Senior Product Designer
Hello, we’re Farewill and we’re out to change the way the world deals with death. We build the best products in the world for dealing with it - making death simpler, friendlier and more meaningful for everyone.
We’re currently looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our passionate, diverse, and ambitious design team to help us on that mission.
About Farewill
Since starting Farewill in 2016, we’ve launched three products, built a phenomenal team and culture we’re proud of, and helped tens of thousands of families to deal with death.
In the last 18 months we’ve:
- Grown the team from 70 to 140
- Hit 9,000 reviews on Trustpilot at 4.9/5
- Raised our £20m Series B, led by Highland Europe
- Grown revenue 6x
- Hit £300m pledged for charity (through gifts in wills)
- Won some great national awards
- Best Employer - UK Fintech Awards
- 100 Best Companies to Work For - The Times
- Economic Innovator of the Year - Spectator
- Consumer Business of the Year - GBA
- Will Writer of the Year - BWPA
About the role
Designing at Farewill presents an incredible and unique opportunity to make a meaningful difference as people deal with some of the hardest things in life.
Over the next 12 months you will:
- Join a committed cross-functional team and be responsible for design end-to-end working collaboratively with researchers, content designers, product managers, and engineers to define and solve high impact problems
- Gain deep domain understanding on the problems we're tackling through working with your team and understanding our customer needs
- Embrace experimentation by testing ideas and shipping features to learn from and iterate on them with your team to achieve better outcomes
- Be an active member of our design guild, helping raise the standards of the design discipline at Farewill as well as helping each other grow and develop as designers (You can meet some of our team on our blog.
Requirements
The must-haves - someone with experience of:
- Working as an individual contributor across a broad range of design techniques, from running workshops to visual design execution
- Leading design end-to-end in a product team and shipping products in collaboration with PMs and engineers
- Championing customer needs and helping teams get to great outcomes
- Working with other designers, researchers, and content designers as part of a wider design team
- Communicating and articulating design decisions effectively, both to their team and to stakeholders
- Working in a fast paced environment, iterating to changing needs and prioritising what to work on effectively
And nice to haves - someone with:
- Experience working either on discovery and new product development or growth on an existing product
- Experience at a fast growing startup
- An interest in mentoring and supporting junior designers
- A passion for inclusive design
If this sounds like it matches your experience and what you’d love to do, please apply! If you’re unsure whether you fit our criteria exactly, please get in touch anyway. We care just as much about capability and attitude.
Benefits
What we offer:
- Competitive salary and generous stock options. To keep things fair, we make offers based on our salary bands. For this role, we’re likely to offer between £70,000 - £85,000 based on where you fit in.
- 28 days of annual leave plus the usual public holidays
- Flexible working including when you start & end your day, and how often you come into the office*
- Personal development budget of 3 days and £1000 per year
- Regular ‘passion talks’ and a range of team socials
- Santander cycles membership
- A chance to make a meaningful contribution to people's lives and deaths
- And much more!
*Currently our lovely office in Haggerston is available if people want — and only if they want. Previously, we had work from home Wednesdays, however, our current plan is to move to a mix of office-based and remote working.
The process:
We know how time-consuming it can be to juggle design interviews with a full-time job and life commitments. Therefore, we are not asking candidates to complete a challenge or do a take-home task. All you need to do is apply; we'll talk about the role, your experience, your work, and figure out if we're a good match for each other.
Here’s what the steps look like:
- Meet with our people team for a first chat
- Meet Utku, our Head of Design to talk about your experience and find out more about the role and Farewill
- Meet with members of the design team and talk through your work
- Have a final chat to answer any remaining questions you or we might have
- Join the team, change the way the world deals with death
At Farewill, our mission is to change the way the world deals with death - to make it simple, personal, fairly-priced & accessible to everyone.
To do that, we want to build a workplace that’s great for everyone, that celebrates diversity in all its forms, and where everyone who works for us feels like they can be themselves, bring their whole selves to work, and be treated fairly, equitably and respectfully.
We believe flexibility is important, so we’re happy to chat to you about flexible/remote working options. And if you need any flexibility or adjustments in our interview process - to help set you up for success - then please let us know too.
Thank you for reading and we can’t wait to hear from you!