Product Designer, Hectare
Maternity Cover
2-5 days a week in office (Waterloo, London)
Digital agricultural supply chain software
Job no longer available
Digital agricultural supply chain software
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
2-5 days a week in office (Waterloo, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
At Hectare, we’re united behind a single shared purpose - to reinvent trading so that farmers can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- You’re a Product Designer with experience of working within a product team or digital agency
- You’re comfortable creating application UI’s for both web and native apps. You’re able to demonstrate this via your portfolio of work
- You’re able to interpret complex problems, create and communicate simple solutions, demonstrating your thought process from initial sketches to the final visual outcome
- You have an exceptional eye for detail
- You’re a big advocate for the customer and have experience of UX practices to uncover the challenges that they face
- You’re extremely comfortable using design tools such as Figma. You’re all about Auto Layout and Variants to help power your design process
- Your communication skills are great. You can confidently talk product and engineering teams through your thought process and take onboard feedback objectively
- You’re a team player and like to collaboratively design
- You’re happy working in a hybrid role in a small but highly driven team and would be willing to spend approx 2-4 days per month working from our London office based close to Waterloo station
- Experience working as a product designer (UX/UI) in a product or agency environment
- The focus of your work has been on products with application UI’s such as dashboards, forms, reporting suites and data visualisation
- Experience working as part of a remote team is beneficial
- Experience designing across a broad range of platforms from web to native
- A good understanding of UX processes, usability and accessibility design principles
- A good working knowledge of Figma
- Bonus if you have broader design skills in print and animation
What the job involves
- We’re looking for someone to join the team in a temporary position to cover maternity leave starting in July 2023
- This will be a minimum 9 month contract
- We’re looking for someone who’s able to join the team and hit the ground running and who enjoys working in a fast paced product team. The role will be a blend of working on the Hectare product suite and supporting marketing and sales with assets
- You will report into and work with the Lead Designer and help create accessible user experiences for our agricultural customers around the world
- Working closely with the product team you will interpret briefs and customer requirements creating solutions to communicate your ideas
- Design and prototype end-to-end flows for new features and brand new products giving stakeholders and customers a feel for how the interactions might work
- Help create design components and visual systems to be used across our products
- Iterate and evolve designs based on internal stakeholder feedback and wider customer feedback
- Collaborate with different teams from design and product to engineering working alongside sprints to ensure designs are being delivered ready for engineering
- You’re a dynamic designer, able to help support our marketing and other internal teams with graphics and animated content for social and sales materials
- What Success Will Look Like:
- You will have played an active role in helping improve the user experience of all of our products
- Our customers (those working in agriculture) should find our products a delight, simple and easy to use
- Our engineering teams will be able to understand your ideas and design outcomes and be able to easily implement them due to your clear communication and handover
- You consistently deliver great design, that’s well thought out and that helps Hectare continue to innovate
Application process
- Please share a link to or attach your design portfolio - we’d love to see some of your work. If you’re not sure that you exactly fit the above criteria, get in touch anyway. Ability and attitude is just as important as experience
- The Hiring Process
- First, a phone call
- You’ll have a 20 minute chat over the phone with a member of our team so we can find out more about your experience and ambitions
- In-person interviews
- If we think you’re a good match for the role, we’ll book you in for an interview and portfolio review and there might be a small task to complete in advance
- Meet your colleagues
- There’ll also be a chance to meet some of the people you’d be working with via a video call, and ask any questions about working at Hectare
- Process complete
- That’s it! If everyone’s happy, we’ll make you an offer
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 2015 by farmers and developers, Hectare is a fast-growing agritech business. The Hectare platform now powers some of UK farming’s fastest-growing supply chains and has exciting opportunities for future growth.
Today, agricultural businesses need to supply more produce, more efficiently with less environmental impact in a world where costs are rising. Coupling that with climate change pressures with the march towards net zero in 2040 where agricultural production currently accounts for 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions, Hectare's role is to digitally engineer what is possible and to help reach that goal.
Hectare is setting out to be a UK leader in solutions to enable agricultural farm gate to factory door supply chains. Its platform powers SaaS solutions for agricultural trading as well as providing important insights for smarter, data-driven decision-making in agriculture.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
50% female employees
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"The company is at a scale up stage where there is still a lot of greenfield development and plenty to get stuck into. There is a lot of autonomy and..."
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2023
$21.8m
SERIES A
Dec 2020
$4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $32.3m
Company benefits
- Flexible hours, 35 hours a week Mon-Fri
- 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Flexibility to work a mix of working from home and Office based
- Pension
- Learnably allowance
- BUPA Dental care
- Mental health sessions
- Virtual GP appointments
- £200 WFH set-up
- Electric Car Scheme
Company values
- Put Farmers First
- Grab the Bull by the Horns
- Plough Ahead Together
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Jamie McInnes
(CEO)Previous Digital Director for AEI Electronics for 6 years.
Andrew Huxham
(Co-Founder)Dan Luff
(Co-Founder)Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Hectare
- Regardless of race, gender, background, religion, disability or sexuality, we believe that the best way to build products and services that truly help people in the agricultural sector is to build the most diverse team possible. If you want to be heard, be a part of our herd.
- Ensuring our team is diverse enough but all share the common notion of being progressive, efficient and personable is important to us. Hectare is only as good as the people in it and we believe that our whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
- We particularly welcome applications from those who are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector
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