Member of Design Staff - Product Designer

Financial Times

ABOUT US The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations, globally recognised for its authority, integrity and accuracy, with a mission to deliver quality information and services worldwide.  At the FT, curiosity thrives and ambitious thinking is rewarded. Here, you’re given the chance to reach millions, create work that matters and deliver impartial journalism in a polarised world. In our warm, collaborative culture, you’ll connect with a diverse community of experts who support your growth, career aspirations and wellbeing. Your future at the FT will be filled with opportunities that challenge and inspire you. With no fixed path, you’ll discover new skills and forge a career that can take you anywhere. Build a newsworthy career at the FT. OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION We believe in the power of unique perspectives and want all voices in our organisation to be heard, respected and valued. A supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves and operate to their full potential. We are committed to removing barriers for everyone, with a focus on addressing those faced by underrepresented groups. THE ROLE OVERVIEW We’re looking for a Product Designer to join our Design Systems team on a 12-month fixed-term contract covering maternity leave, based at Bracken House, our iconic building near St Paul’s in London. As a Product Designer in the Design Systems team, you’ll play a key role in the evolution of Origami, the FT’s design system, helping teams design and build with greater consistency, quality and pace. You’ll work across reusable principles, patterns, foundations, components and libraries that support product delivery across the FT. This role spans web and mobile in a hybrid environment combining native and web-based experiences. You’ll contribute to patterns that work coherently across iOS, Android and web, helping create a consistent, high-quality experience across platforms. You’ll collaborate closely with product designers, engineers and product managers, and work with Brand and Editorial Design teams to ensure alignment across foundational styles and journalistic layouts. You’ll work within our federated contribution model, helping teams contribute to, adopt and evolve the system over time. Accessibility is fundamental to this role. You’ll help ensure patterns, components and guidance meet high accessibility standards from the outset. We’re looking for someone with strong craft, attention to detail and curiosity about systems thinking and emerging technologies. You’ll contribute to creating a premium, coherent FT product experience while continuing to develop your own design systems practice within an established and evolving team. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Design and evolve reusable components, patterns, foundations and libraries within Origami, helping reduce duplication and improve consistency across teams. * Contribute to system solutions across web and mobile, supporting hybrid environments spanning iOS, Android and web. * Help identify opportunities for reusable patterns and system improvements based on product needs and feedback from teams. * Support design work from problem framing through to validation, documentation and handover, using research, audits and feedback to inform decisions. * Create clear documentation and specifications across Figma, Zeroheight and other system tooling, covering variants, edge cases and usage guidance. * Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure solutions are feasible, scalable and aligned with implementation, including the effective use and sharing of design tokens across Figma and production code. * Support designers and engineers through contribution and governance processes, helping teams adopt shared patterns and ways of working. * Work with product teams to identify gaps, improve consistency and embed stronger system thinking across products. * Support delivery of roadmap priorities that improve delivery efficiency, product quality and adoption. * Maintain a high bar for accessibility, craft and coherence across the system. AI-ENABLED DESIGN SYSTEMS * Explore and apply AI-assisted tooling to support prototyping, component definition and documentation. * Contribute to making Origami well-structured and usable within AI-assisted workflows, including systems that rely on tokens, documentation and reusable patterns. * Collaborate with engineers to explore practical AI-assisted approaches to component development and documentation workflows. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR * Strong product design craft across interaction, visual design and prototyping, with clear attention to detail and quality. * Experience working on or contributing to digital products or design systems, with an understanding of how systems scale across teams and platforms. * Experience designing across web and mobile, including familiarity with iOS and Android platform conventions and hybrid environments. * Confidence applying accessibility standards in practice. * The ability to communicate ideas clearly and document work in a way that supports both design and engineering, with a working understanding of HTML, CSS and accessible, semantic markup. * A collaborative approach, with the ability to build relationships across product, engineering, editorial and brand teams. * Comfortable collaborating with others through feedback, contribution and shared ways of working. * An understanding of how individual design decisions contribute to broader system quality, consistency and maintainability. AI AND EMERGING TOOLING * Up to date with and interested in how AI is shaping design and development workflows. * Experience using or exploring AI-assisted tools, with an understanding of how systems can support these workflows. * Interest in applying AI in practical ways to improve speed, quality and consistency. REQUIRED EXPERIENCE * A portfolio demonstrating strong product and systems thinking, with evidence of meaningful impact. * Experience working in Figma, including component libraries, variables, tokens and prototyping. * Experience creating or contributing to reusable components, patterns or guidance for digital products. * Experience working closely with engineers to deliver high-quality outcomes. * Experience working in cross-functional teams within product delivery environments. * Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. * An interest in systems thinking, accessibility and emerging tooling. * Experience or interest in AI-assisted design or development workflows is a plus. WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU? OUR BENEFITS Our benefits vary by location but we are committed to providing best-in-class perks across all our offices. These include generous annual leave, medical cover, inclusive parental leave packages, subsidised gym memberships and opportunities to give back to the community. Full details of our benefits are available here. We currently operate a hybrid model which requires staff to work onsite 50% of the time, subject to role requirements & regular review. While flexible working requests will be considered, not all patterns are suitable for all roles. We believe this balanced approach supports flexibility and protects our culture, making collaboration and communication easier, building stronger relationships and team cohesion, and supporting peer learning.  We reserve discretion on reasonable notice to change this approach either generally or for specific individuals or teams.  ACCESSIBILITY We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments/personalisation as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions, email talent@ft.com and a member of our team will be happy to help. Further information At the FT, we embrace innovation and the use of technology and appreciate that individuals may leverage AI tools as part of their job application process. Whilst we are happy for you to use AI to assist with your application, it is essential that all information provided is authentic and accurately represents your skills, experience, and qualifications. Candidates should be aware that the use of AI throughout the application process may be monitored to ensure a fair and transparent hiring process for all.

Tessl

Tessl is a fast-growing Series A startup based in London, founded by Guy Podjarny. We’ve raised over $100M from world-class investors including Index Ventures, Accel, GV, and Boldstart, and in 2025 we were ranked #2 in Sifted EU’s B2B SaaS Rising 100 and #20 in Sifted's AI 100. At Tessl, we are building the context layer for AI coding agents, and a platform for AI-native software development. As an early member of the team, you’ll help shape how we build, scale and support a company operating at the edge of AI and software development. ABOUT THE ROLE We're looking for a Member of Product Staff — a senior, hands-on product manager who can own ambiguous, high-stakes problems end to end and help define how product is practised as the team grows. This is a generalist role. The patterns for how developers work with AI agents are still forming, and you'll have a direct hand in shaping them across the product — from the CLI and core platform to the new bets we'll place as we expand. Much of the work is 0-to-1: you'll shape product direction amid genuine ambiguity, translate fast-moving model and research breakthroughs into experiences developers trust, and decide what's worth building when there's no settled playbook. We also expect this person to be building a genuinely AI-native product practice: using the best available tools to think more clearly, move faster, and raise the quality of the work. We're not looking for someone who uses AI occasionally — we want someone actively developing how they work with it, and setting the standard for the team. WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON * Own product areas end to end. Take problems from early concept through discovery, definition, launch, and iteration — setting priorities for a cross-functional team and making the calls on what matters most. * Develop deep product sense for developer workflows. Spend real time with developers and engineering teams to understand how they think, where they struggle, and where AI creates the most leverage. Turn those observations into specific, well-reasoned product decisions. * Translate frontier capability into product. Partner closely with engineering and research to turn new model capabilities and agentic breakthroughs into reliable, high-value developer experiences. * Shape strategy, not just execute it. Bring a clear point of view to roadmap and direction. You'll be in the room for strategy conversations and expected to help shape outcomes, not just respond to decisions already made. * Lead through influence. Act as the connective tissue between engineering, design, research, GTM and leadership — and as a credible voice with customers. Keep a globally-minded, fast-moving team rowing in the same direction. * Maintain a high quality bar at speed. Ship quickly without losing rigour, and hold the line on quality and developer trust even when the product is changing fast. * Build an AI-native product process. Define which tools and workflows raise quality and pace, share what you learn, and help set how product gets done at Tessl. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR * Experience: Roughly 6+ years in product management (or equivalent), with a track record of shipping real, technically demanding products end to end. Comfortable operating at a senior IC level with significant autonomy. * Product sense & judgment: Strong instincts for what to build and why, backed by good business judgment and the ability to reason clearly under ambiguity and incomplete information. * Technical fluency: A track record of building for technically sophisticated users — developers, engineers, or data professionals. You don't need to be an engineer, but you should be genuinely curious about how the systems you build for actually work, and able to partner with research and engineering at a technical level. * 0-to-1 instinct: Comfortable shaping direction where there's no settled product, market, or process. You're drawn to ambiguity rather than unsettled by it. * Collaboration & communication: Excellent communicator who can align and influence engineers, designers, researchers and leaders who think differently to you. Confident enough to hold a point of view, flexible enough to run with the best idea wherever it comes from. * Domain experience (a plus): Developer tools, AI/ML applications, or productivity infrastructure. Exposure to CLI tooling, agentic workflows, or evaluation systems is a genuine advantage. We don't have all the answers yet. This is a role where you'll help define new patterns, work at the edge of what's known, and shape how product is practised at a company still figuring things out in the best possible way. If that excites you, and you feel you'd be a strong fit even if you don't meet every criterion listed, we'd encourage you to apply. SALARY AND BENEFITS Office: Our brand new 10,000 sq. ft office is in the AI hub of Kings Cross, London. We have generous catering and regular social events such as team lunches, drinks and more. We require all staff to be in our London HQ at least 3 days a week on our anchor days of Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Salary: We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience and skills and employee share options, benchmarked against industry standards. Benefits: 25 days holiday, health insurance, including dental and vision, which extends to partners and dependents, as well as a company-matched pension. We also provide a commuting stipend for those who live outside London, and a cycle to work scheme. APPLICATION PROCESS 1. Screening call 2. Case study presentation (with the hiring panel) 3. Final round — cross-functional collaboration, leadership, and a hands-on PM workshop 4. Leadership Chat We care deeply about the warm, inclusive environment we’re building at Tessl and we value diversity – we welcome applications from those typically underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this role but are not totally sure whether you’re the right person, do apply anyway! LEARN HOW WE THINK AND WORK * On Tessl, The AI Native Development Startup * Announcing skills on Tessl: the package manager for agent skills * Podcast Episode: The End of Fragmented Agent Context, Guy Podjarny Tessl CEO

Metaview

Coding was first. Recruiting is next — and we're building it. We're designing a coworker, not a piece of software. Taste is how it earns trust. We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end recruiting agents that feel like coworkers. Metaview helps organizations hire with radically more speed and precision. We automate toil and augment humans for teams like Brex, Affirm, Deel, ElevenLabs, and Airtable. Founded by Siadhal Magos and Shahriar Tajbakhsh, who scaled Uber and Palantir, we have raised over $100M from top-tier investors. We are growing 5x year over year, our customers are raving fans of the product, and our story has been covered in Fortune, Forbes, TechCrunch, and The Times. Now is the time to re-engineer how work gets done with AI at the core, and our toughest challenges still lie ahead. We are looking for people seeking the hardest, most fulfilling work of their lives. WE HAVE ONE VALUE: VELOCITY. Not motion for its own sake, but real progress. We ship every day, ship on Fridays, and skip the tickets, roadmaps, and design-doc theater. We barely write code by hand anymore: every builder on the team orchestrates a stack of agents, and we ship 8x what we did a year ago with the same small team. The designer who can prototype is lethal here — you can take an idea from sketch to shipped without waiting on anyone. Process stays light, standards stay high, and feedback loops stay short. WHAT YOU'LL BUILD Day to day, you'll design and build: * the look and feel of new product experiences across the hiring workflow — from first sketch to shipped pixels * interfaces that make AI agents feel transparent, trustworthy, and genuinely like a coworker * the moments where conversational signal becomes something a user can see, trust, and act on * prototypes that prove out an idea fast — in Figma, in code, or somewhere in between * the craft bar for the whole product: motion, density, hierarchy, the details that make it feel inevitable WHAT YOU'LL OWN In your first 3-6 months, you should: * own and ship meaningful product areas end-to-end, from problem definition through rollout * set how Metaview's AI products look, feel, and behave in real customer workflows * turn messy, ambiguous problems into interfaces that feel obvious in hindsight * contribute to the bar across craft, execution, and product judgment WHAT WE'RE AFTER We're likely to be excited by people who: * have shipped beautiful, complex products in fast-moving software environments * can design and are comfortable bringing it to life themselves — in Figma, in code, or both * have a real point of view on products: what's great, what's broken, and what they'd change * care about the pixels, the motion, and the details most people never notice * like ownership, ambiguity, and working shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering, product, and customers * want to help define what AI-native software feels like while the shape of the company is still being formed WHAT YOU BRING Helpful signals include experience with: * shipping products where the pixels matter — rich, interactive frontends, not just a button that calls an API * design systems, real-time collaboration, or other genuinely hard interaction problems * AI-native interfaces: agent interactions, streaming and loading states, the in-between moments of a conversation * side projects or a portfolio that show real obsession with craft * startup or scale-up environments where iteration speed and ownership are both high WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW * A small, sharp, in-person team in London. Best ideas win on merit, not ceremony. Want to know what it's actually like? Read our unfiltered Slack at metaview.ai/careers#slackbook. * We pay in the top 10% of the market — salary and meaningful equity. Our process is fast and direct. It's not unusual to hear back the same day. * We operate with a simplified leveling, early-career, mid-career, and staff and above. Your level sets your comp. No back-and-forth, no games. We track the market closely and adjust when it tells us to. Market refreshers, twice a year. We re-benchmark against the market two times a year and move comp up when it drifts — so "top 10%" stays true, not just true on your start date. * Promotions and raises on a real cycle. We review level and scope roughly every six months. When your responsibilities grow, your comp follows. It's tied to a real change in the work rather than an automatic bump. * Equity that's genuinely competitive. World-class equity option grants so we're all owners. We keep the structure simple: cash and equity. * Visa sponsorship and immigration support. We sponsor work visas and handle the process with you, start to finish. * Time off, unlimited. You should feel empowered to take as much time off as you need.