Lead Product Designer, Howbout
4 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
The social app to keep up with friends based on how they spend their time.
Open for applications
The social app to keep up with friends based on how they spend their time.
1-20 employees
Open for applications
4 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
1-20 employees
Company mission
To redefine Gen Z's relationship with time.
Role
Who you are
- Track record: You have 4+ years of experience in Product Design (ideally at a start-up or scale-up)
- Tools: You are proficient in a design tool such as Figma or Sketch
- Appreciation for quality: You take pride in your work and are keen to deliver beautiful designs that realise great experiences for users
- Coachability: You absorb data and feedback easily, adapting and improving quickly
- Collaboration: You collaborate effectively with product managers, designers, engineers and other team members
- Grit: You persevere towards challenging goals which may take weeks or months. You have strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to troubleshoot unexpected issues on the fly
- Growth mindset: You embrace challenges, welcome feedback, and believe you and others can always grow
- Hustle: A strong work ethic, team player mentality and ability to work independently across a range of diverse tasks
- Leadership: You're able to unlock the fullest potential of those around you through coaching, motivation, and vision-casting
- Management: You can manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment to tight deadlines and with a commitment to always delivering at a high quality
- Ownership: You accept full accountability and take initiative to find solutions to achieve results
- Proactive positivity: You move on from challenges stronger and happier and bring care and intention to how your words and actions make others feel
- Sense of humour: We don’t take life too seriously at Howbout!
Desirable
- Experience designing mobile apps
- Experience running user research, such as through interviews, usability studies and A/B testing
- A portfolio of designs you’ve worked on that you can show us
- You’ve been involved in the creation and implementation of design systems
- You have an understanding of front-end development and how designs are turned into code
What the job involves
- Delivering and steering designs from concept to implementation: from the top level UX flows down to the high-quality UI designs
- Helping shape the product roadmap based on user desires and needs, both in the short- and long-term while staying flexible enough to react to new information and opportunities
- Championing user-centric design thinking across the whole company
- Working with our VP Product scaling our product processes to ensure we maintain high product velocity while we scale our team and user base
- Researching how our users are using the app, speaking with them regularly to learn about their needs, pain points and desires and feeding this back into the product process
- Identifying opportunities for enhancing the user experience though refined design or new features
- Working closely with the developers to implement your designs and get them shipped to users
- Drafting hypotheses and constructing experiments, then using data and qualitative feedback to evaluate success
Application process
- 1. Apply here and tell us these 3 things:
- A) What about Howbout specifically inspired you to apply?
- B) One part of the Howbout app you think needs to be improved
- C) One app on your phone that you use daily and couldn’t live without (and why)
- If you have any examples of previous work / projects please share those too
- 2. Video call with one of our co-founders
- 3. Take-home challenge & follow-up interview
- 4. Final in-person interview
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Howbout is a social calendar app looking to take the stress out of planning private trips, outings, and meetups. Users can synch calendars from other sources and with each other to check availability, make plan pages with dedicated chats, and add polls, maps, and even event countdowns.
For a social app launched over the pandemic period of prohibited in-person meetings, Howbout has demonstrated remarkable growth in evolving into a calendar app that revolves around circles of friends. It currently has over 4 million downloads worldwide and users in over 125 different countries, generating hugely positive customer reviews.
This is a big coup: customer onboarding is a key obstacle for any app requiring high levels of uptake amongst social circles. Especially given people’s predisposition to using simpler (if less efficient) means like WhatsApp group chats.
This issue may have been what caught out similar social planning app MESH, which was launched in the early 2010s and appears to have fallen off. Howbout has had a strong start with an impressive Series A and awards under its belt. Today’s social media climate is perhaps more inclined towards leveraging different forms of social media so this high-growth company could be the one to break through.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
31% female employees
Company
Employee endorsements
Open and honest communication
"At Howbout, the founders are especially good at keeping all employees in the loop with the high-level company direction at regular all-hands..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2024
$8m
SERIES A
Nov 2022
$2.5m
SEED
Total funding: $11.3m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary
- Generous share option package
- Opportunity to shape the direction of a high-growth startup as one of its earliest employees
- Regular company events with a social team
- Day off in your birthday week and extra annual leave for every year at Howbout
- Professional development budget to support training, skills & progression
- Social allowance - £500 per year to spend on plans with friends
- Remote working policy to allow you to work abroad
- Forward-thinking, enhanced employee wellbeing policies
- + more as we continue to put in place additional benefits and perks
Company values
- Extraordinary people
- Working extraordinarily hard
- Building something extraordinary
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Neil Tanna
(CEO)Ex-corporate lawyer focused on the tech sector, Neil heads up our product & business vision. Previously awarded “Student Leader of the Year” at University of Exeter.
Duncan Cowan
(CTO)Duncan worked as a spacecraft engineer before Neil convinced him that co-founding Howbout would be as exciting as putting satellites in the sky.
Jake Jenner
(CFO)Ex-investment banker turned private equity investor, Jake’s focused on harnessing & applying our data, analytics and trends as well as our financials & forecasting.
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