Who We Are ⚡
Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards. Founded in 2017 by a team with extensive HRTech experience, Zinc is an early-stage startup rapidly growing as it redefines efficiency, transparency, and fairness in background checks.
📚Read more about our story here: www.zincwork.com/mission
We're a
culture first company, by this we don't just mean an active calendar of both company and team organised events 🍔🍻🎯 (which we do have 🤩), Zinc's culture is defined by a respectful and autonomous approach to all employees, fostering support for new ideas, promoting a flexible work environment, and operating within a flat structure. While socials, lunches, and events enhance the experience, the core of Zinc's culture drives employees to embrace innovation, share successes, and feel motivated about the company's future.
🪴We recently redefined our company values:
🧩The pieces that make Zinc: Pragmatic, Integrity, Empathy, Collaborate, Empowered, Speed.
What The Role Is 💼
We're looking another Senior Product designer here at Zinc. 😎 Design at Zinc requires a broad range of skills in UX/UI and an interest in research too. You'll be working with standard B2B SaaS patterns and innovating on new patterns for proving work identity.
Design at Zinc is a wide range of customer research and interfacing with internal teams, some days you won't be looking at the canvas. You'll get full exposure to all elements of our design and product lifecycle. We're looking for an all-rounder that is skilled in both UI and UX and is excited by the idea of building out user centric product journeys.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Lead Feature Research & Strategy: Lead research initiatives, including user interviews and competitive analysis, to identify opportunities and ensure designs address real user pain points while aligning with business goals. 🔍
- Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and Stakeholders to define and execute product designs that address both user and business needs. You'll ensure cross-functional alignment and share your insights to drive decisions. 🤝
- Drive End-to-End Design Process: Take full ownership of the design lifecycle, from ideation to delivery. Ensure that designs are scalable, user-friendly, and well integrated into Zinc's product ecosystem. 🖌️
- Design with Agility: At Zinc, things move quickly. You'll need to iterate rapidly and deliver high-quality design solutions within tight timelines, balancing speed with excellence. 🚀
- Clear Communication & Stakeholder Management: Lead design presentations and workshops, providing clear and actionable design rationales. Work directly with product teams and business stakeholders to iterate on and finalise design solutions. 📣
Requirements
📍Hybrid, Old Street, LDN
We appreciate the value of in person connection with colleagues and flexible working for our employees. We operate a hybrid model with 2 days a week in office, Mondays and Thursdays.
💸 Salary - £70,000 - £80,000
You Have 🛠️
User-Centred Research Expertise
- Extensive experience conducting user research in B2B SaaS environments to identify needs and pain points. Skilled at leveraging qualitative and quantitative data to design solutions that address real problems and drive measurable results
Advanced Design Skills 🖌️ - Proficient in creating high-fidelity, intuitive UI designs for complex B2B products. Expertise in tools like Figma or Sketch, delivering everything from initial wireframes to polished final designs aligned with user and business goals
Well-versed with Design Systems - Proven ability to develop and maintain scalable design systems, ensuring consistency and efficiency across product ecosystems while delivering cohesive user experiences
Prototyping & Interaction Design 👨🎨 - Adept at creating prototypes and interactive designs to validate concepts and iterate quickly. Skilled in tools such as Figma and InVision for rapid testing and refinement
You Are 🧩
- Pragmatic Excel in agile, fast-paced environments by delivering quality results quickly while maintaining design integrity.
- Empathetic Deeply understand user needs and advocate for them while balancing technical and business constraints to create impactful solutions.
- Autonomous Take ownership of design projects, making informed decisions independently while seeking feedback to drive continuous improvement.
- Communicative & Collaborative Confidently articulate complex design concepts and facilitate discussions. Excel at cross-functional collaboration and leading design workshops to align teams.
Interview Process 🤩⚡️💎
⚖️ Throughout the interview process, you will be assessed directly inline with the requirements above.
- One-sided video interview with an introduction from Jess, Design Lead. (15 mins) (**Please keep an eye out for this in your junk inbox**)
- Phone call with Bel, Talent Lead (5 minutes)
- Interview with Joe, Senior Product Designer & Gabi, Senior Product Manager (30mins)
⚡️⚡️⚡️Zinc Preview - Pre-final stage reference's with Zinc ⚡️⚡️⚡️
- Final In-person interview with Task with Luke, CEO & Founder, Jess, Design Lead, Han, Product Designer & One of our delightful Engineers, (1 hour)
🤖 Important Notice: Our recruitment process does not involve AI-driven automated screening.
Benefits
What we offer 🍉
Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company retreat
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
- Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
- Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
- Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
- Celebrated Zinc anniversaries
