Senior Product Designer Tech Shoreditch, London, UK

We're looking for an amazing Senior Product Designer to take the user experience for charities to the next level.

At Beacon we're a growing technology startup building the best nonprofit-focused CRM in the world. We passionately believe in the power of technology to make a difference.

Chris and David, both software engineers, founded Beacon in 2017 to build a new kind of charity CRM using the latest technology and design principles.

Now hundreds of innovative charities around the world trust Beacon to run their core technology infrastructure. Animal welfare, human rights, disaster relief, cancer support - all powered by Beacon. You can see a quick demo of our product, here .

We have doing good at the core of our mission, but we're also profitable, privately owned, and our goals are for long term sustainable growth - not making a quick buck for venture capitalists.

At Beacon we take building exceptional software very seriously. In a recent survey by Fundraising magazine we were rated 4.9/5 on functionality and 5/5 on ease of use - we want to keep it that way!

We take tremendous pride in building a CRM that's easy for charities to use, and you'd be working to ensure that Beacon has a huge positive impact on charities every day.

Responsibilities

Your focus will be on designing improvements to the Beacon CRM product. You'll work directly with the Head of Product and our existing engineering team drive improvements to a sophisticated and modern web application.

You will:

• Work with the Head of Product on high-level feature and design strategy
• Work closely with our Lead Frontend Developer on best practices and standardisation across our engineering teams, including making a core contribution to the Beacon design system
• Work closely with product managers to define requirements for new features and design the user flows for those features
• Create early prototypes for research and final designs for handover to the Engineers
• Guide our developers in maintaining a consistent and accessibility-friendly experience
• Conduct regular user interviews with existing and prospective customers to better understand their needs
• Take a crucial role in the launch process of new features. You'll need to carefully review features to ensure they align with your design
• Develop a profound understanding of how charities use CRM, drawing on expertise from within the Beacon team and, of course, from our customers

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as a UX or Product Designer at a B2B SaaS company, ideally in CRM
• Strong portfolio illustrating a user research approach to design
• In-depth knowledge of Figma and component libraries (ideally MUI)
• Proactive and comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment
• Our customers are all charities - you'll get to build your career whilst having a genuinely positive impact on the world
• We'll give you 6 weeks (24 days) of holiday every year, plus bank holidays
• 6 week fully paid sabbatical every 5 years
• Taking time off is important. And we really mean it: We'll pay you a £60 bonus for every day of holiday you take
• Banded salary system so that everyone is paid the same for doing the same job, and compensation growth within the organisation is clear.
• Guaranteed pay rise to adjust for inflation every 12 months
• Beacon is climate positive (beyond carbon neutral), so your employment won't hurt the planet. Learn more
• A proper pension - we'll match 150% of your pension contributions (up to 10%)
• Private health insurance with routine dental & optical cover
• Modern parental leave policy (12 weeks at full pay, and it's the same for everyone, regardless of gender or circumstances)
• Cycle to work scheme

Working together

As a team we prefer to be together in our office (4-6 New Inn Broadway, London, EC2A 3PR) and we'd want you to join us - so this is not a remote role. We offer flexible working hours and while your usual place of work will be with us in the office, you can work home when you need to.

If you don't live in London but would be happy to relocate, we can pay up to £4,000 (tax free) to help with your relocation costs.

We passionately believe in doing our part to address the tech sector's diversity problem

We believe that in building diversity we build strength.

We encourage everyone with the required skills to apply, we consider building a diverse and representative team to be critical to our success, and we actively pursue building a more diverse team.

We have a banded salary system to ensure that nobody is paid differently for the same role. Salaries across the organisation, including executive pay, are entirely transparent.

Our parental leave policy provides for 12 weeks of full pay, and can be taken by any parent, regardless of their new parenting circumstances.

We're delighted to be certified by Bloody Good Period as a 'Bloody Good Employer', and we're working towards becoming a certified BCorp .