Senior Product UX/UI Designer
Elvie, United Kingdom
Job Description
* It is an exciting time at Elvie! We have recently recruited 2 Product UX/UI Designers and are now recruiting a 3rd to join our growing team. We will consider applicants for our Bristol or London office.
Life at Elvie - Meaningful work. Exceptional people
We develop smarter technology for women and are committed to building extraordinary products that improve women’s lives. It's a fascinating and challenging area to be addressing as it requires all our employees to stretch themselves and solve problems that no-one's tackled before. That's why we are looking for skilled, curious individuals who want to grow by surrounding themselves with a diverse array of outstanding people.
Our first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected trainer that helps women strengthen the pelvic floor via fun, five-minute workouts. It took the wellness industry by storm and is now available via the NHS Supply Chain. Our street cred includes more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious Red Dot Award and an IDA Design Award.
Our second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent wearable breast pump, is making it possible for new mothers to pump anytime, anywhere. Elvie Pump has received international praise, including being listed as one of Times 100 best inventions in 2019 and ‘wearable design of the design of the year’ at the Dezeen Awards.
As a business, Elvie has received more than 30 awards, including being named as one of 15 startups To Watch by The Sunday Times, ranked as the 6th fastest growing business in the UK by SyndicateRoom in 2019. Tania Boler has recently been rated as the 8th most influential person shaping british technology in 2019 by Business Insider and both products have been featured in the Oscar Nominee Gift Bags.
In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B from IPGL, Octopus Ventures and Impact Ventures, bringing the total raised thus far to over $50 million. Our Series B represented the largest ever fundraise in Femtech. This new round of financing will accelerate Elvie’s research and development efforts, as well as help grow brand awareness and distribution.We currently have offices in London, Shanghai and New York and planning to open a new Ramp;D facility in Bristol in early 2020, while growing our Headquarter in London.
What does it mean to work at Elvie?
We work collaboratively at the forefront of the growing Femtech industry with our innovative tech-focused products. You are surrounded by people who want to improve everything and everyone around them, and are passionate about our mission. We’re driven by the fulfilment of solving hard problems are constantly considering our users and the positive impact we can have on their health and wellbeing.
We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive.
- We make an impact - we are mission driven and not afraid to break boundaries. We relentlessly focus on going the extra mile to solve problems
- We are fearless innovators - we are passionate, curious and data-driven. We continuously embrace change and innovation
- We are in it together - we fail and learn fast, always as one team, and have fun along the way. We stay authentic and embrace our differences
The role
While we know UX and UI are not the same roles, we believe there is a shared mindset, as well as shared skills and methods. So, if you already practise either UX or UI, and are able demonstrate your hybrid expertise in another discipline, then this job is for you. We are looking for someone whose experience goes beyond interfaces and can show holistic thinking is part of their design portfolio.
We build great products that are both physical and digital. Day to day, you’ll be part of the product teams designing and developing these products, working end to end, from research and concept to delivery. We put the user at the centre of our design process: you’ll be working closely with product managers, product researchers, design engineers and data scientists to make sure we design product experiences worthy of the Elvie brand.
We believe that compelling and intuitive UI design for products is done best by designers that understand user experience. Creating an experience that makes sense to the user and visually communicating that experience are very interdependent. Sometimes it's the small interactions that bring the magic and those happen at the crossroads of UI and UX.
Who you are
- You have at least 4 years of commercial experience as a designer of products and/or services
- You understand users and love crafting engaging experiences for digital and physical products
- Your portfolio de