We are looking for a Product Designer to join our talented team to help our clients design meaningful experiences for their audiences.
About Us
Potato is a digital product specialist within the AKQA Group network (WPP), headquartered in London.
We have over a decade of experience designing, developing, and launching web apps, mobile apps, games and more for businesses that demand quality at speed, including Google, Spotify and Vodafone.
We believe that quality is the fastest path to success. Whether it’s launching, fixing or scaling a product we live by three principles to deliver work that’s right first time: we champion the product strategy to keep everyone excited and aligned; we test and learn throughout to save our clients time, money and effort; and we create solid foundations to set them up for future success. We call this quality at speed.
Everything we do, from the briefs we crack to the innovative solutions we develop, it’s all born out of a truly great studio. One that’s free from ego, packed with creative mojo, and topped off with a collaborative spirit.
To find out more about our culture visit https://p.ota.to/culture/
About the Role
Our purpose in the Design team is to help our clients design meaningful experiences for their audiences. We do that by:
Combining our expertise with experimentation, to balance user needs, best practices & innovation.
Co-creating and continuously learning, to design with empathy, insight and confidence.
Supporting, challenging and learning as a community, to accelerate our professional growth.
As a Product Designer, you'll join our dynamic team to deliver high-quality design solutions on projects while growing your expertise in both Visual Design and Experience Design, under the guidance of a senior practitioner. You'll play a vital role in crafting thoughtful design deliverables, contributing to our commitment to creating purposeful, human-centred products.
Responsibilities
Deliver thoughtful design deliverables and artefacts for client projects with support and oversight from a senior practitioner, including wireframes, user flows, UI, visual assets and prototypes.
Independently execute design tasks within your scope.
Present your work and rationale to the project team and clients when appropriate, articulating how designs meet business, user, and technical requirements.
Participate in collaborative design processes, contributing to activities such as workshops, sketching sessions, persona development, and customer journey mapping.
Translate solutions into tangible design artefacts using common design patterns, established brand guidelines, and service flows.
Generate multiple design solutions and select the most suitable option based on user-focused rationale, ensuring usability, accessibility, and consistency.
Work closely with other designers, developers, product managers and stakeholders to refine and iterate on design solutions.
Utilise tools like Figma and Miro for design creation and collaboration.
Collaborate with your line manager to define and set career goals aligned with your aspirations.
Utilise Learning & Development time to proactively seek opportunities for personal and career growth.
Actively participate in Design Community activities and initiatives, to support the vision and growth of the community.
Contribute to internal projects and initiatives, to further develop your capabilities.
About You
You're a detail-oriented designer with a passion for creating user-centred design solutions. You excel at taking solutions to a problem and translating them using common design patterns, established brand guideline components, or common service flows. You thrive in collaborative environments, generating multiple solutions and choosing the most appropriate based on a user-focused rationale. The design artefacts you supply are usable, accessible, and consistent down to the letter, fact, and pixel. Your ability to adapt to various design challenges and your eagerness to learn and grow make you an ideal candidate for our Product Designer role.
Your earnest and inquisitive approach to collaboration reflects our value of curiosity, driving you to seek innovative solutions to challenges.
You thrive in supportive working environments, prioritising the well-being of your colleagues, in line with our people-focused culture.
Your appreciation for diverse perspectives and authenticity fosters an inclusive atmosphere, elevating our work and culture.
You believe in the purposeful nature of design, striving to improve people’s lives through user-centred products that make a real difference.
You're committed to continual growth, always seeking opportunities to improve your craft and yourself, aligning with our value of always growing.
Clients can depend on you to deliver on your promises, reflecting our value of reliability.
You Should Have
A portfolio showcasing your design thinking skills and previous projects (this can include client project work/student work/bootcamp work/self-initiated projects).
Experience in creating UX design artefacts and/or high-fidelity designs.
Collaborated with other designers and/or developers in previous projects.
An understanding of design systems, brand guidelines, user flows, and wireframing.
Confidence in sharing design rationale with team members.
Experience in Figma, Miro or similar design tools.
Eagerness to learn and grow.
Ideally Also
Understanding of web/mobile technologies.
Examples of visual assets such as illustrations, iconography and pictograms.
Experience with Agile, Sprints, and Lean UX methodologies.
Familiarity with research methods and designing with available insights.
Ability to communicate rationale that considers business, user, and technical requirements.
Experience in combining new and existing components of a design system.
Previous employment as a Designer in an established Design team.
We know that no candidate will be the exact match for all we’ve listed, so we would encourage you to apply if you feel you might be close but not a perfect match for all of the role’s requirements.
What We Offer
We work hard to be a great employer - a place where our people are proud to work. In 2021, we were officially recognised as a Best Company to Work For, named within the Top 100 Best Small Companies to Work For.
Here are some of the benefits we offer:
Flexi leave (within reason), plus Birthday Off
Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
Paid Parental Bereavement leave
Volunteering Days
Flexible benefits package (cash sum per month)
Private medical and dental insurance
Enhanced competitive pension scheme
Annual learning budget
A financial contribution to a tech purchase
Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
Employee Assistance Programmes
Occupational Sick Pay
Life Assurance
Income Protection Insurance
What Happens Next
If this role and Potato sounds like a good fit please apply and someone from our People Team will be in touch shortly.
Inclusivity
We want to make our hiring as inclusive as possible; this job description has been reviewed by a range of employees and has passed a neutral language check. We have also reviewed our hiring process to make sure it offers flexibility to candidates who need it.
We welcome you to inform us confidentially at [email protected] if you require any accommodations to be able to fully participate in our recruitment process.
We're trying to do better and would love your feedback. If you think there's anything we could improve or places you think we should advertise, then please let us know.
Location
Our office is based in London and we anticipate this role to be hybrid with a mixture of remote and office-based work. We currently do not mandate a number of days in the office and are flexible as to when you choose to work remotely vs in the office.