Lead Product Designer

The role

The Lead Product Designer will own design at Spruce, setting direction and standards across the product. You will perform hands-on design for complex flows, collaborate with developers, and conduct user research with installers on site.

What you will do

• Setting the design direction and standards across the product
• Building the design practice including critique, tooling, and rituals
• Working alongside two product designers
• Taking gnarliest flows end to end including desktop tools, homeowner outputs, enquiry flows, and mobile survey apps
• Collaborating closely with developers
• Shipping PRs yourself when it makes sense
• Researching and validating by spending time with installers on site
• Building quick prototypes to test decisions

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of product/UI design experience
• Experience as the most senior designer on a product or team
• Exceptional craft with a high bar for UI execution
• Strong design opinions
• Systematic thinker who enjoys technical detail
• Experience running research with real customers
• Proactive and self-organising

Nice to have

• Experience in a startup or a fast-moving, impact-focussed environment
• Worked on tools for field teams
• Worked on tools for low-tech users
• Worked on operational workflows

Benefits

• Meaningful slice of equity (options)
• 33 days holiday
• Opportunity to work from abroad for another 30 days each year
• Private Medical Cover
• Workplace Nursery Benefit scheme
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Cycle to Work scheme

About the company

Spruce is building a platform for heat pump installers to manage the installation journey. The company aims to make it easier and more profitable to run and grow a renewables installation business.