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.
Our Values
🪴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. 📣
Location
📍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.
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.
Benefits
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
Who we are ⚡
We believe in transparency for candidates and true respect for privacy in background checkin
Our story We believe in a fairer, more transparent process. One which is quick, easy, and productive for every party. A process enabling candidates to own their data, and companies to access the unbiased insights they need. Zinc’s founding team have spent years in recruitment, talent, and HRTech. We saw a field plagued with inefficiency, prejudice and a lack of transparency. We first sought to solve the burden of referencing, then sought to tackle the broader category of background checking.