UX/UI Designer

• Can you propel us to new heights of creative thinking?
• Are you ready to translate user needs into excellent UI & UX design?
• Can you support others to level up their design skills?
• Do you love breakfast pastries and copious amounts of tea?

Yeah? Amazing! Come and join Mettle’s dream team as our new Designer.

About us

We believe great ideas deserve to be made. Going further than just ideas, we deliver real impact through the creation of beautiful digital and physical products. You will join a multidisciplinary team of designers, developers, engineers, and researchers united by their desire to make a difference.

We drive innovation across a diverse range of industries: from fem-tech ventures improving health outcomes for women; to digital tools for the civil infrastructure industry and improving digital storytelling in the climate-tech space. We’ve also designed our own award-winning bike lights! With an exciting pipeline of projects ahead, the Mettle team is expanding and looking for talented new team members who are driven by a desire to make a real, long-lasting impact. And have fun whilst doing so!

We are committed to making Mettle a joyful place to work where everyone feels comfortable to be themselves. We believe in flexible hybrid working, a healthy work-life balance, and supporting everyone to reach their full potential.

The Role

As a Designer, you will:

• Support the development of large scale digital design systems
• Support the team in bringing visionary work and 'north star' concepts to life
• Collaborate with the wider team on deep-dive UX and UI design sprints: generating ideas, prototyping concepts, testing with users, and detailing designs
• Focus on creating effective, beautiful and feasible user flows, wireframes and detailed UI designs
• You will proactively engage with developers to consider the technical constraints that may affect your design work and work closely with Mettle’s and clients’ software development teams to bring products to life
• Undertake user research and create outcomes that fulfil users’ needs
• Support continuous improvement to processes both within Mettle and beyond
• Keep up-to-date with product and industry trends
• Support pitches and proposals for new business development
• Support communication and relationship building with clients and partners

Skills & Experience

You will have:

• A great portfolio of work that showcases your skills and experience in digital, UI and/or UX design; as well as any complementary technical or creative skills
• 2–3 years of experience; ideally within the design of digital products
• An appreciation of the entire product development process: from understanding user needs & pains and mapping out user journeys through to delivering detailed UI and visual designs ready for development
• A good ability to navigate complexity and engage with technical detail
• Great levels of attention-to-detail
• Great proficiency in digital design & prototyping software (we love Figma!)
• Strong visual, verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team including product managers and software developers
• Experience understanding and working with comprehensive UI design systems
• A strong desire to improve your skills and learn new tools and processes

It’s nice to have:

• Experience in workshop and Design Sprint facilitation
• Familiarity with front-end development languages or frameworks (such as HTML/CSS/JS, React, Django)
• Experience in no-code development (such as Webflow)

Pay & Benefits

This role pays an annual salary of £25,000 – £45,000 based on experience, plus a profit-sharing bonus scheme.

Life at Mettle

We recognise the importance of caring for our minds, bodies and our collective wellbeing. We provide access to professional support including an Employee Assistance Programme and a trained Mental Health First Aider should you ever find yourself in need. We also provide an annual personal wellbeing budget to each member of the team.

We have a flexible approach to remote working – from fully-remote to fully-office-based (in Somerset House, London) or anything in between. Our collaborative working hours are 0930 – 1630 GMT with flexibility on when you spend the rest of your time.

We offer 25 days annual leave and we are also closed between Christmas and New Year. There is an annual company team-building trip and we host several social events throughout the year to have fun and pursue passions. We are also committed to investing in your training and development: we provide a personal development budget of £500 each year, plus a plan tailored to each individual.