Senior Product Designer, Cuvva
£65-72.5k
More information about location
1-4 days a week in office (Farringdon, London)
Short-term car insurance provider
Job no longer available
Short-term car insurance provider
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
£65-72.5k
More information about location
1-4 days a week in office (Farringdon, London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give everyone affordable access to a car with temporary care insurance.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience owning end-to-end Product Design, within a product-led environment
- Strong experience using AI tools, with enthusiasm for integrating AI into design workflows for research, prototyping & creative exploration
- A collaborative mindset, working closely with fellow Designers, Product Managers & Engineers, recognising that great design is as much about communication + teamwork as it is about craft
- Experience designing for mobile platforms (iOS & Android), with a great understanding of Apple Human Interface Guidelines &Material Design
- High proficiency in Figma, including Design Systems, prototyping & developer handoff
- A solid grasp of UX research methodologies, with the ability to synthesise qualitative data into actionable insights
- A great mindset of continuous learning, keeping up with the latest trends in UX, UI & interaction design
- If you think you have what it takes but don't meet every single point above, please still get in touch. We'd love to chat and see if you could be a great fit
Desirable
- Have worked in a startup, scaleup or design agency/product studio environment, where high-impact & quality work is measured in days/weeks, rather than months/years
- Have a working understanding of front-end development (e.g., understanding how your designs translate into code)
- Are familiar with behavioural design & gamification principles to drive engagement
- Have experience with motion design or micro-interactions to create delightful user experiences
- Have worked with design tokens & contributed to maintaining a scalable design system
- Have worked on consumer facing (B2C) products
What the job involves
- As a Senior Product Designer at Cuvva, you’ll own & shape the end-to-end design process within your product area, from problem discovery & hypothesis setting, through to prototyping & validation, to delivery, measurement & iteration
- You’ll collaborate closely with Product Managers, fellow Designers & Engineers to craft thoughtful, data-informed user experiences that balance customer needs with commercial impact
- You’ll design & prototype high-quality UI solutions, contribute to our design system & use research, analytics & experimentation to continuously improve our products
- Your work will directly influence the direction of your product area within the Cuvva platform, ensuring experiences are accessible, inclusive & built to scale
- Own the full design lifecycle for your product area, from discovery through to delivery & iteration
- Frame problems clearly, aligning on user needs, constraints & what success looks like
- Explore early solution directions through sketches, wireframes & lightweight prototypes
- Validate ideas through research & testing, iterating based on evidence + feedback
- Run post-release reviews, analysing user behaviour, qualitative feedback & key metrics to inform what to do next
- Plan & deliver iterative improvements based on insight, experimentation & changing user needs
- Work pragmatically, knowing when to move quickly on simple problems and when to go deeper on more complex ones
- Design, prototype, and document high-quality UI solutions across mobile and web, maintaining consistency and craft
- Partner closely with Engineers throughout delivery to ensure smooth handover and high-quality implementation
- Contribute to and evolve the design system as the product grows
- Use research, experimentation, and analytics to inform decisions, validate outcomes, and iterate
- Champion accessibility and inclusive design across everything you build
- Actively contribute to the Design community through critiques, feedback sessions, and knowledge sharing
- Collaborate openly with other Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to raise the quality of work and decision-making
- Promote design best practices and continuous learning across teams
Application process
- As it’s the end of year, our team will be offline over the holidays. We’ll review and process applications from Tuesday 6 January 2026, with the aim of being in touch later that week. Thanks for your patience and happy holidays
- Initial chat with People team (40 mins)
- Technical interview with Design peers & Product Leadership (90m)
- Founders chat with our CEO & Founder, Freddy (20m)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Car insurance hasn't traditionally worked around how people actually use their cars. Most policies lock drivers into annual contracts, even if they only need cover for a few hours of days. So Cuvva has set out to fill that gap with its app that lets drivers buy fully comprehensive isnurance by trhe hour, day or week. More than a million drivers have used it, and it's becoming especially popular among younger drivers who value flexibility over paperwork.
What began as a clever workaround has turned into a profitable business, as the company is backed by investors including RTP Global and Breega, allowing its to expand its product range and challenge bigger insurers. More recently, it reached profitability and then tripled adjusted profits to £12.8M in 2024, with turnover climbing to £27.4M. A huge part of that growth has come from building its own AI-powered systems in-house, which now handle the majority of customer queries and keep operating costs low.
Now Cuvva is pushing further into the mainstream through a partnership with Toyota Insurance Services Europe, bringing its short-term cover directly ot Toyota and Lexus drivers. It's a clear sign that flexible, app-based insurance is no longer just a niche alternative but something major car brands see value in and if Cuvva can keep pairing its tech-led efficiency with partnerships like this, then its on alcear path to becoming not just the UK's leading short-term insurer, but a much broader player in digital motor insurance.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2019
$20.1m
SERIES A
Jan 2017
$2m
SEED
Total funding: $23.5m
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Freddy Macnamara
(Founder & CEO)Freddy previously founded a renewable energy consultancy in Scotland.
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