Product Designer, Phorest
Maternity Cover Contract
+ Employee Share Purchase Scheme
Office located in Anglesea Mills, Dublin
Salon management solution
Posted today
Salon management solution
201-500 employees
Posted today
+ Employee Share Purchase Scheme
Office located in Anglesea Mills, Dublin
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower and inspire salon, spa and clinic owners to grow fantastic businesses while attracting and delighting loyal clients and talented staff.
Role
Who you are
- At least 3 years experience in a product design role
- Understanding the complexity behind design decisions and being able to communicate with internal and external stakeholders and engineering teams effectively
- A good grasp of web technologies and their abilities - you don’t need to be able to ship code but understanding how your designs are put into clients hands helps to uncover the opportunities and limitations we have
- Fluent English is essential
- The ability to work closely with Product Managers and Developers to get to the heart of the problems we’re trying to tackle
- A strong understanding of information architecture, user experience, interaction, and visual design for both web and mobile
- A well-defined visual design taste and a strong attention to detail
- Experience designing for multiple platforms and screen sizes, using Figma to bring your ideas to life through prototyping and storytelling
- A can-do attitude with a growth mindset and eagerness to learn
- The ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment with a high degree of autonomy
- Having worked in the hair and beauty industry or helped to develop marketing software solutions is a plus. 💅
What the job involves
- Mid-level product designer position available on the team responsible for creating marketing features
- You will play a critical role in shaping the future of salon marketing solutions
- You will be part of an autonomous team alongside a product manager, engineering manager and a dedicated engineering team
- Partner with product managers to define and evolve product roadmaps
- Work closely with engineers as you build, iterate on, and ship ideas
- Join a small group of skilled product designers in building exciting features
- Help evolve design systems and have a big impact on product vision
- You will have hands-on experience working in a product engineering environment, working closely with an engineering team to ensure what was shipped is meeting customer needs.
- You will be designing new features from the initial discovery phase to shipping and iterating on feedback
- Challenge assumptions. While Phorest has a wealth of industry experience to tap into, with fresh eyes you will still want to validate ideas with our customers, many of which are right on our doorstep, or accessible through our very active community
- In your team you will be responsible for championing design and how your ideas or solutions address the needs of our clients.
- Through prototyping and talking to clients, you will have a real impact on determining the product roadmap via testing ideas and assumptions. Meeting and talking to clients on a regular basis
- Bonus: We would love to find someone with previous experience working on or with marketing software. Having an understanding of marketing best practice and what salons are trying to achieve using our solutions
- You’re comfortable talking to customers, testing prototypes, and iterating on designs until you’re confident customers will be happy with your solutions
Our take
Annually, significant financial losses plague salons and health spas due to both no-show appointments and sluggish periods. Addressing this predicament head-on, Phorest emerges as the solution, providing salon proprietors with user-friendly marketing software.
Phorest's software allows salons to dispatch appointment reminders and promotional details to their clientele. This seemingly uncomplicated remedy remarkably curtails no-show deficits by an impressive 70% - an extremely valuable offering.
From its inception, Phorest has consistently evolved and broadened its platform, adding features for staffing management, inventory control and strategic marketing. It has also secured funding which has enabled it to confidently vie with international contenders like Zenoti and Booker on the global stage.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2022
$12m
LATE VC
Jun 2018
$20.9m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $34.3m
Company benefits
- Your wellbeing is important to us - We provide private healthcare, and employee assistance program and a free online GP service (WebDoc)
- As part of our Financial Wellbeing, we provide an Employee Share Purchase Scheme, Pension, Life Assurance, and Income Protection
- We help you travel by providing a bike to work scheme as well as tax saver transport tickets
- We care for your family and provide Enhanced Maternity and Paternity benefits
- We grow our own timber! We provide a great learning environment including an extensive onboarding program
- Career development is important to us. We even have our own in-house Learning and Development/Business coach and many online resources including LinkedIn learning
- We don't believe in formal dress codes. We prefer causal things
Company values
- Growth Mindset: We are all about growth - when it comes to ourselves, our company & our clients
- Seirbhís Go Hiontach: Irish for 'excellence in service' or 'service without measure'
- Can-Do Attitude: We are dynamic and have a bias for action
Company HQ
North City, Dublin, Ireland
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Leadership
Ronan Perceval
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked in hair salons, and also co-founded Demonware.
Jamie Myerscough
(Co-Founder & Director)Previously served as Phorest's CEO and Sales Director. Is currently CEO of Educogym.
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