Digital Product Designer

At SimplyCook our mission is to bring joy and exceptional flavour to millions of mealtimes globally, by making it easy for our customers to cook delicious and exciting meals at home. We’re a tech-enabled food subscription business delivering over 600,000 products a month to our customers all over the UK and we are growing quickly. Our core product is a monthly subscription box containing flavour kits (sauces, spices, pastes) and super simple recipe cards to make it quick and easy for customers to discover and cook new meals. This product is supported by Android and iOS apps - using the latest React Native framework - and our website. We’re backed by Nestlé who share our ambitious growth plans and vision.

We might be a relatively small team but we manage to punch well above our weight by being agile in our decision making, collaborative in how we work together and, most importantly, incredibly passionate about sharing our products with more and more people.

We’re looking for an experienced Product Designer to join one of our cross-functional product squads. This is a great opportunity to play a leading role in how our customers use and enjoy our product.

• Lead design across web & app. This includes contributing to the future vision for this area, making sure our users have a cohesive and consistent experience across the whole platform.
• Work as part of a cross-functional product squad. You’ll be responsible for the creation and user testing of all designs; from initial discovery and user journey mapping through to the final UI details.
• Be an expert on our users. Regularly speaking and interacting with our passionate users, you’ll learn about their needs, pain points and habits, ensuring everything we do addresses an opportunity to improve their experience.
• Collaborate using strong communication, documentation and facilitation skills. You’ll work closely with Product Managers, Developers, Data Analysts and other Product Designers to make sure their input is leveraged throughout the design process.
• Advocate for and implement intuitive and accessible user experiences. You’ll take a pragmatic approach to balancing the ideal user experience with technical constraints, delivery strategy and business risk.
• Help improve how design operates at SimplyCook. We’re a small but fast-growing team where design is a key role in every cross-functional squad. You’ll contribute to improving our design team as a whole.

• You’ve led the design of externally-facing web and mobile applications in a fast-growing company before.
• You’re comfortable working with data and insights to guide decisions, experienced in customer research methods, and use experimentation to inform product direction.
• You excel at taking a pragmatic approach to solving problems through great design, supported by data and always advocating for the best possible user experience.
• You care about sharing your knowledge and helping us build and improve our design system and practices at SimplyCook.
• You’re a creative thinker, able to reverse-engineer user problems and reason from first principles.
• You possess humility, optimism and a desire to learn and grow fast.

Here’s what you can look forward to as part of the SimplyCook team:

• Free SimplyCook Subscription - Enjoy a completely free subscription to our recipe kits. You can also grab kits from our office bookcase to take home anytime.
• Hybrid working - Thursday is our anchor day, and you have the flexibility to work from our beautiful Wandsworth office.
• 35 Days’ Holiday - You’ll get 35 days of holiday a year (including bank holidays), giving you plenty of time to rest and recharge.
• Great Office Perks - Free meals and snacks, a dog-friendly workspace, fresh herbs to take home, free parking, and access to a gym - all in our vibrant office space in London.
• Help Taste in the Kitchen - Get involved in weekly food tastings, contribute feedback, and try out delicious new recipes before anyone else.
• Summer Hours - From June to August, we finish early on Fridays (3PM) so you can make the most of summer.
• Cycle to Work and Home & Tech Schemes - Save money with our salary-sacrifice schemes.
• Enhanced Parental Leave - We support growing families with enhanced parental leave, because life’s biggest moments matter.

At SimplyCook we want to get Britain cooking! Despite our nation’s love of food, constant cooking shows on TV and a few too many celebrity chefs, most of us only have 6 meals or less in our repertoire. We want to change that by making cooking a simple and hassle free process without meaning bland and boring!

We want to achieve 3 things:

• We love flavour – we want your dinners to taste amazing.
• We want to save you money – our short shopping lists mean you don’t have to spend on 20 ingredients to cook a tasty new recipe and our meals work out between £2 and £6 per person in total.
• We want you to be in control – you can use our kits when you want, our recipes take around 20mins, and the items you have to add are easily accessible.

SimplyCook boxes contain 4 easy to follow recipes and 4 ingredient kits. Each kit is designed to provide perfect taste containing ingredient blends devised by professional chefs.