Product Designer, Otta
Expansion team
£50-60k
2+ days a week in office (Old Street)
The better way to find a job in tech
Be an early applicant
The better way to find a job in tech
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£50-60k
2+ days a week in office (Old Street)
21-100 employees
Company mission
Our mission is to become the best platform for candidates and companies to find each other. We’ve merged with Welcome to the Jungle, and share a common vision of the need to reinvent the candidate job search experience and make job search less soul-crushing.
Role
Who you are
- You’ve worked in fast-paced consumer tech scale-ups and take a user-centric approach to designing features and customer journeys
- You’re motivated by solving problems for users, and constantly hone the experience through user research and testing
- You’re at your best in a collaborative low-ego environment, working with product managers, engineers and other product designers
- You are a clear communicator who knows when to advocate for your ideas and when to be pragmatic and compromise
- You know when to be pixel-perfect and when to make low-fi sketches and prototypes for rapid iteration
- You’re eager to learn and share knowledge as part of a wider design team of 5 designers, 2 design managers and 2 UX writers
What the job involves
- You’ll work in the Expansion team alongside another product designer, 6 full-stack engineers and our heads of product and engineering. Welcome to the Jungle recently acquired Otta and we’re on an exciting journey to create a global leader in the world of work as part of a 100-person strong product and tech team spread across the UK and France
- This team’s focus over the next 18 months is moving more of our free B2B customers to paid plans, launching new locations in the UK and the US, and bringing together the best of Otta and Welcome to the Jungle in a single global platform by 2026
- You’ll work across the design lifecycle, from user research and testing to wireframing, prototyping and high-fidelity UI design, and across all of our expansion products. This includes our B2C web and mobile apps, our B2B products for recruiters, and our internal tooling
- You'll use the UX analytics tool Contentsquare to help you understand user journeys, analyse page performance, and identify insights to inform your designs
- You’ll contribute to our evolving design guidelines and design library, which we’re updating as part of developing a global Welcome to the Jungle brand
- You’ll work alongside people in our commercial, marketing, production and operations teams, gaining a deeper understanding of the problems you’re trying to solve
- You’ll work in 8-week cycles to shape and build initiatives using our own version of Basecamp's Shape Up methodology. We take a common sense approach to agile ways of working, optimising for outcomes over processes
Application process
- 1. Initial interview to learn more about Welcome to the Jungle and Otta, and what you’re looking for next. This is a 45-minute call with Richa Arora (Talent Acquisition Manager).
- 2. Portfolio review (or discussion of 1-2 projects from your career). This is a 60-minute interview with Ajay (Senior Product Designer) and Aurele (Product Director).
- 3. Ideation workshop, which will delve deeper into skills and values assessment. This is a 90-minute interview with Janina (Senior Product Designer) and Julia (Head of Product).
- 4. Final values interview. This is a 60-minute interview with Victor (Head of Design) and Billy (Head of Engineering).
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Looking for a job is a frustrating experience. It’s incredibly hard to find a good match. Job adverts lack useful information like salary and diversity data. Companies sometimes never respond. Otta was created in 2019 to make finding a job in tech less soul crushing.
In January 2024, Otta merged with Welcome to the Jungle. Our ambition is to become a global leader in the world of work, and help candidates and companies find each other through our job matching, recruiter solutions including employer brand, and media.
Otta and Welcome to the Jungle both believe in a future of work based on the power of matching. Both companies share the same DNA that disrupts market conventions and are obsessed with helping people find exciting and meaningful work.
Caroline Fischer
UK Country Manager
Insights
Most candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
59% female employees
280% employee growth in 12 months
Meet the team
9 people
9 people
Our mission
Grow and retain revenue from new markets by making job search less soul crushing, and empowering recruiters to find and attract the right candidates.Julia O'Doherty, Head of Product, Expansion team
Company
Employee endorsements
Inspiring mission
"We've all had terrible experiences when trying to find a new role - it's at best tolerable and at worst utterly soul destroying. Because of Otta's..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Aug 2020
$3m
SEED
Total funding: $24.1m
Company benefits
- 24 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- In addition, we have a winter break where the office closes from 25 December to 1 January, so everyone can recharge
- We are trialling a 4 day week from June to December 2024, so everyone gets every Friday off
- £1,000 self-care allowance to spend each year on your wellness or personal development
- Universal parental leave - 13 weeks' full pay, 13 weeks' half pay, 13 weeks' statutory pay (if you have been with us for at least 6 months), 13 weeks' unpaid (optional)
- Health insurance with AVIVA, including dental and optician cover
- Breakfast, snacks and drinks at the office every day
- Lunch at the office every second Wednesday
- Cycle-to-work scheme with GCI (no £1,000 limit)
Company values
- Candidates first — Otta was started to make job search less soul crushing. Our main focus is meticulously crafting the best experience for candidates
- There for each other — Startups are hard, but more enjoyable when working with great people. We are supportive and generous with our time, whether it's giving feedback or brightening up someone's day
- We challenge because we care — We believe challenge allows us to reach new heights. From personal development to product design, we challenge because we care about each other and Otta’s success
- What’s the return? — We like to make a lot happen with a little. Doing this requires an evaluation of return on investment, and discipline to work on the problems that will have the biggest impact
- What would it take to learn faster? — Speed of iteration typically beats quality of iteration. We move fast when it helps us learn faster - we feel safe taking risks, finding smart shortcuts, or shipping experiments
- What could exceptional look like? — Our standards are high, and there are moments where it's worth pushing them further. We're comfortable asking hard questions to explore how to make something exceptional
Company HQ
Finsbury, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Jeremy Cledat
(CEO of Welcome to the Jungle)Previously worked in venture capital firms for 6 years, then created Welcome to the Jungle in 2015.
Caroline Fischer
(Country Manager of Otta)Grew her career in commercial, operational and leadership roles in big and small tech companies in London.
People progressing
Abby joined Otta as a Business Operations Associate and was promoted to Customer Success Lead after 7 months. She is now Head of Revenue Operations.
Sarah joined Otta as a Finance Lead and was promoted to Head of Finance after one year with the company.
People breakdown
11%
16%
9%
64%
Asian
Black or African American
Multiracial / Multiethnic
White
Last updated on 31 July 2024
Diversity & Inclusion at Otta
Claudia Gallon (People Partner)
- Though we’re quite early in our journey, our employees are starting to roll out initiatives that help us to better understand and empathise with each other and the world around us. We collect meaningful data in our onboarding survey, conduct privilege awareness workshops as part of employee onboarding, and anonymise tasks during interview processes to eliminate bias. Diverse employees make for an inclusive product.
- We’re committed to a feedback-driven and transparent culture, as we work to make Otta a workplace where everyone feels welcome and all voices are heard. An environment where conversations between socially different people are seen as opportunities to learn, anticipate alternative viewpoints, and generally grow our business.
- We’re continually iterating our product to do better. We collect meaningful diversity data from companies to inform candidates about gender split, we create transparency through sharing salary ranges, we donate to social mobility causes every time someone secures a new role through Otta. And there is so much more to come. We’re thankful for the opportunity to listen to and learn from our candidates.
- Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are integral to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. Our Women’s Group, LGBTQIA+ Group, Disability Group, and Black Employee Network provide vital support and advocacy, creating spaces for connection, growth, and empowerment. Through these ERGs, we celebrate diversity and ensure every employee can bring their whole self to work.
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