Design Jobs Board

• Can you see past complex challenges and reimagine digital products?
• Are you ready to translate user needs into excellent UI & UX design?
• Can you collaborate with others to raise the creative ambition of the Studio?
• Do you love breakfast pastries and copious amounts of tea?

Yeah? Amazing! Come and join Mettle’s dream team as our new Junior Designer.

About us

We believe great ideas deserve to be made. Going further than just ideas, we deliver real impact through the creation of beautiful digital and physical products. You will join a multidisciplinary team of designers, developers, engineers, and researchers united by their desire to make a difference.

We drive innovation across a diverse range of industries: from fem-tech ventures improving health outcomes for women; to digital tools for the civil infrastructure industry and improving digital storytelling in the climate-tech space. We’ve also designed our own award-winning bike lights! With an exciting pipeline of projects ahead, the Mettle team is expanding and looking for talented new team members who are driven by a desire to make a real, long-lasting impact. And have fun whilst doing so!

We are committed to making Mettle a joyful place to work where everyone feels comfortable to be themselves. We believe in flexible hybrid working, a healthy work-life balance, and supporting everyone to reach their full potential.

The Role

As a Junior Designer, you will:

• Support the development of large scale digital design systems
• Bring ideas to life through static visuals, sketches and storyboards
• Collaborate with the wider team on deep-dive UX and UI design sprints: generating ideas, prototyping concepts, testing with users, and detailing designs
• Learn to create effective, beautiful and feasible user flows, wireframes and detailed UI designs
• Participate in creative activities by generating ideas and helping to illustrate different concepts and ideas
• Improve your user research skills and help to create outcomes that fulfil users’ needs
• Grow your understanding of good, attractive aesthetic design
• Build a toolset of UX methods including flowcharts, wireframes, low-fidelity UI designs and information architectures
• Work closely with Mettle’s and clients’ software development teams to bring products to life and grow your understanding of how technical constraints influence how designs can be implemented
• Engage with best practice principles and processes
• Keep up-to-date with product and industry trends
• Offer your ideas for pitches and proposals during new business development
• Explore the role of communication and relationship building with clients and partners

Skills & Experience

You will have:

• A good portfolio of work that demonstrates your desire to work in digital, UI and/or UX design; this might include professional projects, those from your education or competitions, or self-initiated work
• A strong desire to get stuck in, try new things and have fun
• Good organisational skills with a desire to be proactive and work autonomously
• A willingness to navigate complexity and engage with technical detail
• Great levels of attention-to-detail
• Familiarity with digital design & prototyping software (we love Figma!)
• Good visual, verbal and written communication skills
• A strong desire to improve your skills and learn new tools and processes

It’s nice to have:

• Curiosity in workshop and Design Sprint facilitation
• Curiosity with front-end development languages or frameworks (such as HTML/CSS/JS, React, Django)
• Curiosity in no-code development (such as Webflow)

Pay & Benefits

This role pays an annual salary of £24k-£30k based on experience, plus a profit-sharing bonus scheme.

Life at Mettle

We recognise the importance of caring for our minds, bodies and our collective wellbeing. We provide access to professional support including an Employee Assistance Programme and a trained Mental Health First Aider should you ever find yourself in need. We also provide an annual personal wellbeing budget to each member of the team.

We have a flexible approach to remote working – from fully-remote to fully-office-based (in Somerset House, London) or anything in between. Our collaborative working hours are 0930 – 1630 GMT with flexibility on when you spend the rest of your time.

We offer 25 days annual leave and we are also closed between Christmas and New Year. There is an annual company team-building trip and we host several social events throughout the year to have fun and pursue passions. We are also committed to investing in your training and development: we provide a personal development budget of £500 each year, plus a plan tailored to each individual.