About the job
Our software solutions connect businesses and consumers, powering more than half of all UK housing transactions each year. We deliver a one-stop shop for estate agents and home builders to drive efficiencies, speed up the transaction while reducing risk, improve end-customer experiences, stay ahead of regulatory changes and unlock new areas for business growth.
We are looking for a Junior Product Designer to join a cross-functional team working on our SaaS CRM solution (https://www.altosoftware.co.uk/) underpinning how real estate professionals run their businesses.
What You'll Be Doing
You'll be discovering and solving customer problems by working collaboratively in a cross-functional team
Participating in workshops, ideation sessions and design sprints
Creating prototypes and other effective forms of lean testing/learning
Following up your product experiments with further research and studying the numbers to extract maximum learning
Conducting various forms of user research
Immersing yourself in our product, understanding and designing user journeys, information architecture and business logic
Utilising UX principles and design standards
Regularly collaborating with the wider design team to produce a cohesive, best-in-class user experience
You'll call on your rapidly developing Figma skills to realise UI designs in conjunction with a Design System approach and shipping with iterations in mind to move the solutions forward
Who We're Looking For
You're creative and have had graphic/user interface design training
You're open and hungry to learn from a team of more experienced designers
You've worked on SaaS products before and you love making complex tools a breeze to use
You have a data informed mindset and are comfortable generating hypotheses for testing and learning
You'll need to bring a passion for your craft. From designing structures and flows to detailed interactions and beautiful interfaces
You love building empathy with our customers through research in order to deeply understand them and their needs
You love working with other designers and being an active part of user-focused design cultures
Ideally: Familiarity with the real estate market
Why Alto Software Group
We're serious about design but we don't take ourselves too seriously We want to build small, collaborative, cross-functional teams that push each other to create elegant, simple solutions to difficult customer problems No matter what the role we want everyone to be obsessed with getting inside the minds of our customers
How do you know we're the best place for you?
You strive to set the standard and are always looking to raise the bar and want to be surrounded by others who do so as well You enjoy knowing your customer You want to build things together, collaboratively with your team You want to own it; to have ownership and accountability for the outcomes of your effort You value sharing and committing to discussions and debates with your teammates And if you want to come help us re-imagine an industry
Benefits
Everyday Flex - greater flexibility over where and when you work
25 days annual leave + extra days for years of service
Day off for volunteering & Digital detox day
Festive Closure - business closed for period between Christmas and New Year
Cycle to work and electric car schemes
Free Calm App membership
Enhanced Parental leave
Fertility Treatment Financial Support
Group Income Protection and private medical insurance
Gym on-site in London
7.5% pension contribution by the company
Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary
Talent referral bonus up to £5K
We want to make Houseful more welcoming, fair and representative every day. We'll consider everyone who applies for this role in the same way, regardless of your ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, neurodiversity status, family or parental status, or how long you've spent unemployed.