Product Designer

Job Description

Company Overview:

We established Mind Foundry to ensure that AI can be used to radically transform our world for the better. Our commitment to this is in the design of intelligent tools that solve complex problems

Mind Foundry is an Oxford University company, founded by world-leading academics. Our mission is to empower organisations with AI built and deployed to tackle high-stakes, real-world problems at both individual and population scales.

We believe that AI is one of the most important technological advancements in human history, and in order to create a better future, it must be created responsibly and in a way that aligns with human values. We do this by creating AI responsibly from trusted scientific principles. We develop algorithms that are humble, honest, and aware of their limitations.

Our work focuses on creating a future where humans and AI work together to radically transform our world for good. Our technology has been used to solve problems when no other solution was available. The Mind Foundry Platform powers comprehensive offerings for the most complex problems in Insurance, Infrastructure, Defence & Security, and others.

Position Overview:

This requires strategic insight driven user experiences, rooted in deep empathy for our diverse audiences. We need your passion and drive for products that enable ordinary humans to thrive and go beyond their own expectations using machine learning tools.

We are seeking a dynamic and seasoned Product Designer who thrives in complexity and is passionate about transforming challenges into intuitive and beautifully designed digital experiences that achieve outcomes and solve problems.

We’re an international team from all walks of life, unified in our desire to be innovators, change makers and helpful stewards of AI as it begins to shape our world for years to come. We work in a remote-first, agile, and interdisciplinary environment that fosters collaboration, creativity, and learning.

Working at Mind Foundry will provide an excellent platform for you to grow, learn, and have a real impact on the important problems in the world.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Product Designer at Mind Foundry you will be able to utilise many skills critical at the intersection of ML technology, design and strategy.

Service Design and Systems Thinking

• Understand the broader ecosystem of our products, services, technologies and tools and design holistic experiences that consider all touchpoints of customer, audience and their user journeys and experiences.

Product and Design Thinking

• Apply a systematic problem-solving approach, ensuring innovative, user-centric solutions that align with validated problems, outcomes, and business goals.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers and stakeholders to help unpack requirements, define product roadmaps, set design priorities and inform decisions.
• Design and facilitate Design Thinking workshops with internal teams and customers/clients.

User Experience Design

• Understand users and their needs, define problems, design solutions, and iterate based on feedback.
• Regularly conduct and present findings, create user personas, and map user journeys to meet real needs, pain points, and behaviours.
• Conduct usability tests, gather feedback, and iterate designs to ensure user-friendly products.

User Interface Design

• Design and prototype intuitive, compelling and scalable interfaces aligned to strategic thinking, guidelines, frameworks optimised for performance and responsiveness.
• Contribute to, shape and mature the reusability of our Design System from Figma components to the utility of the wider library.

Interaction Design

• Champion the design instinctive interface interactions to ensure seamless transitions, usability and feedback mechanisms. Stay updated with the latest state-of-the-art interaction design trends and best practices.

Visual design

• Design systems and visual communication that ensure cohesiveness across all user interfaces. Collaborate closely with our brand team to uphold consistent and unique visual experiences.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing digital products at an agency, consultancy, or software company with a portfolio that speaks volumes.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma and Adobe XD.
• Strong understanding of AI and Machine Learning concepts.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong in the many techniques within the UI/UX stack
• Strong in utilising Design Thinking and proven to deliver along the entire design process
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously while adapting to changing demands at short notice.
• Experience in the Financial, Government, or Defence sectors is a plus.
• Video Editing / any code experience is a bonus but not required

If you are an all-rounder who has a passion in coordinating with everyone from designers to business leaders to put exceptional user experience and customer journey into the world then please do get in touch to discuss.

Location
We are a remote first business, however we would like someone to be happy to come to our office in Oxford up to a couple of times a month to spend some time with the team.