Junior Product Designer

Who we are

Born in 2014, Yoti is a digital identity and biometric technology company that makes it safer for people to prove who they are. The Yoti app was designed with privacy at its core, giving people a secure way to prove their identity and share third-party credentials with organisations and other people.

Today, we have over seventeen million app downloads around the world. We’ve expanded our offering to a suite of business solutions that span identity verification, age verification and estimation, e-signing, AI anti-spoofing technologies and we continue to think of innovative new offerings.

From day one, we’ve been working to fix an outdated identity system. This is not a journey we make on our own but with policy advisors, think tanks, researchers, academics, humanitarian bodies, our users and everyday people. We are committed to solving identity problems through grassroots research and social purpose initiatives.

Purpose of the Role: As a Junior Product Designer, you’ll contribute to the creation of intuitive, user-focused products which support Yoti’s mission to make the internet safer and help people protect their data. You’ll support more senior designers in research, prototyping, and design delivery, developing your craft while learning how to balance user needs with product goals in a fast-moving, collaborative environment.

Role Dimensions: Part of the product design team, reporting to the Lead Product Designer or Head of Product Design. With regular oversight from your manager and senior designers, you will be responsible for small product areas.

Principal Responsibilities:

• With support from senior designers and design leaders, you will be responsible for the user experience of a specific feature or small product area, ensuring design deliverables meet established standards and contribute to user and business needs.
• Learning about product strategy by observing and participating in discussions related to feature development.
• Supporting cross-functional teams in delivering design work, from assisting with research to preparing files for developer handover.
• Participating in design planning meetings to understand tickets, requirements, and delivery timelines.
• Collaborating with product managers, designers, researchers, UX writers, and engineers to create and deliver effective product solutions.
• Assisting with the collection and analysis of qualitative user feedback and quantitative data to inform design decisions.
• Applying Yoti’s design systems components to ensure consistency across products.
• Learning about and applying accessibility standards and ethical design practices, with guidance on privacy, trust, and inclusivity.
• Assisting in presenting design concepts to your product team.
• Actively seeking constructive feedback and guidance from more experienced designers.
• Learning about human-centred and inclusive design principles and their application within your product work.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

• You're beginning to understand how design decisions affect users and product goals.
• You have some experience or a foundational understanding of designing for native mobile or web apps.
• You can assist in simplifying problems and designing user-friendly experiences.
• You’re familiar with Figma and can create basic UI designs, flows, and work within design systems under guidance.
• You’re learning about different AI tools and are curious about how they can be integrated into the design process.
• You're learning about different design tools and approaches to problem-solving.
• You can follow a defined design process for individual tasks, seeking guidance as needed.
• You're learning to use data and research to inform your design work.
• You can articulate your design work to immediate team members.
• You're learning to collaborate with engineers and product managers.
• You're willing to participate in workshops and working sessions with cross-functional teams.
• You're learning to work with UX copywriters and researchers and can support research efforts.
• You're learning about accessibility in design and how to make your work inclusive.
• You're curious about new tools and design methodologies.

Interview Process

Stage 1 - Initial call with the Talent Acquisition team member ( 30 minutes)

Stage 2 - 1st call with team members (60 minutes)

Stage 3 - In-person Final interview ( 120 minutes)

What’s in it for you?

• Flexible working
• Performance based discretionary annual bonus
• Share Options
• Internal Share Market
• Private Medical Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• 5 fully paid Selfie Days - for your own personal development, volunteering, charity events, etc
• Team and company activities, Social clubs.
• Continuous learning opportunities (Annual Training budgets, conferences etc)

This is a great opportunity to join a company that is leading the way for innovative and responsible identity verification. We’re looking for people who can adapt to a fast-paced environment, as well as champion our brand and what we stand for. We value a positive attitude and people who have a collaborative, creative and transparent approach to solving problems.

We believe in equal opportunities

It takes a diverse community of passionate, talented and committed people to build a simpler, more secure way of proving identity. We’re an equal opportunity employer, so we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, with different outlooks and experiences.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and we’re committed to making our recruitment process as inclusive and accessible as possible.

If you have a disability or long-term condition and need any adjustments or support during the application or interview process, please let us know — we’ll do everything we can to support you and to enable you to bring your best self to our hiring process.

Pre-employment checks

If your application is successful please be aware that as part of our pre-employment checks:

We will check your details against fraud prevention databases

We will check identity; address match; PEPs and sanctions; bank validation, verification, fraud checks, negative data (CCJ, bankruptcy). If our investigations identify fraud or other criminal offences both when applying for a job and during your employment, we will record the details on the relevant fraud prevention databases. This information may be accessed from the UK and other countries and used by law enforcement agencies and other organisations to prevent fraud.

Please contact [email protected] to get information on which fraud prevention databases we use.

Talent Pool

If we consider that you might be suitable for other roles in the future, we will keep your details so we can contact you about these other roles. If you do not want us to keep your details for this purpose, please e-mail [email protected] or let us know at any stage of the recruitment process. For more information please read our Applicant Privacy Notice.