Senior Product Designer

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 💼

This role is for a Product Designer who is excited to join an innovative, fast-paced team as a Senior Product Designer, taking full ownership of design solutions. This position is perfect if you’re ready to lead the design process from research to launch, collaborating closely with product managers and engineers in a strategic role that blends creativity with impactful product development.

• Lead Feature Research: Conduct user research, competitive analysis, and data gathering to deeply understand our users' needs and shape new features. 🔍
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with product managers and engineers to ideate and build innovative features that align with business goals. 🤝
• Drive the Full Design Process: Own the end-to-end design journey, from concept to launch, ensuring each step is intentional and impactful. 🖌️
• Design with Agility: Zinc moves fast, and so will you! Be ready to iterate on designs and deliver quick, high-quality iterations. 🚀
• Communicate Design Decisions: Present your design rationale clearly and confidently, exploring multiple solutions and adapting based on feedback. 📣

📍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 🛠️

Customer Research Expertise
To uncover real user needs and ensure designs solve the right problems.
To quickly and efficiently produce designs that bring ideas to life.
User Journey Mapping
To create experiences that help users smoothly achieve their goals.
High fidelity designs 🧑🏻‍🎨

To contribute to product strategy and direction through designs.
Prototyping 🧠
To contribute to Zinc’s product strategy by translating insights into thoughtful, user-centered designs quickly and efficiently.

You Are 🧩

Pragmatic
To balance creativity with practicality, adapting designs to tight timelines and evolving requirements.

Empathetic 👥
To understand and champion user needs and work collaboratively with colleagues, ensuring a seamless experience for both users and team members.

Autonomous
To confidently own and drive the design process from start to finish, taking the lead within your tech unit.

Communicative 💬
To facilitate workshops, lead discovery sessions, and clearly convey design rationale to cross-functional partners and stakeholders.

Interview Process 🤩⚡️💎

⚖️ Throughout the interview process, you will be assessed directly inline with the requirements above.

1. One-sided video interview with an introduction from Jess, Design Lead. (15 mins) (**Please keep an eye out for this in your junk inbox**)

2. Phone call with Bel, Talent Lead (5 minutes)

3. Interview with Joe, Senior Product Designer & Gabi, Senior Product Manager (30mins)

⚡️⚡️⚡️Zinc Preview - Pre-final stage reference's with Zinc ⚡️⚡️⚡️

4. 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.

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