Mid-weight Product Designer

Purpose

We’re a people first company that truly believes in a human centred approach in everything we do. Founded by Tom Scott and Lauren Kelly, The Fearless Group consists of three companies that work together to build and scale design teams:

• Fearless Talent - Design specialist talent consultancy
• Fierce - End to end design combining experience with the shiny
• The Fearless Community - A global network of designers driving change and innovation
  

Our mission: To design a better world

We apply our mission to all of our daily interactions with candidates, clients and teams and treat it as a philosophy and work ethic with everything that we do.

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Fierce

At Fierce we’re committed to driving outcomes that are both achievable and meaningful for our clients and their customers. We do this day-in and day-out for some of the world’s most valuable brands, applying our craft and experience to a wide range of contexts, most often those that are complex, risky, ambiguous or a combination of all three.

We’re growing at a rapid pace, maturing from startup to scale-up, without losing sight of what’s made us special from the start – our people, our values, our dedication to quality and our ability to learn and grow as a team.

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The Role

We are looking for a Product Designer to join our team, supporting the delivery of complex projects as a key member of the Fierce Product Design team. You should be comfortable pairing with design leads in supporting client facing design activities. We design in the open and you need to be able to demonstrate experience with synthesising and presenting your findings, articulating your design rationale throughout the product lifecycle to help take stakeholders on a journey through design.

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A practitioner of design thinking able to synthesis qualitative and quantitative research, user flows, journey mapping, behavioural segments, Information Architecture, whilst having robust understanding of UI best practice. These skills might include, visual design, high fidelity prototyping, visual identity, and interaction design.

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Responsibilities 

• Supporting a team of designers on large and small scale projects from concept to completion, collaborating with cross-functional partners and designers from our company, the clients company and other agencies.
• Utilising the Fierce’s Product Design processes, playbooks, principles & best practices setting the delivery standard across the team
• Live our values and lead by example.
• Play a key role in representing Fierce and support the Fearless Community team and members whether through engaging in daily conversations, participating in events or something else that takes your fancy.

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Requirements & skills

• Be a strong communicator and storyteller to help align and empower the team and your stakeholders.
• Be able to iteratively plan and produce strong outputs including wireframes, user flows, low and high fidelity prototypes, product/project roadmaps, design systems, usability testing and more, methods for both B2B and B2C environments with minimal support.
• Comfort in supporting the team with creating end to end designs; from strategy to launch and optimisation whilst collaborating within cross functional teams and supporting agile ways of working, whether iterating against ongoing product roadmaps or launching MVP and Beta products.
• Have a portfolio or deck to showcase your work.
• Demonstrated capabilities, working in collaborative enterprise or agency environments and with clients in different geographies.
• Experience with, supporting design thinking style workshops.
• Strong understanding of design tools i.e. Figma, Sketch & Adobe Creative Suite. Additional prototyping tools would be a bonus!
• Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, agile development practices and software engineering delivery.
  

Location

At Fierce we’ve been working remotely for the past year, embracing location flexibility fully. We’ve opened our office in London, while continuing to explore how a hybrid working environment can work. We currently expect our team to be working in the office 3 days a week.

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Salary: £35,000 to £55,000

Benefits

• Flexible working hours and locations where needed. 
• 3% employer contribution to your pension
• Annual training and access to conferences
• Private healthcare
  

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Diversity

No matter who you are, where you’re from, who you love, follow in faith, disability (or superpower) status, ethnicity or the gender you identify with, you're welcome at Fearless. If you have any requests or requirements to support you throughout any part of the interview process or thereafter, please do let us know!