Product Designer

🥖 The Role

You’ll be central to our mission as we turn historically slow and painful processes into ones that are quick, intuitive and even delightful for installers. We’ve been design-led since the beginning but the challenge is only growing as our product becomes (necessarily) more complex. Day-to-day you’ll be:

• Making complex decisions feel effortless – Our platform handles everything from building physics calculations to fluid dynamics modelling to complicated compliance requirements. We need to make handling that complexity feel effortless for all our customers, irrespective of how tech-savvy they are.
• Designing across multiple touchpoints – You'll work on desktop design tools, homeowner-facing outputs, enquiry flows, mobile survey apps (incl LiDAR), and collaborative workflows that work seamlessly across different user types (from 3-person local installers to national utilities);
• Collaborating closely with developers & shipping code yourself – Understanding data structures and technical constraints so your designs can be shipped quickly; and shipping PRs yourself when it makes sense (with the support of the dev team);
• Building systematic, scalable design systems – Creating robust, structured, and reusable components that work across platforms and for potentially low-tech users;
• Researching and validating – Interviewing and spending time with installers to deeply understand how they work and what the core problems to solve are; and building quick prototypes to test and validate design decisions and uncover unexpected pain points.

🫵 About You

We’re looking for a designer with 3+ years of product/UI design experience (and potentially a lot more), ideally in a startup context or within fast-paced, impact-focussed teams. We'd love to speak with you if you are:

• A clear, systematic thinker who loves tackling complex flows;
• Comfortable with diving into technical detail, even if it’s a new domain;
• User-obsessed; you enjoy deeply understanding the user, solving their problems and making a tangible impact on them;
• Great with people and confident running research with customers;
• Proactive and self-organising, happy juggling multiple projects;

Bonus if you’ve worked on tools for field teams, low-tech users, or on operational workflows (but absolutely not a requirement!*)

🌟 Our offer

• 💰 £60-110k salary, depending on experience.
• 🍰 Meaningful slice of equity (options) in the company
• 🏖️ 33 days holiday and opportunity to work from abroad for another 30 days each year
• 🏡 Hybrid working: 2–3 days in-person a week (London or Bristol), with full-team meetups every fortnight
• 🏥 Private Medical Cover
• 👧 Workplace Nursery Benefit scheme (YellowNest)
• 🚲 Cycle to Work scheme
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Brilliant team to learn from and massive opportunity to grow

🧑‍💻 Working at Spruce

We’re currently a close-knit team of 28, split between London and Bristol. We spend 2-3 days each week working together in-person in both locations, and get everyone altogether every fortnight. You'll have genuine influence from day one. The best idea wins regardless of seniority. We expect you to challenge everything, ask "why?" multiple levels deep, and push back when something doesn't make sense. We want everyone to spend time with installers on-site, feel their pain points, then be able to rapidly suggest and implement solutions based on real feedback rather than assumptions. This is clearly particularly important for this role but you’ll be surrounded by a whole team who are also close to our customers. We move fast and ship imperfect things, learning from users rather than trying to perfect in isolation. When things break, we focus on how we fix it, what can we learn and never blame. You'll own your outcomes whilst knowing the team has your back. Feedback is constant, direct, and kind – we'll tell you when something isn't working and expect the same honesty (and empathy) back.

Compensation Range: £60K - £110K