Senior Staff Product Designer

About The Role

The Experience team defines how our customers, riders, restaurants and employees interact with Deliveroo’s products. Based in London, our team has a global impact, with our work reaching customers in Singapore, riders in Milan and restaurant kitchens in Paris.

As a senior member of the team you’ll not only be responsible for doing world class design work, but also in helping the rest of the team do great design work too. 

• Define standards & Work closely with design teams in defining, designing and evolving high-level design patterns, UI kits, guidelines, and custom tooling. Balance product needs and technical feasibility to build a scalable, usable system.
• Communicate & Ensure that everyone is equipped to adopt design systems as they grow and evolve. Proactively communicating changes and updates, gathering feedback to adjust the system, and unblocking designers as they run into issues.
• Drive excellence & Champion consistency, a high degree of UI craft, and the inclusion of illustration and animation in our products. Scheduling and facilitating regular meetings for planning and critique of design work.
• Assist with technical implementation: Work closely with UI engineers who build and maintain design systems in code.
• Work closely with your team and other designers in defining, designing and iterating on product features across web and mobile platforms

Coaching & mentoring your fellow designers, leading critique sessions, helping to create consistency across disparate pieces of design work and reinforcing the high bar we set for the quality of our collective output.

• Invest in design standards, documentation, and processes alongside your team members to further our design practice
• Shape product strategy and vision together with product managers
• Drive and support cross-team initiatives that make the Content, Research & Design practice at Deliveroo better - such as improving our hiring process, expanding our community presence, interviewing potential new team members, and much more
• Work in the way that works for you and what you're designing, whether that's spending time sketching or jumping straight into pixels and code
• Identifying the opportunity for a new product
• Researching market & customer needs, etc.
• Examples of concepting product designs
• Experience Design: user research, UX Flows, wireframes, prototyping, testing, etc.
• Visual Interface Design: colour palette, branding, general visual aesthetics
• Interaction Design: animation, menus, general functionality
• Quality assurance of build, further testing, etc.

What you might work on

The products we work on are as diverse as the users we serve, and we’re fortunate to be in a company where design is a first class citizen. Design spans every aspect of our product and our operations, and during your time at Deliveroo you’ll be exposed to a number of very different areas, such as:

• Our Rider apps
• Products for our Restaurants
• Our suite of Consumer products
• Internal Tools to help us provide better customer service
• Design systems and tools

What you should bring

• We value intellectual humility, an eagerness to learn, and the ability to move quickly while being pragmatic about your decisions. But above all else, we're looking for unique personalities with varied backgrounds that add something new to our team.

Requirements

• Are a keen problem solver - you enjoy thinking through complex product challenges and care about solving the right problem
• Have a well trained eye for great visual design execution. You care about getting things right - one pixel off is a big deal.
• Take a strategic view to everything you do - your work stands the test of time
• Are fantastic at communicating your thinking and design decisions - you’re able to get people along on the journey with you
• Are well versed at working with disciplines in your work to achieve the best outcome, such as user research, content and engineering.
• Enjoy mentoring others in their professional development as designers
• Have several years' experience in an individual contributor role on a product design team
• Have a great appetite (we love eating!)
• Have a good sense of humour!
• You don’t need to have a degree to apply. What matters is you and the work you do.

Why Deliveroo

Our mission is to be the definitive food company. We are transforming the way the world eats by making food more convenient and accessible. We give people the opportunity to eat what they want, as they want it, when and where they want it.

We are a technology-driven company at the forefront of the most rapidly expanding industry in the world. We are still a small team, making a very large impact, looking to answer some of the most interesting questions out there. We move fast, value autonomy and ownership, and we are always looking for new ideas.

Workplace & Benefits

At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. Benefits differ by country, butWe offer many benefits in areas including healthcare, wellbeing, parental leave, pensions, and generous annual leave allowances, including time off to support a charitable cause of your choice. Benefits are country specific, please ask your recruiter for more information.

Diversity

At Deliveroo, we believe a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgement when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are - your gender, race, sexuality, religion or a secret aversion to coriander. All you need is a passion for (most) food and a desire to be part of one of the fastest growing businesses in a rapidly growing industry.

We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of our hiring process. We recognise that disabled people may require adjustments to apply for a position or fairly participate in the interview process. If you require any adjustments , please don't hesitate to let us know. We will make every effort to provide the necessary adjustments  to ensure you have an equitable  opportunity to succeed.