve real problems for users. You're skilled in leveraging qualitative and quantitative data to drive design decisions.
• Advanced Design Skills: You excel at high-fidelity UI design and have experience creating complex, intuitive, and visually engaging interfaces that align with both user needs and business goals. You are proficient in Figma, Sketch, or similar tools, and can handle everything from wireframes to final product designs.
• Experience with Design Systems: You've worked extensively with design systems and know how to create scalable, reusable design components that ensure consistency across products. You understand the importance of a unified user experience and can design within those constraints.
• Prototyping & Interaction Design: You're comfortable with prototyping and have a strong understanding of interactive design to help validate ideas early in the process. You know how to use tools like Figma or InVision to quickly iterate and test concepts.

You Are

• Pragmatic: You excel in agile environments, delivering results quickly while maintaining high standards of quality. You understand the need for flexibility and iteration, moving swiftly without sacrificing the integrity of the design.
• Empathetic: You have a deep empathy for users, always advocating for their needs while balancing technical and business constraints. You're driven by creating user-centred experiences that solve real problems.
• Autonomous: You thrive in fast-paced environments and can take full ownership of design projects. You're comfortable making independent decisions but know when to seek feedback and collaborate to improve outcome.
• Communicator & Collaborator: You can articulate complex design concepts clearly and confidently. You lead by example and are skilled at facilitating workshops, presenting your work, and are experienced collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Interview Process

Throughout the interview process, you will be assessed directly inline with the requirements above.

1. One-sided video interview with an introduction from Jess, Design Lead. (15 mins) (**Please keep an eye out for this in your junk inbox**)

2. Phone call with Bel, Talent Lead (5 minutes)

3. Interview with Joe, Senior Product Designer & Gabi, Senior Product Manager (30mins)

Zinc Preview - Pre-final stage reference's with Zinc

4. Final In-person interview with Task with Luke, CEO & Founder, Jess, Design Lead, Han, Product Designer & One of our delightful Engineers, (1 hour)

Important Notice: Our recruitment process does not involve AI-driven automated screening.

Benefits

What we offer

Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring

• 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off
• £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
• Early finish Fridays (16:00)
• Yearly company retreat
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
• Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
• Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
• Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
• Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
• Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
• Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
• Celebrated Zinc anniversaries