Product Designer

Our mission is to make meaningful learning a part of your everyday 🧠. The shelf life of our skills is now less than 5 years. So, if you stopped learning today, your skills would soon be irrelevant. Think that’s a big problem? You’d be right.

Enter HowNow. Founded in 2019, our Learning and Skills Platform is disrupting the way people learn and upskill through technology. Whether it's finding a quick answer, learning skills or tapping into shared knowledge, we make it easy for people to learn what they need, when they need it.

Already used by fast-growing scale-ups and global enterprises, such as Trainline, Depop and Sanofi, we’re pushing the boundaries of how people learn.

Hi I'm Ashish Soundalkar the Product Design Lead at HowNow 👋🏾 I’m looking for a Product Designer to join us.

At HowNow, we value work-life balance and grant the freedom to design creatively. We offer continuous learning and upskilling opportunities, fostering professional growth in an environment where innovation thrives.

Joining HowNow means making a significant impact during our growth phase and working with highly competent peers. If you're looking to grow with a supportive and forward-thinking team, HowNow is the place for you.

Alongside the opportunities to develop and grow your career, we're a fun and friendly bunch. Have a watch of the video below to get an understanding of what it's like to work here.

Experience

• 3-4 years designing digital products end-to-end (web, mobile, or both) in a product-led team
• Degree in Design, HCI, or Interaction Design - or a portfolio strong enough that it doesn't matter
• Portfolio with 2–3 deep case studies: the problem, what you tried, what you discarded, what shipped, and what changed as a result
• Has personally owned at least one feature from a vague brief through to release

Craft

• Fluent in Figma, including components, variants, auto-layout, and variables; has worked inside a maintained design system rather than starting every file blank
• Turns requirements into flows, IA, wireframes, and production-ready UI
• Strong fundamentals in type, spacing, hierarchy, and colour; designs accessible interfaces by habit, not as a final checklist
• Runs lightweight research - interviews, concept tests, usability sessions - and translates the messy output into decisions
• Reads product analytics and experiment results, and can argue for a design using both evidence and taste

Prototyping With AI Coding Agents

_This is central to how our team works - we build live prototypes with Claude Code rather than clickable Figma mocks.

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• Builds and iterates on real, deployed prototypes using an agentic coding tool; works in a terminal or IDE without hand-holding
• Uses Git competently for everyday work: branching, committing, pushing, untangling a small mess

Working Style

• Operates inside a squad with PM, engineering, and data; comfortable with shifting priorities and incomplete information
• Explains design reasoning clearly to non-designers and holds a position when it matters
• Gives and takes critique without ego
• Writes things down - decisions, rationale, open questions
• Self-directing; doesn't wait for a fully specified brief

Nice To Have

• Startup or scale-up background
• Motion and micro-interaction work (Rive, Lottie)
• Has helped build a design system, not just consume one
• Conceptual grasp of how LLMs behave - context, tokens, non-determinism
• Builds small automations or internal tools for the design team

What You’ll Get

💰 Our salaries are calculated using a SaaS benchmarking tool called (Figures). Happy to disclose upon application. You’ll also receive a performance based bonus on top.

🏡 Hybrid working (in our offices 3x a week Mon-Wed)

💆 Wind-down Fridays. No meetings from 3pm onwards on Fridays, for you to wind down for the weekend. Our HowNow’ers use this time to exercise, study, or spend some time with their family and friends, which you can read about here

👼🏼 Enhanced maternity and paternity policies which you can read about here

🌴 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and your birthday day off

📚 An annual £200 learning and development budget

🐶 Dog friendly offices - we love our pets! 🐾

🤩 Monthly socials and team dinners which have included Bounce, Mystery Rooms, ITC Maratha, JW Marriot and many more

💡 Access to the very best learning platform out there (HowNow+) to keep you at the top of your game

What's next? 🤔

Once you've applied, we'll get back in touch with you. This is usually within the next 5 working days. Sometimes it can take slightly longer, but we will get back to you irregardless of what the outcome of your application is.

• You'll be invited to a 30-minute video call with Naaz, our People Operations Coordinator to discuss your experiences and the role.
• Round 1 - Call with Product Design Lead - To Evaluate design experience
• Round 2 - Design Assignment - To Evaluate your design skills and competency
• You'll be invited to a 60 minute interview with Nelson, our CEO and Co-Founder and Product Design lead to present the assignment.