Brand Designer, Beam
£50-65k
+ equity
Reinventing welfare services with Tech & AI
Job no longer available
Reinventing welfare services with Tech & AI
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
£50-65k
+ equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give everyone access to human-centred welfare services.
Role
Who you are
- Someone with real taste: your portfolio shows judgement and instinct for what good looks like
- Energised by variety: in-house design means a huge spread of requests. You find that exciting, not draining
- A self-starter: comfortable working with ambiguity and filling gaps with good judgement rather than needing everything spelled out
- Low-ego and resilient: feedback doesn't rattle you, and you don't take creative pushback personally
- Warm and collaborative: people across sales, marketing, and leadership want you in their projects, and know you'll make their work better
- 1-2 years as an in-house or agency designer
- A portfolio you're proud of, showing strong creative instincts (experience is nice, but taste matters more to us)
- Genuine enthusiasm for B2B/tech-adjacent brand work, within professional constraints
- Animation experience is ideal, but we’re open to your learning this on the job
What the job involves
- Your role is to be the creative eyes and hands of Beam. You’ll be the person who makes sure everything we put in front of the world, from a sales deck to an event booth to a scroll-stopping video, looks as good as our mission deserves
- You'll be our sole in-house brand designer, which means huge variety and huge ownership from day one
- One day you're designing a booth for a conference, the next you're helping a salesperson's deck look sharp before a big pitch, the next you're learning a new tool because a video project needs it
- If you love range, and you love being the person people come to when something needs to look brilliant, this is the role
- Designing across a huge range of formats: Presentations, web pages, event materials, merch, print, video and animation
- Taking loose briefs and making them brilliant: People across the business will come to you with vague requests. You’ll ask the right questions, fill the gaps with good judgement, and deliver something better than what was asked for
- Championing the brand everywhere: You'll have your eyes open across the whole company, spotting inconsistencies wherever they crop up and jumping in to help
- Iterating without ego: Sometimes feedback will just be ‘this isn't quite it.’ You'll take that in your stride and come back with fresh directions
- Growing your own skillset: When you hit something you don't know how to do yet, you'll tell us, and we'll help you learn it
Our take
Trusted by over 100 government partners, Beam is a social enterprise that brings AI to welfare services. Enabled by tech and AI, their caseworkers have supported thousands of underserved people into homes and jobs, whilst their software has slashed admin for thousands of frontline workers across the UK.
Beam is funded by established names in the UK tech scene, the world's top impact funds and the Mayor of London. Founder and CEO, Alex Stephany, brings a track record from his previous startup backed by Index Ventures and was even named Purpose Entrepreneur of the Year 2024. The rest of Beam's senior team has their own wealth of experience from a variety of leading startups, tech, and social impact businesses like Arm, Multiverse, and GoCardless.
Beam has also won multiple awards, including a Queen's Award - one of the UK's most prestigious business awards - and has twice been voted as one of the top 100 places to work in the UK. Their work has been covered widely in the media, with features from the BBC, The Times, FT, Forbes and The Independent.
AI has the potential to be a game changer for social workers and in a recent pilot, Beam's AI tool, Magic Notes, reduced the time spend on administrative tasks by over 60% and cut assessment write-ups from four hours to just 90 minutes. As councils explore next steps, Beam's technology is already redefining how frontline workers deliver care, so they can spend more time on what matters most.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
5 people
Rachel Astall, CCO
Our mission
Our 5-person C-Suite brings together leaders from tech, care work and AI - bringing a wealth of diverse experience.Insights
61% female employees
61% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (3.9)
Company
Company benefits
- Share options: Be a Beam owner with EMI-qualifying share options
- Access to therapy, coaching, classes & content - powered by Oliva
- 1:1 workplace coaching with Oliva
- Your own financial well-being coach, through Bippit
- Generous Holiday - 25 days with 3 additional days over the Christmas period + bank holidays
- Work remotely up to 6 weeks a year
- Eligible for a 6-week sabbatical after 3 years in service
- Nursery scheme through Gogeta
- Healthcare cover through Benenden Health
- Enhanced parental leave: Primary Caregiver leave 18 weeks and Secondary Caregiver leave 4 weeks
- £200 WellBeam budget for activities enhancing wellbeing and professional development
- Annual membership to Shoreditch Exchange gym (London office only)
- Pension scheme where we contribute 4% of your salary and you contribute 5%.
- Free subscription to the Calm meditation app
- Discounted bike and accessories with Cyclescheme, and tech products with Techscheme
Company values
- Mission first: We drive the mission for those we serve with heart, grit and zero ego
- Aim high and deliver: We deliver outsized impact through setting and executing against ambitious targets
- Raise the pace: We move with urgency and accelerate others, without compromising excellence
- Get better together: Everything is a work in progress. We constantly work on improving ourselves and Beam
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Alex Stephany
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously CEO of JustPark, a leading online marketplace for parking with over 4M customers backed by Index Ventures. Expert on the sharing economy and author of The Business of Sharing (Macmillan).
Seb Barker
(Co-Founder & COO)Helped pioneer personalised healthcare for the NHS. Worked on the world's first social impact bond in homelessness.
People progressing
Ryan joined in 2020 as an Operations Executive. Since then, they have held a number of roles and are now the Head of Operations.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Beam
- We work hard to build teams that are diverse in every way.
- We’re committed to creating inclusive hiring processes which allow people with diverse backgrounds to showcase their talents
- We particular encourage applications from those who are underrepresented in startups: those from black and underrepresented ethnic groups and people with lived experience of homelessness/social disadvantage
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