UX Designer, Kaluza
6 Month FTC
£75-95k
+ Discretionary annual bonus
1+ day a week in office
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
Posted today
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
501-1000 employees
Posted today
£75-95k
+ Discretionary annual bonus
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help decarbonise the world.
Role
Who you are
- Deep expertise in Figma and systems thinking. You have proven experience not just using, but creating and maintaining design systems, playbooks, and frameworks, ensuring quality is kept to a high standard
- A love for hands-on UI design, paired with a visionary mindset. You are a master practitioner at heart, but you go beyond execution. You have clear, well-formed opinions and are unafraid to make bold, challenging suggestions that push our design craft forward
- A portfolio that demonstrates strategic and commercial impact. You can show how you've transformed complex technical systems (like IoT or data platforms) into simple, elegant experiences. Crucially, your work demonstrates a clear understanding of how UX differentiates a product from its competitors and helps achieve commercial goals, such as winning new clients
- A pragmatic and data-informed approach to leadership. You don't just use insights; you ensure both qualitative findings and analytics (we use Mixpanel) are actionable, impactful, and used to validate design decisions
- Exceptional relationship-building and leadership skills. You are adept at bringing people along the journey to foster collaboration and ensure knowledge-sharing. You lead through influence, proactively communicating with your teams and the Head of UX about the resources, capabilities, or trade-offs needed to achieve objectives and align every decision with the existing Kaluza wide UX strategy
What the job involves
- We’re building the future, and we need a design leader to deliver the blueprint. You’d be joining at the most exciting moment possible, as we take our revolutionary Home Energy Management System (HEMS) product from Alpha to its first public launch in Australia
- Imagine empowering customers to seamlessly control their electric vehicles, solar, and home batteries from one place. Picture them effortlessly maximising their clean energy usage. Envision the ground-breaking new services you’ll help create. That’s the world you’ll be designing
- You’ll be taking over the lead of a global effort, working hand-in-glove with our team in Australia. As we rapidly develop new features for launch, there will be a high volume of UI work as you onboard. For this reason, as much as we value discovery; we’re looking for an influential hands-on design lead who can ship superb work while mentoring others through expertise and example
- Establishing the design playbook of home energy. You will move beyond conventional design patterns to define how users interact with a complex ecosystem of smart devices. This involves championing behavioural design, spotting emerging patterns in our global pilots, and using a mix of qualitative and quantitative data to decide which interactions become our standard
- Act as the storyteller for the Home Energy Management System (HEMS) experience. You’ll build momentum and a shared vision. We expect you to have a proven history of proactively "roadshowing" your work—from early concepts to polished demos—across product, engineering, and commercial teams to build alignment and excitement for bold design directions
- Translate complexity into simple, trust-building products. The core of this challenge is designing for two audiences at once: tech-savvy early adopters and users who are new to home electrification. You’ll need a gift for making intricate energy optimisations feel effortless and intuitive, building user confidence and trust in the technology at every step
- Mentor and elevate the craft of your peers. As a design lead, you will be a force multiplier for the wider UX team. You will foster a culture of excellence by leading thoughtful design critiques, facilitating co-design workshops, pushing us to improve and setting a high bar for quality and strategic thinking with your own work
- Reporting To: Lead Designer
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The energy landscape is one of the most dynamic and fast-evolving sectors in the world. More and more energy retailers are looking to move further toward digitisation and reap the benefits of modern technology in an increasingly connected world. But many are struggling with the transition, held back by legacy operating systems which slow them down, drain resources, and hamper innovation.
This is where Kaluza comes in. An ecosystem of platforms whose services range from energy billing to smart electric vehicle charging, Its real-time cloud platforms transform supplier operations, reducing the cost to serve and boosting customer engagement. Essentially, its platform is aimed at helping businesses streamline their operations, saving them time, effort, and money which can be better invested elsewhere.
Kaluza is riding the momentum of a growing desire for sustainable business and services. Its program relating to electric car charging, for example, will be able to capitalise on huge new demand in that sector - over 100,000 electric cars are already on the roads in the UK, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance has predicted that electric cars will account for over 50% of new global car sales by 2040. As the globe moves further towards sustainable use of energy in the coming years, Kaluza could be very well positioned to capitalise.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Progressive leave policies - including leave dedicated to the moments that matter to you the most
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
- Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
- 26 days holiday
- Kaluza Share Scheme
Company HQ
Kensington, London, UK
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Leadership
Melissa Gander
(CEO)Initially joined Kaluza as COO before becoming CEO in 2024. Previously worked at OVO Energy in a number of roles, including Managing Director of Smart Metering and Group COO. Prior to that, they worked at INEXUS as a Process and Performance Analyst and a Customer Manager.
People progressing
Joined as Senior Technical Product Manager in 2017, promoted after 2 years to Head of Product, promoted again in 2024 to their current position as Director of Product.
Joined Kaluza in 2020 as a Software Engineer, and in less than 2 years was promoted to Software Engineering Manager and again promoted in 2023 to Senior Software Engineer.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Kaluza
- We are developing an dedicated Early Talent programme with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business
- Our applicant tracking system, Greenhouse, also anonymously tracks the diversity of each candidate pipeline, so we can proactively take action when a pipeline needs to be more diverse
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused diversity job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within Kaluza and the wider community
- Within Kaluza we have belonging communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- We run monthly Inclusive Hiring Skills & Bias training that are open to all Kaluza employees
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