Senior Product Designer
We're putting together a talented team to build the #1 training platform for Runners
We help everyday runners become outstanding by providing world-class training, coaching and community for everyone, whether you're improving your 5k time or training for your first marathon. To date we have built iOS, Android and Apple watch apps that help people achieve their goals by coaching them through the full journey and syncing to their favourite fitness devices.
We’re growing extremely fast and in November 2023 closed a new £5M funding round led by JamJar with participation from Eka Ventures, Venrex and Creator Ventures. We want to grow as fast as we can into the future and are looking for individuals who will help us get there. For more about our background and growth check out our Careers Page!
We’re now looking ahead to the future and the people who want to help us build and scale Runna. Our aim is to reach millions of subscribers in the next 5 years and be the go-to training platform for any runner. Now is a magical time to join, we're still small, and everyone makes a foundational difference.
Who we’re looking for
We are looking for talented, creative and positive team players to join our highly-skilled Cross-Functional Product and Engineering Team to help design new features for our iOS, Android and Apple watch applications and third-party integrations (Garmin, Strava, Coros, Suunto etc). You will work closely with our founders, engineers, PM and most importantly customers, to help shape the future of Runna, who will be there to support you all the way along this exciting journey.
As a Senior Product Designer your role will to be involved in the full end-to-end product delivery from research to going live:
- Working with the whole team as well as our amazing customers to discover and prioritise user’s needs across their journey
- Conduct user testing sessions and incorporate feedback into your work
- Help improve Runna’s user research and user testing processes, working with the other designers and PMs
- Be a voice for Design within the company
- Work with Product and create solutions / customer journeys for complex design problems
- Illustrate design ideas using user flows, prototypes and wireframes in Figma
- Collaborate with developers to handover designs and ensure great interaction
- Continue to iterate and develop our design library in Figma
You will be reporting directly to Dom (Co-Founder and CEO). You’ll also be managing one of our incredible Product Designers based in New York 🇺🇸 and working closely with our amazing UI/UX Design Lead who’s based in London 🇬🇧.
We are continuing to hire out our design function in the US as part of our overall US expansion - we want designers that (1) really understand our target user and market (2) are able to effectively conduct user research with our target users, on their time zone and (3) understand and are users of our app, our partners, competitors and the wider US running industry. As such, we are currently only open to US-based applicants for this role!
Finally, Runna is growing incredibly quickly and we reinvest all of our profits into building a better product. As such the design team will be scaling quickly over the coming months and years and we’d expect you to play a pivotal role in this; from getting involved with hiring to helping set the design culture and practices!
What experience we’re looking for
If you don’t quite meet all of the below skills, we’d still love to hear from you as we might be able to tweak the role slightly or offer you a position better suited for you. You can apply directly using the link above or contact us if you’re still unsure. We’re also open to more senior and more junior candidates for this role.
Your key skills:
- 3+ years experience as a Product Designer including some experience with mobile design
- A design generalist; while you may have developed a specialism, you have a range of typography, layout and information visualisation skills
- Love speaking to users to understand needs, in order to solve problems as effectively as possible
- Partnering with product and growth to leverage quantitative data to solve problems
- Obsess over small details that take designs to the next level (e.g., perfect pixel alignment, interaction, animations)
- Great Figma & prototyping skills (e.g. asset libraries)
- Confident working with a cross-functional team in a fast-paced, iterative environment
- Confident facilitating and participating in workshops and discussions to promote the communication of ideas
- Have a public design portfolio / twitter
- Have mentored and/or line managed less senior designers
Bonus points if you:
- Have worked with consumer/start-up/mobile apps before
- Have worked with React Native teams before and understand the design implications
- Have worked on smartwatch interface design
- Have an interest or background in fitness, running or health
- Have spent hours reading case studies from https://growth.design/ 💌
Interview process
Our aim is to keep the interview process as straightforward and enjoyable as possible, and will consist of the following stages:
- Kick off! Please apply via workable here
- Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to better accommodate you throughout the interview process - this can be from scheduling interviews around childcare commitments to accessibility requirements. We want you to show your best self in the process ❤️
- Introductory chat with Dom / Nayth (30 minutes video call)
- Take home design task (~2-3 hour to complete)
- Design walkthrough and app critique with Dom and Alp (50 minutes video call - the first part will be used to discuss the design task from the previous stage and the second talking through an app that you know well)
- Whiteboard challenge with Dom and another PM (50 minutes video call)
- Meet the team (virtual or in-person chat with founder(s) and rest of the design and product team)
Once the process is finished, we promise to let you know our decision as soon as possible.
Benefits and options.
We offer a salary of $120,000 - $150,000 (depending on experience), plus equity of Runna stock options.
We'll be growing our package of benefits over time. We currently offer:
- Flexible working (we typically work 2-3 days in our office in Harvard Square)
- Salary reviews every 6 months or whenever we raise more investment
- 22 days of holiday plus bank holidays
- Time to go running (we run as a team every Tuesday and you’ll have time to do a Runna workout for an hour every week during work time)
- A workplace pension scheme
- A brand new Macbook, a running watch of your choice, and anything else you need to do your best work
- Private health insurance
- Enhanced family care policy (3 months fully paid leave when a new Runna joins the family, fertility support & other benefits)
Note: we’re open to exploring a 3 month contract initially to see if it’s a good fit for both parties
Still have questions? Check out our Careers Page and FAQ.
