Product Designer
Location: London (Oval) inc. flex
Type: Fulltime (must be Londonbased)
Salary:
About Zen Educate
Zen Educate is transforming how schools find staff. UK schools spend over 2 billion a year on agency staff600 million of which goes to recruitment agencies. Weve built a better way.
Our platform connects schools directly with fully vetted teachers and support staff saving schools over 30 million since 2017. That money goes back into classrooms and educator pay.
The Role
As a Product Designer youll play a critical role in shaping the tools schools and educators rely on daily. Youll work endtoendfrom discovery and strategy to polished UIalongside a crossfunctional team of PMs Engineers and other Designers.
This is a highimpact opportunity to contribute to a fastgrowing missiondriven startup and help define how education staffing works in the UK and beyond.
What Youll Do
Lead design projects across web and mobile platforms
Run discovery activities (research mapping ideation prototyping)
Deliver wireframes user flows and highfidelity UI
Contribute to and evolve our design system
Use data and research to guide design decisions
Help support and uplift the design team
What Were Looking For
3 years in Product Design or UX/UI ideally in a fastpaced environment
A portfolio showing strong UX thinking and endtoend process
Figma expertise and comfort working in design systems
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Pragmatic problemsolver who balances users business and tech
Bonus: experience with marketplaces education or staffing platforms
Youll Thrive Here If You
Care about building purposeful products
Love collaborating across teams
Are proactive adaptable and biased toward action
Want to grow in a supportive highperforming team
Whats in it for you
Work that you want to talk about
Competitive salary
Ownership in the company
25 days of holiday
Central London office with perks like fresh fruit bike parking showers and an onsite gym and caf
Funloving tightknit team solving a problem that makes a difference
11 coaching
Life Insurance
Health Insurance
Electric Car Scheme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Diversity and Inclusion
At Zen we strive to build a culture of equity and inclusion where everyone is respected valued and appreciated for their unique traits experiences and perspectives. We are committed to creating a safe inclusive and equitable environment where our team can thrive regardless of age ethnicity race gender identity sexual orientation socioeconomic status disability religion or beliefs. We value our differences and believe that practices of Diversity Equity and Inclusion help us create a fairer more compassionate environment for all.
We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and different experiences and perspectives just like the staff who teach through Zen and the children at the schools we work with. We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool and creating an inclusive culture where peoples voices are heard and all our team can look forward to coming to work.
We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and promoting an equitable and inclusive environment for all. We seek out diverse opinions beliefs and experiences because they collectively make us stronger; weve had former teachers pilots fundraisers engineers lawyers marketers social media experts and more join our team.