About Save My Exams
Save My Exams is an online education platform dedicated to helping students achieve better grades in their exams. We support millions of students, tutors and teachers all over the world by making studying easier and more enjoyable.
We launched our platform in 2017 and since then we have grown to over 75,000 paying subscribers. Our growth has been driven by an exceptional product that our users love, which is why we get reviews like this:
“In my graduation speech, I’m saying thank you to Save My Exams for teaching me the things my teachers didn’t!”
We are immensely proud to have helped so many students at such an important point in their lives and we are super excited to continue finding new and innovative ways to help them further.
The Role
This role is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing, profitable Edtech company and shape an industry-leading product that students, parents, and teachers love. In a few short years, Save My Exams has grown to over 75,000 subscribers by building an exceptional product that helps users achieve better grades.
As our Mid to Senior Product Designer, you will be working closely with our Lead Product Designer, and be responsible for gathering and translating user insights into delightful experiences. Ultimately, you will create both functional and appealing beautiful features that address our customers’ needs.
This is the role for you if
You are passionate about education and are excited to be a part of a company that impacts millions of students all over the world
You are positive, proactive, and open-minded
You want to be challenged to create the best user experience & designs possible
You enjoy working in an empowered Product team that focuses on outcomes, not outputs
You take pride in the quality of your work and have exceptionally high attention to detail
You’re a team player, comfortable working with others and independently, holding yourself and others accountable
You embrace critical feedback and always seek opportunities to reflect on your performance
Your Responsibilities
Continuous discovery:
Weekly gathering of customer insights through 1:1 interviews, qualitative & quantitative surveys, and data analysis.
Using these insights to explore the problem space with an unwavering focus on high-impact outcomes.
Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
Design graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs and widgets
Build page navigation buttons and search fields
Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like
Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders
Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback
Adhere to style standards on fonts, colours and images
Hopefully, you will have some or all of the following
You know how to distil simplicity from complex user requirements
You know how to use the tools of the trade like Figma, Sketch, Invision, Marvel and Overflow
You have experience with user research and translating insights from research to your designs
You have great communication skills both when interfacing with customers as well as when working with your team
You are flexible, decisive and know how to put ego aside and focus on the needs of the customer
You can lead large and complex projects
You know how to define and prioritise problems to be tackled
Comfortable working in small cross-functional teams consisting of a Lead Product Designer, Lead Product Manager and Engineers
Located in the UK or EU region
Some extra skills and experiences that would be great:
Scale-up background, working for a fast-growing B2C brand
Benefits
Working for a fast-growing, bootstrapped education company is a rare opportunity to build a hugely impactful and sustainable business.
Our positions are challenging, but also come with amazing advantages and opportunities.
Here’s what we offer:
Competitive annual salary of £60,000 - £80,000 depending on experience & skills
28 days paid vacation (plus UK bank holidays)
Paid sabbatical - 28 days paid leave for every 3 years you work with SME (in addition to your annual holiday allowance)
Annual profit share bonus and stock options
£500 annual Learning & Development budget
Pension contribution
Equipment budget for equipment you might need to do your job brilliantly
Remote working: work from your home or wherever you want! We’re UK based but our team is spread out all over the world – UK, Portugal, Germany, South Africa and more.
Reasonable hours: we don’t expect (or want) you to spend every waking hour at work. We’re outcomes-oriented and want you to be able to operate at your peak for the long term.
Control over your time: Fully remote & flexible, but with regular company get togethers and away days
Impact: the opportunity to solve challenging and meaningful problems that make a real difference to the lives of millions of students and teachers.
Amazing team: we’re a diverse, talented and friendly group who love what we do.
The Process
If all of this sounds like what you would love to be doing, we can’t wait to hear from you! So that you know what to expect from us, our hiring process usually involves the following stages:
Application form
30 minute screening call with our Lead Product Designer
60-90 minute virtual onsite with another of our Senior Product Designers, one of our PMs and a Lead Developer
This will include a 20 minute presentation from you on some of your work which you are most proud of
Final chat with our VP of Growth or COO
We aim to review applications regularly, and you will hear from us within 3 weeks of submitting your application.