At Progression we're helping everyone to build better, more meaningful careers by letting teams define career paths and employees measure themselves against them.
We think HR software is fundamentally broken for employees and managers.
As an employee, not only do HR tools give you more work to do, but they rarely deliver real value back. The endless goals, performance reviews, surveys and learning and development blah blah blah. Honestly, just let me do my work. What's more — when you leave, *poof*. All your data is gone. No record of what you've accomplished, or the projects you've worked on.
Meanwhile as a manager, you have nothing to help. You're stuck with whatever the HR team bought because they knocked a dollar off the price. Oh, and spreadsheets. Endless spreadsheets.
This has to change. The tools we use to design and build our careers must do a better job for us.
That's where Progression comes in.
We've flipped the traditional approach to HR tech and we're starting with first principles. We believe if we build a tool that is a delight to use for employees and managers we can revolutionise the way organisations think about career and skill growth.
What we have today, we built with just the two of us (Jonny and Neil) from a tiny office, then socially distanced in our houses in East London with a puppy each.
But the opportunity here is huge. We're now well capitalised with a healthy seed round from top-tier UK and US investors and are now building a remote team of wonderful humans to help us with our vision to turn Progression into the definitive way for anyone to track their career.
We've been around the block a few times, and know how important it is to start with some principles.
About the role
We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to help us create intuitive, beautiful and powerful products to help everyone have the career they deserve. You'll be the first full-time designer at Progression so will have huge control over and responsibility for the quality of product and UI that we ship. A lot of what we're planning doesn't have a precedent in existing products so you'll be breaking new ground. You'll also help us get the basics right and will be pragmatic with speed vs quality where needed.
As our first designer you'll also be responsible for our marketing look and feel, creating marketing assets and working closely with future marketing folks on how we express ourselves visually and verbally.
You'll report into Jonny, our CEO, and work closely with both founders and the wider product team to create world-class products and be influential in deciding how we build the wider team to support them as we grow.
Your skillset and experience:
You'll have:
- At least 4 years experience building considered and intuitive interfaces for products as they scale
- Worked in cross-functional product teams at an early stage in a product's lifecycle
- Worked closely and pragmatically with engineers to find the perfect balance of consistency, delight and feasibility
- Examples of each of discovery and research, UX and scoping and UI work
- Excellent written english (as a remote company, we write a lot)
Your work will demonstrate:
- Above all, fantastically executed product decisions and UI
- A sense of ownership and autonomy over your work (you act like an owner)
- Thoughtfulness around end to end journeys and workflows, never just static screens
- A deep understanding of the user of any given product, with stories to back it up
- Consideration for what's possible, other constraints and what didn't work on the way
- Creativity around the solution space, but constraint where experiences don't have to be reinvented
If you happen to have any of the following, we'd love to see!
- A passion for our space — perhaps you already document your growth or have worked in a related field
- An ability to prototype using code
- A familiarity with no-code tools like Airtable, Zapier or Webflow
What you're getting into
You'll be the very first designer at Progression. That means you'll be shaping not only how we look as a business, but how we work too.
You'll have a great time if you want:
- To get in on the very ground floor of a new tech company
- Huge influence over all design across our current web app, marketing site and any future domains
- High level goals and a lot of freedom to run
- To move fast and ship quickly to our fast-growing customer-base
- To learn unfamiliar things quickly so you can unblock yourself
- To work on the most business critical projects, whatever they are
We may not be the right fit if you'd like to:
- Work in a large product team with lots of other designers
- Specialise in one aspect of the design process (for example design systems or prototyping)
- Work in an office!
What we'll do for you
We can't compete on salary with the really big folks, but we're doing everything we can to make you feel comfortable with what you're getting in return for believing in us.
That includes:
- A fair salary for our stage
- A healthy options package
- A good holiday allowance which we will expect you to use
- Remote flexibility — flexible hours, work from anywhere
- Remote benefits (e.g. a stipend towards coffee and a good chair — you tell us what you want!)
- Regular in-person working sessions and kick-offs whenever we need, once we're able to
- Off-sites and hangouts somewhere nice
- £1000/year for training, coaching or personal/professional support, and very regular career growth conversations (it's kind of what we do...)
Above all, you'll be joining a small, close-knit team where you'll get access to the first stages of a tech company's life. Whether that's meeting investors, being involved in core strategy or getting to see what a CEO does, you won't find a better opportunity to learn.
We're careful about how we hire
We really care about hiring thoughtfully and from all backgrounds (see our pledge). Whatever your race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability, we want to hear from you.
Thats not just hollow words. We're:
- Ensuring a fair and rigorous hiring process, whether we know you or not
- Doing everything we can to create a diverse candidate pool
- Ensuring diversity in our interview panel (i.e., not just us!)
If you aren't sure whether you tick all the boxes but you want to apply, please do! We'd love to meet you.