Faculty is hiringProduct Designer

About Faculty

Faculty is one of Europe’s leading applied artificial intelligence companies. We build, deploy and operate AI solutions to increase our customers’ performance and help them realise their full potential. 

We’re perhaps best known for our award winning COVID-19 Early Warning System, that helped the NHS to manage critical supply chains during the pandemic.  But our work with over 300 customers to date has delivered impact for customers right across the economy.

Faculty is at an exciting moment in our development as a business.  We are launching Frontier; a market leading decision intelligence product, to sit alongside our more established consulting work.

This is an equally important time for the adoption of AI in society.  Conversational AI (like GPT3) and Creative AI (like DallE and Stable Diffusion) have given a glimpse into the transformative potential of the next wave of this technology.  

It is our belief that Decision AI will have impacts on a similar scale, and fundamentally change the way operational decisions are made in organisations.  

Our objective is that in five years time, Frontier will be the leading software in Decision AI category.

About the role

We are looking for a UX focused Product Designer, to help us build our new decision intelligence product for supply chain & operations teams – Frontier.

The product team at Faculty is responsible for helping customers make better decisions through features that help them unlock a deeper understanding of their business, rapidly convert analysis to action, and connect their organisation.

As a Product Designer, you’ll help us achieve that goal by designing delightful experiences that help our customers make better decisions.

What you'll be doing

• Designing product features that tackle the most pressing problems in decision making, across a wide range of sectors, including manufacturing, healthcare, and retail. Solutions to these problems may include workflow tools, data visualisations, and brand new user journeys.

• Leading the design process in collaboration with product squads of product managers, data scientists and engineers.

• Conducting user research with customers to understand their workflows, goals, and pain points; synthesising findings and communicating insights to the product squad in order to inform and refine the roadmap.

• Communicating your design thinking through user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs (with varying levels of design fidelity), presenting alternatives and justifying design decisions where necessary, both to customers and to product squads.

• Creating high quality visuals and interactions, based on a strong understanding of good design principles as well as the Faculty brand.

• Being a team player within the team and design guild, actively participating in our activities and design critiques as well as contributing to scaling the design and product capability across the company. You will be expected to contribute to the design vision for Faculty; encourage and ensure world-class design execution by helping set standards and best practices.

• Contributing to and helping grow our design system.

What we are looking for

• Experience working with data or on business intelligence/B2B/AI-based applications.

• Experience in carrying out the end-to-end design process independently, with examples of activities that span across user research, UX, and UI.

• A portfolio showcasing a range of projects, with examples of your design process and artefacts you produced along the way.

• Examples of work where you have done discovery and research to understand a complex problem and then synthesised your findings to come up with design solutions.

• Knowledge of prototyping and design tools. We use Miro and Figma, but are quick to adopt better tools and processes, so you’ll be more than welcome to contribute all the good practices you’ve used before.

• Excellent verbal, written, and visual/presentation communication skills.

• Interest in working on an early-stage product.

• Interest in a quantitative discipline, like mathematics or computer science would be nice but not essential.

• Demonstrable interest in working on data science/AI applications.

Culture & Benefits at Faculty

The Faculty team is diverse and distinctive, and we all come from different personal, professional and organisational backgrounds. We all have one thing in common: we are driven by a deep intellectual curiosity that powers us forward each day. This curiosity pushes us to seek truth and understanding in everything we do, to execute work in a nimble and pragmatic manner, to foster talent in one another and always to challenge assumptions.

Faculty is the professional challenge of a lifetime. You’ll be surrounded by an impressive group of brilliant minds working to achieve our collective goals. Our consultants, product developers, business development specialists, operations professionals and more all bring something unique to Faculty, and you’ll learn something new from everyone you meet. You’ll also have the opportunity to make your mark on a high-growth start-up now poised to expand internationally.

Fostering talent is one of our core values, it’s built into our culture and what we offer. Faculty was founded by people who are passionate about continuous learning, and adding value to our people.

Some of our benefits:

• Unlimited holidays: We encourage each other to use this time to take a break, work on personal projects, or to spend time with their friends and family.

• Genuinely flexible working: We believe people have needs, responsibilities and interests that require something different to a strict working day. We trust people to organise and take accountability for their own work and do our best to support their lives outside Faculty. We provide you with all you need to work from home, including a laptop, keyboard, chair…even Sony headphones!

• Equity: We want you to benefit from Faculty’s growth and success.

• Fantastic private health, optical and dental insurance for you & your family - including 24/7 unlimited virtual private GP appointments and covering pre-existing medical conditions.

• Access to mental health coaching with Sanctus

• Free breakfast, weekly lunches and more fruit, drinks and snacks than you could ever eat when you're in the office.

• We work hard and make sure we enjoy what we do. So we have frequent socials and informal get-togethers to help make sure you enjoy your time with us. You’ll make friends and professional connections that will last a lifetime.