International Product Designer at Birdie

🐦 About birdie

birdie is the leading home healthcare technology platform that aims to radically transform the lives of older adults. Its all-in-one solution supports millions of care visits every month, equipping care providers with the tools they need to deliver better quality care and improve efficiency across most day-to-day operations. birdie is B-Corp certified and was recently named as a top two Home Health Tech provider globally in the cohort of top 150 Most Innovative Digital Health startups by CB Insight in 2021.

Launched in 2017, birdie is a team of socially motivated care, health, product and tech entrepreneurs. We were nominated one of the top 10 UK startups to watch, the SME with the best culture in the UK and was in the 2020 Business Cloud Top 50 Start Up's list. In 2021 we were named no.9 in Start Up's top 100 innovative and disruptive businesses as well as being accepted into Tech Nation's 2021 Upscale 7.0 program. As of June 2022 we closed our series B funding with £25m invested by Sofina, Omers & Index ventures.

 

⚡️️ Your mission:

We’re searching for a product designer who is excited to make an impact on social and health care at a global scale. You woul join our multidisciplinary international squad to bring birdie to new markets, starting with Germany and Spain. The challenges for this team goes well beyond translation… Culture and attitudes to care will be different, Medication databases will be unique, payroll and invoicing practices will vary, and each country will have it’s own third party integrations. This means you would work across our entire product estate, collaborating with specialist domain teams to bring their products to a global audience.

 

• See a product’s design through from beginning to end. You’ll have a part to play in the whole process from research, through to ideation, iteration, testing, and refinement.
• Work closely with engineers and product managers to get new features into the hands of our customers.
• Contribute to our visual language and design system to ensure a consistent and beautiful branded experience across all our products.
• Engage with stakeholders across the organisation and relate to their goals and concerns.
• Build prototypes to test your assumptions and make sure our products are best placed to delight customers from day one.
• Conduct research with the understanding that you may often be proven wrong, with an aim to continually grow your capacity for empathy with our customers and colleagues.

Requirements

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…

• You speak German, have lived in Germany, or understand the German healthcare and social care sector. You love learning languages and exploring new cultures.
• You empathise with our customers and are aware that the products you design can make a real difference to the care of older adults.
• You are able to justify and articulate your design decisions and strive to do so in clear and simple terms that others will understand.
• You check your ego at the door and are always keen to incorporate ideas from across the organisation to design products everyone can be proud of.
• You know when to push for quality and when to compromise to get projects over the finish line and into the hands of our customers

 

These are our ideal requirements, but we know some people are less likely to apply for the role unless they are 100% qualified. We promote a diverse, inclusive and empowering culture at Birdie, so please apply if you meet the majority of these competencies.

Benefits

🙌 What are the benefits?

People are our core strength. We are social entrepreneurs, boasting an outstanding culture (employer net promotion score of 67) with strong values (B-Corp certified). We offer exceptional benefits and invest massively in our team's happiness, wellbeing and growth:

✨ Compensation

Our salary packages are competitive, this role is £55,000 - £70,000 DOE. We also generous grant stock options to any permanent employee at the end of the probation period. We do adjust salaries based on the cost of living index for employees based outside of the UK.

🏝 Flexible

You will be able to work this role within a +/- 3 hour timezone of the UK. We organise quarterly in-person events and online socials to make sure you can meet up with peers. If you want to come to the office, you're most welcome of course!

🌱 L&D budget

Growth is key. You'll have a personal development budget to put towards books (e.g., free audible subscription), courses, trainings and conferences; continuous coaching within the team and with external experts

🌴 Base holiday

33 days base holiday (25 days + 8 bank holidays) + Christmas eve day off

🎄 Christmas leave

birdie closes between Christmas and New Year so you can have some down time with your loved ones. This is in addition to your base holiday!

🎂 Birthday leave

You can take your birthday off when it falls on a weekday! (effective from 1st Jan 2023)

👩‍⚕️ Private health insurance

Private health insurance with Vitality that covers many physical and mental health costs

☀️ Gym and wellbeing memberships

Gym membership and numerous other wellbeing perks and discounts via Vitality

🚲 Cycle to work scheme

birdie will buy a bike up-front and you can salary sacrifice to pay-off over the next 12-36 months

🧘 Wellbeing Leave

10 days of paid leave outside of our generous Sick Leave policy, for when you need to revive and reset.

👼🏽 Parental Leave

Highly favourable parental leave policy; once you have spent twelve consecutive months on our payroll, primary caregivers are entitled to 26 weeks of parental leave at 100% of your usual salary and secondary caregivers are entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave, at 100% of your usual salary.

🐣 Fertility Leave

birdie recognises the emotional and physical challenges which may arise during fertility treatments, and supports all birdies by offering 5 additional paid days of leave.

👵🏻 Pension employer contribution

birdie contributes 4% of your salary to your pension.

⛷ Frequent company socials, trips and meals

We organise many socials, quarterly retreats and annual trips (like our epic ski trips)

🤗 Exceptional culture

We see ourselves as social entrepreneurs shaping a new kind of organisation: caring, responsible yet fostering excellence. Read The birdie Way to learn more.

⚖️ Equal Opportunities Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and we strive to reduce unconscious bias throughout our hiring process. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.

We endeavour to embrace diversity, and promote an inclusive environment for all birdies, and actively work towards this with our Diversity & Inclusion Committee.

If you have any questions regarding the interview process, or if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made, please don’t hesitate to contact us.