Senior Product Designer (iOS/Android Apps)

• Competitive salary + share options
• Technology company with a physical output
• Post-lockdown: A stunning office location in Soho, London

About Popsa

💢 Popsa was recently named as the UK’s fastest growing software startup of 2020 by Deloitte.

Founded in 2016, Popsa is a tech company dedicated to helping people rediscover the meaningful experiences and relationships that are hidden away in their photo libraries.

More than ever before, people are capturing these stories through their photographs, but important content often sits on devices or in the cloud, never to be revisited.

Popsa was originally founded on the idea of having a photobook simply pop into existence every time you do something significant in your life. We have already built an award-winning experience that allows users to do just that in a matter of minutes.

Now we’re harnessing the possibilities of data science and automated personalisation to realise our even bigger ambition: To help people build sophisticated narratives around their photos so that they can express themselves in a way that is accessible to people from all walks of life.

We want to be an antidote to the disposable culture of social media – so we’re building a platform to help people to curate and enjoy their most meaningful experiences in a variety of forms – not just in print (we'd love to chat to you more about this in person 😀).

Our native iOS and Android apps are available in 12 languages and we ship to over 50 countries from facilities on 3 continents. We are backed by some of the best investors in the world and last year alone we turned over $25m in revenue.

We’ve built an incredibly talented team of almost 100 people, and we are looking for the smartest designers to come and help us scale – creating new possibilities from our technology, driving growth and inventing truly world-class user experiences.

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for Senior Product Designers to join our new Product Design team, reporting directly to our Chief Product Officer.

Ideally you’ll have some experience designing for web (we'll soon be bringing Popsa to the web as part of a new project that harnesses real-time collaboration 🤫), but experience designing native iOS and Android apps is our top priority.

We’re looking for people who really care about their craft, love the challenge of designing modern interfaces that efficiently convert users at scale, and for those who instinctively want to ease customer anxiety points along the way.

Pixel perfection isn't the only thing that matters, but it certainly helps communicate care and attention-to-detail to users who might be wondering about the quality of out physical products. 👌

Our CEO has more than a decade's experience designing mobile consumer experiences himself, so rest assured that product thinking is central to everything we do.

We have extensive in-house engineering, data science, marketing and creative teams already established and we will be transitioning to cross-functional working as soon as we've put together a team of brilliant product designers who want to take our app to the next level.

There is a huge opportunity to impact the future of our business as well as the artefacts we produce (we'll show you some cool next-generation prototypes during your interview), and although not everyone is interested in leadership, there are plenty of options there too.

The day to day job

• Devising product strategy
• Problem solving
• Sketching (we love sketching!) ❤️
• Designing interfaces and experiences
• Assessing customer feedback
• Interpreting our extensive analytics resources
• Testing and iterating (we have hundreds of thousands of active users so there is a fast iterative cadence)
• Talking to engineers, stakeholders and other people in the business as well as with our users
• Discussing your design work and feeding back on that of your colleagues

Benefits

• 20 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays, as well as an additional 5 working days paid-leave inbetween Christmas and New Year
• Equity options
• Training budget for conferences and courses
• Diverse, collaborative and supportive environment
• Regular team nights out (back when that was a thing... 😭)
• Fresh fruit, good coffee and - during covid - the occasional tasty treat from us sent direct to your door

Other Considerations

In non-pandemic times, our office is fully lift accessible.
We’re extremely close to Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus and Tottenham Court Road tube stations so commuting is easy, and - most importantly - there will be lots of great places for lunch when everything re-opens.