Senior Product Designer

ONDA; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A lifestyle platform organization is looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead UX and product design for their website and app. You will set the design culture, manage user research, and collaborate closely with the CEO and engineering teams. This role offers a hybrid work model and the chance to impact the direction of a community-driven platform. Ideal candidates have a passion for creating world-class user experiences and possess skills in Figma or Sketch.

Benefits

Travel flexibility

Access to ONDA’s collection of spaces

Early stage share options

Market competitive salary

Ownership around developing user experience

Qualifications

• Experience bringing a high-quality digital product from concept to launch.
• Designing products for consumer applications across desktop, web, and mobile.
• Experience in interviewing customers and conducting user experience research.

Responsibilities

• Setting the design culture within the organization.
• Owning the end-to-end design process.
• Shipping the product aligning the team around the product roadmap.

Skills

User research

Figma

Sketch

Strong communication skills

Agile methodologies

Job description

ONDA is a network of extraordinary people, places and experiences.

Our goal is to empower people with shared interests by building real human connections, accessing intimate communities, and unlocking events and experiencesacross the world.

People from diverse backgrounds join the ONDA network as members to access private spaces for work and play. These spaces are currently composed of a curated collective of premium workspaces and members clubs around the world with respective experiences, networks and events. These members are passionate individuals including entrepreneurs, travelers, artists, professionals, and more.

Our offices are located in London, but our customer base and collection of spaces span across the world.

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer that can lead our UX and product design for our website and app. This person would also be a key individual delivering the ONDA lifestyle experience. You will be reporting directly to the CEO and COO.

We have a hybrid work model for candidates in London and NYC. We also believe talent can be found in other places, so we are open to candidates between +3 GMT (Moscow, Istanbul) and -5 GMT (US East Coast).

You will be responsible for:

• Becoming the first design team member setting the design culture in the organization
• Helping scale design efforts by creating and maintaining key user flows, interaction designs, brand guidelines, design principles and systems, and processes
• Owning the end-to-end design process from working with user research to collaborating with engineering to deliver designs for core features of the product
• Guide the product priorities for the engineering team based on our users’ needs, manage the product backlog, and work closely to a minimal viable launch and ongoing product launches thereafter
• Deeply understand and identify user desires and pain points through user research such as through user calls and data analysis
• Agile feature specification and ensuring engineering has well-scoped features and designs to work with
• Shipping the product by aligning the team around the product roadmap, feature priorities and timelines
• Syncing the team around clear product vision, design vision, and building the underlying OKRs/KPIs

Qualifications

Demonstrable experience bringing a high quality digital product from concept to completion and launch

Experience designing products for consumer applications on desktop, web, and/or mobile (startup, marketplace and consumer product experience are a plus)

Experience interviewing customers and running user experience research

Strong communication skills - you’ll be to synthesize insights and share the results of tests and discussing technical problems

Ability to take product ideas from hypotheses to requirements and designs to implementation within a structured framework

A direct hands on approach to product requirements and product design

Thrive in uncertainty but enjoy collaboration (we are moving quickly!)

You are meticulous about the product but also take methodical approaches to improving the overall roadmap

Ability to iterate through work quickly

You are passionate about building a world class lifestyle platform

You have the experience with at least one of the following:

• Sketch
• Figma

Additional Information

Our Culture

Our goal is to mitigate the online and offline disconnect, bringing people with shared values together to share meaningful experiences at select places.

As one of the first hires for our product team, you will have a unique opportunity to shape the direction of the platform and ultimately change how communities network across the world.

We are looking for someone sharing that belief and is willing to impact our mission.

If you're looking to be part of the founding team of an early-stage business that is fundamentally changing how we bring experiences to our network, then we can offer you:

• Permanent full-time role
• Travel flexibility
• Salary is market competitive
• Benefit to access ONDA’s collection of spaces and network
• Early stage share options equity
• The opportunity to build beautiful and world class user experience
• Ownership around developing the user experience with the CEO

We are committed to building a diverse culture and are eager to receive applications from all backgrounds. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination.