Senior Product Designer in London

Location: Very flexible - we’re happy for folks to work WFH and lots of us do. We only ask that you come into our London office a couple of times a month for team strategy days and socials - but of course, you’re more than welcome to come in as much as you like! (+ we’re working a 4 day work week - Fridays off!)

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £65,000 - £72,500 + benefits listed below

About Cuvva

We’re on a mission to give everyone affordable access to a car anytime, anywhere. We offer short-term car insurance through our world-class app, creating truly flexible products that meet people’s real needs. Using lightning-fast technology to unlock better experiences and fairer prices for our customers, Cuvva is building the future of insurance every day.

Our Product teams

At Cuvva, we run lean and highly collaborative, cross-functional product teams. As our new Senior Product Designer, reporting to Product Leadership, you’ll initially join our internal product incubator squad which focuses on exploring and developing new product opportunities for the business. The team operates with a fast pace and values autonomy and action, balancing discovery, delivery and is well suited to designers who are comfortable working through ambiguity, testing ideas quickly and learning through iteration.

Each product team owns their area of the Cuvva product end to end, with a high degree of autonomy & accountability. Teams are made up of a Product Designer, cross-disciplinary engineers, dedicated Product & Engineering Managers. At Cuvva, people come from a wide range of backgrounds & bring different but complementary skill sets. Within Product, you’re not required to have a university degree, many of us are self-taught.

Our Design tool kit

• Design: Figma.
• Prototyping: Figma Make, v0
• Research & insight generation: Perplexity, Claude/ChatGPT, UserTesting, Typeform.
• Collaboration: Notion, Shortcut, Miro, FigJam, Slack, Google Meet.
• Eng collaboration & Handoff: Figma Dev Mode alongside proactive conversations.
• Data: Mixpanel/Looker

About the role

As a Senior Product Designer at Cuvva, you’ll own & shape the end-to-end design process within your product area, from problem discovery & hypothesis setting, through to prototyping & validation, to delivery, measurement & iteration. You’ll collaborate closely with Product Managers, fellow Designers & Engineers to craft thoughtful, data-informed user experiences that balance customer needs with commercial impact.

You’ll design & prototype high-quality UI solutions, contribute to our design system & use research, analytics & experimentation to continuously improve our products. Your work will directly influence the direction of your product area within the Cuvva platform, ensuring experiences are accessible, inclusive & built to scale.

At Cuvva, we care deeply about building well-crafted experiences. In this role, you’ll bring strong design judgement, a customer‐centric mindset & the confidence to challenge thinking where needed, helping your team solve real problems through research, collaboration + iteration.

Partnership is central to how we work. You’ll operate as a true partner to Product Managers & Engineering, fostering a constructive & open environment where design is a shared responsibility & a driver of meaningful outcomes.

In this role, a passion for your craft is essential, alongside the ability to balance creativity with commercial outcomes. You’ll bring a strategic mindset, quickly building context while making informed design challenges that help your team think differently & make better decisions.

On a day‐to‐day basis you’ll:

• Own the full design process
• Frame problems clearly, aligning on user needs, constraints & what success looks like.
• Explore early solution directions through sketches, wireframes & lightweight prototypes.
• Validate ideas through research & testing, iterating based on evidence + feedback.
• Run post‐release reviews, analysing user behaviour, qualitative feedback & key metrics to inform what to do next.
• Plan & deliver iterative improvements based on insight, experimentation & changing user needs.
• Excel with a broad remit
• Work pragmatically, knowing when to move quickly on simple problems and when to go deeper on more complex ones.
• Design, prototype, and document high‐quality UI solutions across mobile and web, maintaining consistency and craft.
• Partner closely with Engineers throughout delivery to ensure smooth handover and high‐quality implementation.
• Contribute to and evolve the design system as the product grows.
• Use research, experimentation, and analytics to inform decisions, validate outcomes, and iterate.
• Champion accessibility and inclusive design across everything you build.
• Actively contribute to the Design community through critiques, feedback sessions, and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate openly with other Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to raise the quality of work and decision-making.
• Promote design best practices and continuous learning across teams.
• Lean into AI
• Use AI tools to accelerate discovery, synthesis, prototyping, and content creation where they meaningfully improve quality and speed.
• Leverage tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI‐assisted prototyping tools (e.g. bolt.new, v0) to explore, validate, and communicate ideas.
• Stay curious and experiment thoughtfully with emerging AI design tools to improve your workflow.

You’ll do great here if you have:

• Proven experience owning end‐to‐end Product Design, within a product‐led environment.
• Strong experience using AI tools, with enthusiasm for integrating AI into design workflows for research, prototyping & creative exploration.
• A collaborative mindset, working closely with fellow Designers, Product Managers & Engineers, recognising that great design is as much about communication + teamwork as it is about craft.
• Experience designing for mobile platforms (iOS & Android), with a great understanding of Apple Human Interface Guidelines & Material Design.
• High proficiency in Figma, including Design Systems, prototyping & developer handoff.
• A solid grasp of UX research methodologies, with the ability to synthesise qualitative data into actionable insights.
• A great mindset of continuous learning, keeping up with the latest trends in UX, UI & interaction design.

It’s a bonus if you:

• Have worked in a startup, scaleup or design agency/product studio environment, where high‐impact & quality work is measured in days/weeks, rather than months/years.
• Have a working understanding of front‐end development (e.g., understanding how your designs translate into code).
• Are familiar with behavioural design & gamification principles to drive engagement.
• Have experience with motion design or micro‐interactions to create delightful user experiences.
• Have worked with design tokens & contributed to maintaining a scalable design system.
• Have worked on consumer facing (B2C) products.

Benefits:

• Very flexible WFH set up, we only ask folks to come in a couple of times a month for team strategy days and socials - but of course, you’re more than welcome to come in as much as you like!
• A four day work week (Fridays off!)
• Transparent salary model and bands for all roles (without sharing anyone's individual salary of course!)
• 20.5 days of holiday a year + public holidays - rising with each year at Cuvva (holidays have been prorated based on our 4DWW)
• Quarterly team socials and company events
• Private medical insurance with Bupa
• Professional development budget
• Health, WFH and wellbeing budget
• Increases to all allowances year on year
• Enhanced parental leave and pay
• Cycle to work scheme
• Mental Health and Coaching Support - We offer free and confidential access to comprehensive mental healthcare and coaching through Oliva.
• Hundreds of perks and discounts with Perkbox
• £100 a month towards your Cuvva car insurance
• Referral bonus when you bring your friends to join the Cuvva team

The hiring process:

As it’s the end of year, our team will be offline over the holidays. We’ll review and process applications from Tuesday 6 January 2026, with the aim of being in touch later that week. Thanks for your patience and happy holidays.

Initial chat with People team (40 mins)

Technical interview with Design peers & Product Leadership (90m)

Founders chat with our CEO & Founder, Freddy (20m)

Referrals:

Know someone who could be right for this job? We’d love to hear from them, please drop us a note at jobs@cuvva.com to let us know who you’ll be referring and for which role. If they get the job, you will receive an Apple Watch!

Cuvva ways of working:

We’re dedicated to creating a place where people want to work, a place where people believe in what they’re doing, have clear expectations and a bunch of freedom. Our approach to hybrid working is very flexible: we only ask people to come a couple of times a month for team building or company events. The rest of time it’s up to you where and how you work. You can of course come into the office as much as you like!

Diversity, inclusion and belonging at Cuvva:

At Cuvva, we’re dedicated to building an environment where individuals from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging and have the support they need to thrive. To us, it’s crucial that our differences are embraced and celebrated - and that you’re able to bring your whole self to work every day.

Research shows that men apply to jobs if they meet ~60% of criteria, but women and those in traditionally underrepresented groups tend to apply only if they check all the boxes. If you think you have what it takes but don’t meet every single point above, please still get in touch. We’d love to chat and see if you could be a great fit.