Senior Product Designer, Beam
2-5 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
Reinventing welfare services with tech & AI
Open for applications
Reinventing welfare services with tech & AI
101-200 employees
Open for applications
2-5 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give everyone access to human-centred welfare services
Role
Who you are
- Humble, empathetic, hungry to make an impact
- Excited about the possibilities of tech and AI to bring change
- Collaborative with cross-functional teams to ensure that products meet the needs of users and business goals
- Excited about creating prototypes and mockups to visualize and test design concepts
- Up-to-date on the latest design trends and technologies
- 6+ years of experience in product design, with a focus on user experience (UX) and user interface (UI)
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies
- Experience with conducting user research and testing design concepts
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our Product team and help us deliver our company mission: to give everyone access to human-centred welfare services
- At the forefront of transforming little-changed welfare services like employment and housing with the latest technologies
- Responsible for leading the design of new products and features from concept to launch by playing a key role in shaping the future of our products
- A hands-on, experienced Senior Product Designer who loves working with a team to deliver truly exceptional products that drive measurable impact
- Part of our product team within Beam will mean experimenting, learning from our mistakes and successes, setting a sky-high quality bar for product, and influencing the strategic direction based on partner feedback and market demands
Application process
- Recruiter Screen - including portfolio review
- Timed design task
- 1-1s interviews, including with Beam’s Founder and CEO, a Product Manager and Senior Product Designer
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Trusted by over 100 government partners, Beam is a social enterprise that brings AI to welfare services. Enabled by tech and AI, their caseworkers have supported thousands of underserved people into homes and jobs, whilst their software has slashed admin for thousands of frontline workers across the UK.
Beam is funded by established names in the UK tech scene, the world's top impact funds and the Mayor of London. Founder and CEO, Alex Stephany, brings a track record from his previous startup backed by Index Ventures and was recently named Purpose Entrepreneur of the Year 2024. The rest of Beam's senior team has their own wealth of experience from a variety of leading startups, tech, and social impact businesses like Arm, Multiverse, and GoCardless.
Beam has also won multiple awards, including a Queen's Award - one of the UK's most prestigious business awards - and has twice been voted as one of the top 100 places to work in the UK. Their work has been covered widely in the media, with features from the BBC, The Times, FT, Forbes and The Independent.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
65% female employees
61% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Meaningful work
"I love working for Beam because you can be certain that everything you do day-to-day will have a visible and lasting impact on a homeless person."
Company benefits
- Share options - Be a Beam owner with EMI-qualifying share options
- Annual retreat - Bond with teammates on a yearly team retreat
- Team talks - Network with big name tech entrepreneurs
- Meditation app - Free subscription to Calm meditation app
- Cyclescheme - Get a discounted bike and accessories
- Generous Holiday - 28 days per year + bank holidays
- Hybrid working - Work at our beautiful Shoreditch office or at home
- 1:1 workplace coaching through More Happi
- 1:1 financial wellbeing through Bippit
- Discounted tech products with Techscheme
- On-demand therapy, coaching, classes & content - powered by Oliva
Company values
- ⚡️ We make an impact - we change lives and fix social problems by setting and achieving ambitious targets
- 🗯 We're open & transparent - we communicate openly and transparently with each other and the world
- 🌱 We get better together - we support each other to improve and actively work on personal growth - with no ego
- 🔦 We're beams of energy and focus - we bring energy and strive for laser focus in our work
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Alex Stephany
(CEO)Previously CEO of JustPark, a leading online marketplace for parking with over 4m customers backed by Index Ventures. Expert on the sharing economy and author of The Business of Sharing (Macmillan).
Seb Barker
(COO)Helped pioneer personalised healthcare for the NHS. Worked on the world's first social impact bond in homelessness.
People progressing
Bluinse is a rising star in ops, focused on Beam Lettings: a pioneering service supporting homeless people into stable homes. Outside of Beam, Bluinse is a bit of a dance star with over 100k subs.
Ryan (no relation to Bluinse :) ) is another rising star in ops, supporting homeless people into stable jobs. Ryan loves footie and guitar. He also organises 'Active Wellbeaming' - our paid for team PT.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Beam
Amira & Kat (Chairs of DEI at Beam)
- We work hard to build teams that are diverse in every way.
- We’re committed to creating inclusive hiring processes which allow people with diverse backgrounds to showcase their talents
- We particular encourage applications from those who are underrepresented in startups: those from black and underrepresented ethnic groups and people with lived experience of homelessness/social disadvantage
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