Senior Product Designer, Beacon
£75k
4 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
A modern CRM for charities
Open for applications
A modern CRM for charities
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£75k
4 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To transform how charities work.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Superb communication skills. You need to be able to communicate effectively across Beacon’s engineering team, product team, customers and our partners.
What the job involves
- 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
Application process
- Introductory phone call with Head of Product
- 1 hour remote first stage interview
- 3 hour in-person final stage interview
Salary benchmarks
Our take
As nonprofits and charities often struggle to keep up with the level of innovation in the enterprise world, Beacon offers a cloud-based, data-driven CRM that lets them manage donations, fundraisers, payments, events & ticketing, marketing campaigns, and volunteers all in one place.
The last few years has seen an increase in the developments in the Charity CRM space. Companies like Salesforce have rolled out major upgrades to its non-profit cloud, while platform-to-platform integrations are also becoming more common. Further to that point, Beacon is one company that’s recently integrated with JustGiving.
The company has grown steadily in popularity since its 2017 inception, picking up well-respected clients like The New Humanitarian, The Jacobs Foundation, and Cruse Bereavement Care.
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Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"There's always something new to do - clients have increasingly complex needs, and there's never an attitude of 'We can't do that' - but instead..."
Company benefits
- Our customers are all charities - you'll get to build your career whilst having a genuinely positive impact on the world
- Four day work week. Our working model gives everyone a 3 day weekend, every week
- We'll give you 6 weeks (24 days) of holiday every year, plus bank holidays
- 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 your growth within the organisation is clear
- 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
- Sabbatical every 5 years (6 weeks off, fully paid)
Company values
- Social good
- Sustainable growth
- Partnership
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
David Simpson
(CTO)Former Head of Product at IT Infrastructure company Tray.io, former Senior Researcher at domain name registry Nominet.
Chris Houghton
(CEO)Former Head of Partner Success at Tray.io, co-founder and former CTO at e-commerce marketing platform, Sauce Apps.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Beacon
- 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 passionately believe in doing our part to fix the tech sector's diversity problem and that in building diversity we build strength
- 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 are actively working to demonstrate our commitment to our values by completing Bloody Good Period’s ‘Bloody Good Employer’ certification and working towards becoming a certified BCorp.
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