Lead Product Designer

About Fat Llama

Fat Llama is the platform that lets you rent out your belongings to others nearby. Everyday, we connect people who need things, with others in their neighborhood that have it to lend.

We believe in getting people to work together to make the world a more efficient place for everyone. So we’re making it quick and easy for people to share their belongings. Our dream is a platform where all goods - from the everyday to the abstract - can be borrowed within minutes.

Position

Your responsibilities will include

• Taking charge of our mobile design as we shift focus to moving users to the app
• Pushing the limit of our product experience – visually and in terms of logical, usable flows 
• Working closely with our founders as well as the product and engineering team on mobile execution and strategy
• Pairing with engineers to not just design but ship fantastic experiences
• Championing the user experience wherever possible, going out into the world and empathising

Your qualification

• Can demonstrate recent mobile app design work at scale, using modern design and prototyping tools (Think Sketch, Flinto, Framer etc.)
• Have at least 5 years of work experience in Product Design 
• Feels comfortable working with CSS and understands Frontend development processes
• Has experience running user research sessions and understand the key methodologies for conducting user research 
• Can demonstrate empathising with and championing user needs at the highest level
• Can demonstrate examples of solving business/user needs through design decision making
• Have mentored or trained more colleagues 
• Have worked iteratively with engineers, product managers, researchers and analysts to develop product strategy and process
• Are looking to build a product to be proud of, at a small company with a big future

What we offer

• Masses of autonomy - we move fast and trust everyone to do great work
•  The ability to craft both product design and process for the first time at a well funded high growth product
• A world-first mission to chase – we can change people’s relationship with stuff and reduce the clutter in the world 
• A friendly, casual work environment
• Office location in trendy Shoreditch, London
• Team lunches provided two days a week
• 36 days of holiday a year (28 days + Bank holidays)
• Relocation support, worldwide