Description
Life at Elvie – Meaningful work. Exceptional people
We develop extraordinary and smart technologies designed to improve the lives of women. It’s a fascinating and challenging area that requires us to solve the problems that no one else has ever tackled before.
Our first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected trainer that helps women strengthen their pelvic floor muscle via fun, five-minute workouts. It took the wellness industry by storm and is now available via the NHS Supply Chain. Our street cred is backed up by more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious Red Dot Award and an IDA Design Award.
Our second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent hands-free, wearable breast pump, has received international praise, including being listed as one of the Times 100 best inventions in 2019 and ‘wearable design of the year’ at the Dezeen Awards.
Elvie has received more than 30 awards, including being named one of 15 startups “To Watch” by The Sunday Times and ranked as the 6th fastest growing business in the UK by SyndicateRoom in 2019. Tania Boler has recently been rated as the 8th most influential person shaping british technology in 2019 by Business Insider and both products have been featured in the Oscar Nominee Gift Bags. In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B, the largest ever fundraise in Femtech.
How do we like to work?
You will be surrounded by people who want to improve everything and everyone around them. People who are passionate about our mission. People who are driven to solve tough problems and constantly consider the best ways to improve the health and wellbeing of women.
We’re deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive:
- We’re fearless – We tackle taboos and break boundaries, requiring sensitivity and courage.
- We’re innovators – We are passionate, curious and data-driven. We are constantly learning how to work smarter, faster and better. Always embracing change and innovation.
- We’re in it together – Together, we are constantly learning, embracing change and seeking innovation, whilst having fun along the way. We stay authentic and embrace our differences.
What you will be working on
- We put our users at the centre of everything that we do. We believe that compelling and intuitive UI design for products is done best by designers that understand user experience. Creating an experience that makes sense to the user and visually communicating that experience are very interdependent. Sometimes it’s the small interactions that bring the magic and those happen at the crossroads of UI and UX.
- Day to day you will focus on our products to ensure that they engage, excite and encourage our users. You will work in our Product teams alongside Product Managers, Engineers and Data Scientists, crafting the visual design of the UI having helped develop the UX with other Designers.
Who you are
- You’re a UI designer with experience designing mobile apps and websites which deliver successful business and customer outcomes.
- You’re an empathetic creative with a passion for design and storytelling. You want to work on products which make a difference to people’s lives.
- You love crafting user interfaces and have exceptional visual design and conceptual skills.
- You understand how to tailor designs for different audiences using color, typography and layout whilst maintaining brand consistency.
- You have a thorough understanding of designing interactions to support user behaviors and goals from visual hierarchy through to transitions and animations.
- You are data informed and use data and insights from customer feedback to iterate designs.
- You are versed in design-systems with demonstrable experience of maintaining and improving pattern libraries, design principles and specifications.
- You enjoy working collaboratively with UX designers, product managers and other disciplines to problem-solve. You possess the ability to translate business problems into creative and compelling experiences and visual solutions.
- You have experience of working with engineers specifying design guidelines, css styles and interactions for smooth implementation.
- The idea of working within a high growth startup in a fast-paced hands-on role excites you
What you will do
Design cutting edge connected products
- As a UI designer at Elvie, you will work with our Product teams on innovative connected products, mobile apps and web projects.
- Working alongside a UX designer you’ll iterate on our existing digital products as well as sketching and prototyping the experience for new products and product features.
- Create visual designs for simple, effective interfaces.
- Help maintain and extend our design system including interaction patterns.
- Work effectively with the software engineering team to hand over design specifications from style guidelines through to interaction detail.
- You will work in an environment where developing first-class solutions in an enjoyable atmosphere is the goal.
Requirements
- 5 years commercial experience of user centred digital product design
- A passion for design and immersing yourself in the latest digital design patterns
- A portfolio demonstrating your app and web experience (please provide with your application)
- Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate the rationale behind your design decisions and influence key stakeholders
- An eye for detail and consistency
- Experience of prototyping
- Willingness to learn new prototyping technologies as they emerge and improve design processes within the design team and throughout the business
- Mastery of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (esp. Photoshop/Illustrator)
Other skills and experience you might have
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- Animation capabilities
- Experience of Figma
- Experience of Adobe Creative Suite (esp. Photoshop/Illustrator)
- An understanding of accessibility
- Experience of design sprints
- A degree in a creative, design focused discipline is a plus
Note: you must have the right to work in the UK to apply for this role
Benefits
Elvie is at the crest of a wave! Founded by women’s health expert Tania Boler and tech entrepreneur Alex Asseily, Elvie is a collection of bright and motivated team members working across the business to shape the emerging femtech industry.
We are passionate about creating disruptive products that address the challenges that matter most to women and dismantling the taboos around women’s bodies. Here, you can be part of a business and brand that has a positive and meaningful impact on the world, while learning a great deal and having fun.
What are some of the perks of working at Elvie?
We are looking after you. As well as the chance to develop products with real work impact and working with dedicated and passionate colleagues, our benefits have flexibility and wellbeing in mind with
- Great work environment – regular company socials, free daily snacks
- Flexible work environment built on trust and autonomy
- Enjoy employee / friends & family discounts on Elvie products
- Annual personal development allowance & unlimited access to our learning & development platform
- A tax-efficient group pension scheme with SmartPension
- A tax-efficient charity donation scheme
- Life Insurance with Yulife
- Medical, Dental & Optical cash-plan with WPA
- Employee Assistance Program for you and your family
- Generous employee referral program
- Cycle Scheme & Tech Scheme
- YuLife Well-being app & access to SmartHealth app with unlimited GP appointments for you and your family, plus various well-being initiatives throughout the year
At Elvie, we believe in having diverse teams in which everyone can be their authentic self is key to our success. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply and we don’t discriminate based on race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, marital status, disability or age. We are a family-friendly employer with a culture based on trust, autonomy and flexibility, and are working on making our offices wheelchair friendly and breastfeeding friendly. We do our best to accommodate part-time requests and flexible requests as much as possible. We are also a member of UK Tech Talent Charter and proudly working in partnership with myGwork and Women’s tech hub.