Senior Digital Product Designer

About Us

Hello, we are Red Engine, the team behind the award-winning global brands Flight Club and Electric Shuffle. We're obsessed with disrupting the hospitality industry by creating and delivering the best possible experience - across all venues, products and brands.  

Our central team covers the full spectrum of skills needed to bring each concept to life – from design to marketing, sales to interior design, people and training, to finance, gaming and HR and everything in between.   We’re not just a team of people, we are dreamers, artists, rocket scientists, content curators, forward thinkers and the industry’s finest. We love what we do and are proud to be included in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024.

With a total of 17 incredible venues throughout the UK, and a further 12 around the globe, we have ambitious plans and are passionate about developing new and exciting products, which means we’re always growing and looking for passionate people to join the family.

The Job

We’re looking for an experienced product designer to help drive our digital product squads to design better interfaces, release faster, and improve the experience for everyone through quality. They will play a pivotal role, working in a cross-functional product squad.

The ideal candidate will be customer obsessed, maximise conversion and deliver the roadmap through design by continuously improving the customer experience. Help drive research, understand the motivations and behaviours of our customers to design easy customer-focused products.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Build and maintain a design system of visual, reusable components and patterns that will allow the team to release high quality work efficiently and consistently
• Create, own and manage the product Design Principles, Guidelines and Design System
• Lead and oversee the user experience of a product from conception to launch in partnership with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders
• Provide implementation guidance to engineers and ensure features launch at the highest quality
• Lead and evolve design practices to enhance efficiency, effectiveness and quality in delivery
• Present designs, prototypes and concepts to cross functional partners and stakeholders
• Lead and contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and stakeholders
• Responsibilities will include improving the booking processes, and website redesigns for Electric Shuffle and Flight Club

To be successful in this role, you’ll:

• Have extensive digital design experience, a plus if in entertainment or hospitality industries.
• Visual design experience with expertise in typography, desktop/mobile UI, colour, layout, iconography and aesthetic sense and how these elements impact product function
• Use appropriate prototyping tools such as Figma to demonstrate how a particular component, pattern or interaction will work
• An effective collaborator working in cross-functional teams to combine resources to achieve company-wide goals
• Experience building, releasing and maintaining design systems that are broad in scope and span multiple platforms
• Influence business-wide through effective communication, data proof points and successful persuasion to get impact and the best results
• Demonstrate innovative end-to-end thinking through customer advocacy to generate new ideas that meet customer needs
• Demonstrate technical understanding of engineering methods and desire for continuous learning.
• Data-driven approach, confidently able to present research.
• Experienced with several Design Thinking frameworks with demonstrated success of helping to ship and iterate.
• Please include your portfolio in your application.

What you'll get

• Competitive pay
• Annual bonus
• 33 days annual leave, including bank holidays
• Fusion working (our team are regularly in our venues, working collaboratively in our bright offices in Angel, or focusing on individual projects with work from home Thursdays)
• Staff discount in all venues (50% off Sunday, Monday, 25% off Tuesday – Saturday, and free game hire)
• Private healthcare
• Regular team socials
• Monthly learning and development classes, quarterly teambuilding events
• Summer and Christmas socials
• Help @ hand 24/7 health support
• Free access to therapy, nutritionists and physiotherapists
• Weekly lunch in venue

Here at Red Engine, we believe our success begins and ends with our people. We are committed to a diverse culture where all our team feel respected and included. We acknowledge the power that a diverse set of beliefs and perspectives can bring, and that a variety of voices strengthens our team, enhances creativity, and drives innovation. We welcome applications from candidates of all identities, including individuals of different races, ethnicities, genders and sexual orientations. If you're passionate about contributing to a culture of inclusion and collaboration, please apply.