Lead Product Designer
Job Description
About Lapse
Today’s social media giants compel us to curate our lives for likes from strangers and to compete with friends for followers. We’ve been so caught up in that game, we forgot the real reason we signed up in the first place.
Taking and sharing photos wasn’t always like this. Remember photos before smartphones? Point & shoot. No edit. No review. Nothing between you and the moment.
Drawing inspiration from film photography, we’re building the next generation of that experience. Rethinking the way we take and share photos with our friends. Creating a space focused on enjoying the moment and sharing your real life with your real friends.
More on why we built Lapse on our blog →
We are the #1 most downloaded Photo & Video app in the USA & Canada. Millions of memories get captured everyday on Lapse, and we’re quickly becoming the default camera of choice for Gen Z. We have raised $40M in funding from some of the world's top VCs including Greylock, Google Ventures & DST.
The team
We are a small, high performing team of 15 based in Soho, London who pride ourselves on building amazing digital experiences, fast.
Design at Lapse
Lapse is a design-led company. The founder, Ben is a hands-on designer who built the product from the ground up to where it is today. We are looking for our first key product design hire to join Ben in building out a cross-functional, world-class design team.
The role
We’re step one on our journey to become the next big social network. We are looking for a Lead Product Designer excited to roll up their sleeves as an individual contributor, but inspired at the prospect of building a team and shaping the design process.
We pride ourselves on our product approach which combines art, science & speed.
You will partner with co-founder, Ben, on the creation of new features and product improvements, informed by data insights. You will design innovative, intuitive, and elegant digital experiences, leveraging real user research and insight. You will work closely with product & engineering teams to bring your designs to life, and into the hands of millions of users.
As the Lead Product Designer you must:
Have 5+ yrs industry experience as a Product Designer working on consumer technology in a high-paced product team, studio or agency
Have 5+ yrs interaction design experience and evangelize how experiences should behave based on understanding people's needs
Implement a combination of strategic, conceptual and design skills to create intuitive and delightful digital experiences
Care deeply about people's motivations & behaviors, use empathy and proven research methodologies to make informed design decisions balancing both user and product perspectives
Have strong design sensibilities and an intimate understanding of typography, layout, visual hierarchy and motion
Have hands on experience building or shaping design processes and design systems at scale
Take fast-paced environments and tight deadlines in your stride
Be comfortable presenting your design rationale to leadership and engineering teams
See design through from idea to production, creating low & high fidelity prototypes, conducting research and producing product specs where needed
Highly proficient in Figma, component libraries & experience building high fidelity animated prototypes (we use Protopie)
Benefits
Hackathons - We believe that the best work is born from the creative collisions which come from being together, switching things up and making things exciting. So far we’ve hosted team hackathons in Lisbon, Marrakesh & Barcelona.
Time off - Lapse offers 35 days of holiday per year + bank holidays
Health - Private medical and dental insurance with vitality
Learning - Yearly learning & development budget of £2,500
Lunch on us - We regularly eat lunch together as a team for our product/engineering forums and Lunch & Learns
Tools - You'll receive all new equipment including a top of the line MacBook Pro & iPhone 13 Pro or Pro Max
Other benefits - Cycle to work scheme, pension & 2 days per year voluntary leave to work with a charity