Product Designer

At SimplyCook, we’re on a mission to bring joy back to mealtimes by helping busy people cook delicious, flavour-packed meals at home – without the hassle. Backed by Nestlé and loved by hundreds of thousands of home cooks across the UK, we're scaling fast and looking for exceptional talent to help us grow.

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.

Your mission:

• Lead on our digital design, contributing to the future vision for this area and ensuring our users have a cohesive and consistent experience across the whole platform.
• Work as part of a cross-functional product squad, 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 by regularly speaking and interacting with our passionate users to 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 with Product Managers, Developers, Data Analysts and other Product Designers to leverage their input throughout the design process.
• Advocate for and implement intuitive and accessible user experiences, balancing the ideal user experience with technical constraints, delivery strategy and business risk.
• Help improve how design operates at SimplyCook, contributing to improving our design team as a whole.

Your profile:

• You’ve led the design of externally-facing web and mobile applications in a fast-growing company before.
• 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.

Why SimplyCook?

• Free SimplyCook Subscription – Enjoy a completely free subscription to our recipe kits.
• Remote/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).
• Great Office Perks – Free meals and snacks, a dog-friendly workspace, fresh herbs to take home, free parking, and access to a gym.
• Help Taste in the Kitchen – Get involved in weekly food tastings, contribute feedback, and try out delicious new recipes.
• Summer Hours – From June to August, we finish early on Fridays (3 PM).
• Cycle to Work Scheme – Save money and stay active with our salary-sacrifice scheme for bikes and equipment.
• Enhanced Parental Leave – We support growing families with enhanced parental leave.

At SimplyCook we want to get Britain cooking! 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.
• 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 designed to provide perfect taste containing ingredient blends devised by professional chefs.