Product Designer, Pugpig
2+ days a week in office
Digital publishing platform
Job no longer available
Digital publishing platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
2+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To power the publishing platforms that will help secure that future.
Role
Who you are
- You’re interested in publishing and like engaging with content
- You have 2-5 years’ experience working as a product designer, and have examples where your work has made a difference in the real world
- You’re happy working in a very busy, buzzy environment and are adept at juggling multiple priorities at a time
- You’ve got experience dealing directly with developers and have enough technical understanding to (within reason) predict and understand problems they might face
- You’re driven and self-motivated, with a desire to be the go-to person for design and UX
- You have a desire to learn continuously, pick up new skills and get to know new technologies
What the job involves
- Be there from the very beginning of discussions around new features or improvements and championing design throughout the process
- Provide design specifications, resources and guidance to the development team to help bring features and other changes to fruition
- Engaging with our testing processes to ensure what we ship looks as a good as it should
- Talking to highly-engaged customers and seeking to understand their goals, and working to align that with our product capabilities
- Identifying existing issues or potential improvements, suggesting solutions, and arguing for their prioritisation
- Making sure accessibility is explicitly included in our decision making and design, and that our products exhibit a high standard of useability
- Engage with users to understand their experience of using our products and use this information to grow and improve them
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Pugpig was founded in response to the lack of a decent mobile publishing platforms. It addressed this gap by creating a system which was fully native - iOS and Android - and could also use the power of HTML and structured content: both of which had never been used for content delivery on mobile.
Through this, Pugpig aims to help publishers shape the future of the industry and bring it up-to-date. By working closely with customers to conceive, adapt, customise, and run its platforms, Pugpig allows clients to focus on their core business.
Users can publish their content widely with minimal effort, with Pugpig taking care of the technology so that publishers can focus on the content, while offering plenty of ways to monetise content, such as through membership, subscriptions, sponsorship, or advertising. It does this with its three products: Pugpig Site, Pugpig Publish, and Pugpig Bolt.
Since its founding in 2011, Pugpig now works with consumer magazines, B2B publishers, membership organisations, and news media. These include some of the biggest media brands in the world, including The Economist, Tortoise, Hearst, and News Corporation.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Shorter days on Wednesdays and Fridays
- Training and conference budget
- Wellbeing and healthcare initiatives and options
- Performance-related bonus scheme
- Volunteering days every year so that you can support a charity that’s close to your heart
- 25 days holiday (plus public holidays), with an extra day for every year you work at Pugpig after 5 years
- Hybrid working
- Loads of team socials
Leadership
Jonny Kaldor
(CEO)They studied at Imperial before working as a Software Engineer, Accenture Manager, and at EMI Music and News UK. In February 2011, they co-founded Pugpig, serving as CEO since.
Jon Marks
(CTO)They studied Computer Science at the University of Cape Town after which they worked as a Software Architect at various firms including ABN Amro, DigitasLBi and News Corp. They co-founded Pugpig in 2011.
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