Product Designer - Admiral Pioneer

We are a start-up within Admiral Pioneer, looking to launch a business that helps solve growing problems for customers.

This is an incredible opportunity to join an early-stage start-up that will make a real impact on people’s lives.

As an early joiner, you will have significant input in the direction of our start-up. You will have the opportunity to help shape our business and the freedom to develop your own solutions.

About the Role

We are looking for a Product Designer to join our team, working in an entrepreneurial environment, to deliver excellent customer propositions.

This is a permanent position, but in the first 12 months you will:

• Lead design projects from start to finish, working collaboratively to research, define, and solve high impact customer problems.
• Have significant input in the product solutions that we launch and in the direction of our start-up.
• Work closely with the team to ensure consistency of design across all aspects of our proposition.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has experience of working in end to end design, including customer insight platforms, ideation of customer concepts, prioritisation, socialisation, and detailed design of customer products.
• Has the capability of developing MVP and Beta concepts in stringent timeframes, this will include design, UX, UI and ability to code early concepts.
• Is resilient and has the flexibility to change course and refine solutions based on data, insight from customers, and commercial inputs.
• Is an excellent communicator and can work collaboratively across multi-functional teams.

Who you are:

You are passionate about designing new world-class user experiences.  You’re someone who can help solve complicated problems and deliver user-friendly thoughtful design decisions.

You are resourceful, a self-starter, and enjoy working within a small team in a fast-paced and rewarding environment.

About the Team

Initially, our team will consist of four people, including a Product Designer (this role), Marketing Lead, and Lead Developer. The team will be led by our Product Lead.

We plan to maintain a lean team within our business. This will be complemented by the support of Admiral Pioneer, meaning we get the ‘best of both worlds’ with the flexibility and agility of a startup and resources of an established organisation.

Additional Information

Please include a portfolio with your application. Any applications without a portfolio will not be considered.

About Admiral

Admiral Group is a FTSE100 Financial Services company with a presence in eight countries. The company was set up in 1993 as a car insurance specialist, but since then the Group has expanded in other countries and other insurance verticals such as household and travel insurance, in loans, price comparison platforms, and has developed innovative products.

The Group has 7 million customers worldwide and employs over 11,000 people across its operations. Admiral is a growth story with an enviable track record of strong financial performances, ROE consistently over 50%, a turnover of £3.5 bn, and a profit before tax of £520 m in 2019.

Admiral’s philosophy is that ‘people who like what they do, do it better,’ and Admiral is proud to offer an open culture where achievement is rewarded and recognised and where coming to work is exciting every day. In 2019 Admiral received a special award from ‘Best Companies to Work For’ as the only company to feature within their rankings since they began 20 years ago: a true testament to the Group’s culture.

About Admiral Pioneer

Admiral Pioneer is a new business within Admiral Group with the objective of seeding, launching, and scaling new businesses that will become one of the growth engines for Admiral in the future. These new businesses will anchor around meeting customer needs in growth areas. We will achieve this by experimenting and proving new products, business models and partnerships through a disciplined, discovery-driven approach

We are building a dynamic and energizing environment where we will provide all the excitement and freedom of a scale-up but with the support and stability of an established large organization. We treat our colleagues openly, equally, and fairly and give them a ton of opportunity and freedom to do their best work and make a positive impact.  We make mistakes because building from scratch is not easy, but we are curious about where we get it wrong and we take this learning forward. We seek to recruit bright, passionate people who have a can-do attitude who look at the world and see the opportunity in our own small way, to make it better for our customers.

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we're voted no. 1 in the 2019 Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

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