Staff Product Designer, Gousto
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office
Recipe boxes delivered to your door
Job no longer available
Recipe boxes delivered to your door
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Gousto's mission is to be the most-loved way to eat dinner.
Role
Who you are
- A design systems leader with a proven track record of driving consistency, scalability, and accessibility within in-house teams
- An expert in componentisation, documentation, governance, and adoption strategies, ensuring design systems are both effective and widely embraced
- Proactive and growth-oriented, always challenging yourself and your team to improve
- Comfortable navigating complex, ambiguous problems, turning them into clear, actionable solutions
- A strong communicator across written, verbal, and visual formats, ensuring alignment and clarity
- A supportive and kind team player, fostering a culture of collaboration and emotional safety
What the job involves
- As the Staff Product Designer for the International Design System at Gousto, you’ll shape and scale a global design system that ensures consistency, accessibility, and adaptability across markets. Collaborating with Product Management, Engineering, Data, Marketing, and Brand, you’ll drive adoption, establish best practices, and balance global standards with local flexibility
- Beyond design systems, you’ll lead the end-to-end design process for the Expand tribe, defining experiments to improve customer experience (CX) and commercial performance in new markets
- As a key design leader, you’ll help elevate design excellence across teams, mentoring designers and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
- Lead and evolve Gousto’s International Design System, ensuring it supports multi-market needs while maintaining a high standard of design quality
- Define scalable design patterns that accommodate cultural differences, local user behaviours, and regional accessibility requirements
- Define success metrics for the design system and continuously refine it based on feedback, research, and evolving business needs
- Co-shape the vision & strategy for our international expansion tribe, considering the broader context of the customer experience and the business
- Lead the end-to-end design process, validate your solutions with users and customers, using both qualitative and quantitative research methods
Application process
- Call with a Talent Partner
- Hiring Manager conversation
- Case Study interview
- Whiteboarding interview
Salary benchmarks
Our take
There is an accelerating consumer need to eat healthily, sustainably, and at value. Gousto aims to meet this need with its meal-kit delivery service, which offers pre-packaged ingredients and recipe instructions. It sets itself apart with more than 60 different recipes to choose from each week - a third of which are customisable.
In 2021, Gousto sold more than 90 million meals, amounting to three meals every second, a figure that is on the rise. It is part of the UK Plastics Pact, which advocates for 100% reusable, recyclable and compostable plastic. As a member, Gousto has committed to eliminating problematic plastics, stimulating innovation and helping to build a stronger recycling system in the UK.
Gousto became a B Corp certified company for its sustainability efforts. Following huge investments in 2023, the company is now a unicorn and is sure to continue its growth over the coming years as more consumers switch to convenient online grocery shopping.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Feb 2023
$67.8m
LATE VC
Jan 2022
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $380.3m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays), + a holiday day added each year (up to 30 days), + buy up to 5 days extra holiday
- 40% Gousto discount, 25% for friends and family, and first box free
- Private healthcare
- Gym and ClassPass membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Referral scheme
- Company pension
- Quarterly team socials and mixed team events
- Gousto stash - hoodie, notepad, mug
- Free coffee, tea, fruit and ice cream
- Free beer, wine and soft drinks on Fridays
Company values
- Dream - We’ve got huge ambition and believe everything is possible - Curious, bold and resilient, we’ve got an insatiable appetite to learn and grow
- Deliver - We work at pace and focus on impact, taking ownership of the solution and raising the bar every step of the way
- Care - We obsess over our customers, doing the right thing for them and for the planet. We are one team, supporting and celebrating one another
Company HQ
Hammersmith, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Timo Boldt
(CEO & Founder)Spent 4 years in Finance at Rothschild and a hedge fund before founding Gousto in 2012. Sits on the Digital Advisory Board at Unilever.
People progressing
Joined as Operations Development Director, being promoted to EVP Operations after 1 year, and has since become Chief People Officer.
Joined as a Customer Care Agent in 2014, and is now Head of Customer Care.
Joined as PR Manager, being promoted to Senior Brand and PR Manager after 1 year and again to Head of Brand Marketing and PR after 3 years.
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