Product Design

We're looking for our first product designer to level-up design throughout the company. Axle is building cutting-edge energy products across the sector, from simple offerings for mass-market consumers through to advanced tooling for early adopters and enthusiasts. We have a highly autonomous, flat structure, delivering our products in small interdisciplinary teams of engineers and PMs. You'll operate across the business to raise the quality of all our design output, through both direct delivery as well as enablement and coaching of others. Alongside this, we're looking for ownership and support on how Axle represents itself externally.

Responsibilities

Understanding user problems and designing great experiences to solve them; Building the systems that allow for strategic and scalable solutions, in Claude and code, to allow everybody to ship beautiful software faster; Deepening the culture of user research and getting into the weeds of how people experience Axle's products, both B2C and B2B2C; Leading on the visual identity and finding new ways to tell Axle's story through web, animation, and video; Working with global clients to help them improve their user experiences

Requirements

Energised by ambiguity and takes a pragmatic, outcome-first approach; Excited about bringing sophisticated technology to a broader audience and happy to get into the technical details; Deeply curious about the world and how people experience it; Has a strong aesthetic sense and knows what good looks like

Benefits

Meaningful slice of equity in Axle; Competitive salary (total compensation £75k–£200k, base salary plus equity); Enhanced parental leave; Bi-annual retreats; Hybrid working with a dog-friendly office around Farringdon (2-3 days a week in the office); The opportunity to directly shape the future of energy markets and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon world