Founding Designer

Founding Designer

Hayes, Hybrid

£50,000 - £60,000

We're hiring our first dedicated designer to cover the entire customer experience by bridging together our product and marketing teams. This role will be a generalist role where you will spend 3 days per week on product & tech and 2 days on marketing. If you are an adaptable designer who enjoys both deep UX problem-solving and the fast-paced, multi-channel work of a high-growth team, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

As the UK's only B Corp Certified salary sacrifice provider, we're transforming the future of electric vehicle adoption in the UK through salary sacrifice. Building on that success, we've launched The Charge Scheme – an innovative benefit allowing employees to save 20–50% on EV charging via salary sacrifice. Voted 4.9 on Glassdoor and certified by Welcome To The Jungle, it's never been a more exciting time to join

Product & Tech Key Responsibilities:

• Plan and run customer interviews and usability tests to uncover user pain points and validate design solutions.
• Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI for our core product.
• Build the Product Design System: Take ownership of our Figma library, building a robust UI kit of reusable components to ensure product consistency and speed up development.
• Work side-by-side with product managers and engineers to iterate on designs and ship high-quality features.

Marketing Key Responsibilities:

• Design and produce a wide range of assets, including print materials (flyers, posters), PowerPoint decks, and digital/physical event design.
• Create, test, and maintain responsive email templates and campaign-specific designs.
• Design and optimise our marketing website and landing pages, focusing on improving user journeys, conversion rates, and visual engagement.

About you:

• An adaptable designer who is comfortable across the full design spectrum. Your portfolio should demonstrate a strong background in both product design (UX/UI, research) and marketing design (branding, print, campaign assets).
• You have a passion for talking to users and have hands-on experience with user interviews and usability testing.
• You are an expert in Figma and have experience building and maintaining component-based design systems.
• You have strong experience designing websites and landing pages, with a solid understanding of conversion-driven design and web user journeys.
• You can clearly articulate your design decisions to engineers, marketers, and leadership.
• As our first designer, you are highly organised, proactive, and comfortable managing your time across two teams and multiple priorities.

Benefits:

• Hybrid working with 2 days in the office (Hayes, London)
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Add 1 day holiday per year service + buy / sell up to 5 days each year
• Flexible work policy with options to take into account family care
• Best in class Family Friendly Leave and Pay
• Use our own scheme to lease a vehicle through salary sacrifice and save 40-70% to drive a brand new electric car
• £500 pa. personal development budget
• £100 home office budget
• Bupa healthcare
• Equity options - own a part of the business