Product Designer, Stotles
£40-50k
+ An additional options equity grant
More information about location
1-5 days a week in office (Farringdon, London)
A platform to streamline public sector sales
Be an early applicant
A platform to streamline public sector sales
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£40-50k
+ An additional options equity grant
More information about location
1-5 days a week in office (Farringdon, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
Stotles' mission is to create a world where business and government work better, together.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of product design experience in an individual contributor role
- A portfolio of well-crafted, impactful work that solves real problems for real users
- Experience conducting user research to understand user needs and validate proposed ideas
- Ability to communicate ideas through prototypes (we use Figma but this isn’t a requirement)
- Experience working on desktop first B2B SaaS is a bonus
- Experience with an established design system is a bonus - we are currently working on our own
- Effective communicator: Sharing ideas and presenting your work - both with other designers but also across the business. Able to provide the right level of context to solicit the input that you require
- Great at working with others, great at managing your time: As we’re a small team working on ambitious goals, effective teamwork is crucial. At the same time we expect everyone to manage their workload efficiently
- Focused on impact, not output: Always focused on the customer and business impact of what we’re building
- Ambitious curiosity: Eager to learn new skills and technologies outside of your comfort zone, take ever more challenging tasks, and grow into a lead designer at Stotles
- Dependability & detail-oriented: Trusted to deliver on the commitments you make to the team, from the big picture results to the nuanced details
What the job involves
- You will own the end-to-end design process for your projects from effective problem definition, through ideation and prototyping, ending with user-validated high-fidelity designs
- As you progress you will begin to own more of the vision for an area of the product and learn how to bring identified user needs and business goals to drive impactful design work
- Work with a small cross-functional team made up of a designer, product manager and engineers to define, craft and ship products that solves meaningful problems for our users
- Interact with our customers to understand their problems deeply and test solutions using both qualitative and quantitative methods
- Work closely with engineers and other partners to ensure a high-quality implementation
- Collaborate with customer success, growth and sales to analyse and understand target users; their context, and the competitive landscape
- Measure the success of your decisions with the team and iterate when needed
- Come up with features and improvements that ship quickly and with high quality
- Help to grow our design team, improve processes, and participate in broader product topics and activities
- Contribute to our evolving design system - still early doors and lots to get involved with!
Application process
- Portfolio Submission
- Submit your portfolio via the application form for our recruiting team to review
- Intro call | 15 - 20 minutes This is an informal chat so you can learn more about the company and the role and you can tell us more about yourself - your experience and what you want to achieve in the next role
- Portfolio Review | 30 - 45 minutes
- This will be an interview with our Lead Designer and CPO to walk through your portfolio, past experience and design process. Please be prepared with a relevant project our two to talk to. This does not need to be a polished portfolio, current live projects are welcome!
- Virtual Whiteboard Session | 1.5hrs With our Lead Product Designer and CPO we will go through an app critique process as well as a brainstorming session. This is a collaborative session so we can all get a feel for how we would work together day to day
- Culture and Fit Interviews | 1 hour
- This will be where candidates have an opportunity to talk about their motivations within Stotles. It’s an opportunity to meet with our leaders and learn more about our culture
- 💡Note: The most important thing is that we get to know each other, so we may tweak the process candidate-to-candidate. Regardless we will always get back to you within 48hrs of each stage
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Stotles is aiming to break down the barriers to government contracting, so more firms can compete for public sector contracts, not just those with the right contacts.
They do this by using lots of government data to identify business opportunities in the public sector, and match them with the companies on their platform. The platform, which gets its name from Aristotle, enables suppliers to follow indicators, track potential contract renewals, monitor buyers, and monitor competitors.
The founders have been at the intersection of public and private sectors, at firms such as the World Economic Forum, Boston Consulting Group, and Bloomberg. They have experienced the pain of bidding for public work beforehand, which gave them the idea.
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Employee endorsements
Nice people
"I've worked in several startups before and Stotles is the nicest bunch thus far! Given our size, and how closely we work together..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2022
$6.6m
SEED
Jan 2022
$0.5m
GRANT
Total funding: $8.7m
Company benefits
- Equity options dependent on experience
- A personal health, wellness, and development allowance of £130/month to spend on gym memberships, therapy, yoga classes... any experience that keeps your mind and body healthy.
- A dedicated learning and development budget you can use for books, conferences, courses, events
- Monthly affectionately-termed "TeamChills™️": our in-person team-bonding socials covering anything from mini-golf, to communal taco-eating and summer picnics
- A work-from-home setup budget of £400 you can use for these items: a keyboard, monitor, mouse, office chair, desk, headphones
- A generous health cash plan (Covers dental, optical, physical therapy, consultations, etc.)
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- A hybrid working environment with 1-2 days in office and flexible work-from-home opportunities
Company values
- Be ambitious: you think beyond yourself and your role, you always opt for optimism, and curiosity is your middle name.
- Build trust: you share your success with the team, you embrace and learn from failures, and you default to communicating with transparency.
- Drive impact: you bias towards action and take the initiative, you own your outcomes, and you speak up with bright ideas
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Carsten Schaltz
(CPO)Previously worked in Product at DueDil. Prior to that, worked as a Consultant at BCG. Also has an MBA from LBS
Taj Kamranpour
(COO)Serial entrepreneur and ex Fat Llama, Kinross, WINETA. Also has an MBA from LBS
John Witt
(CEO)Previously Consultant for the World Economic Forum and Founder of Finclusive, a start-up connecting a network of financial-service professionals seeking opportunities for pro-bono work with individuals & families seeking no-cost personal finance tools & education. Also has an MBA from LBS
People progressing
Joined Stotles in 2022 as a Growth Associate, and has since been promoted to Growth Marketing Manager in early 2024.
Joined Stotles as a Customer Success Manager in November 2022, and was promoted to Senior Customer Success Manager in January 2024.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Stotles
John Witt (CEO)
- ED&I is both important *and* urgent — in the short-term and long-term. It must not take a back seat.
- The phrase "Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion" (ED&I) refers to our initiative to create a well-rounded workforce and an environment where everyone has the opportunity to be the best version of themselves - no matter who we are, where we're from, or what we look like
- How we define equality: We view equality as the fairness of opportunity to contribute to the mission of Stotles - regardless of traits and characteristics of a person.
- How we define diversity: We view diversity as the traits and characteristics that make people unique. Gender, race, ethnicity, age, origin, religion, sexual orientation, and disability are some examples of how we are diverse at Stotles. We also consider diversity as differences in experiences and ways of thinking. Sometimes we can see things that make us diverse and sometimes we can't.
- We view inclusion as the behaviors, processes, systems, and norms that ensure all unique people feel welcome, and feel ownership of our mission, regardless of their background
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