Senior Product Designer

About Paired

At Paired, we’re on a mission to help romantic couples stay in love. So we created a fun, safe space for couples to explore their relationship and grow together. Backed by expert advice and cutting-edge research, our app delivers engaging questions, games, and quizzes that improve key relationship skills in just minutes each day.

And it works. Our app is the #1 couples app globally with +12M downloads, +200,000 daily active users, and more than £5M of fundraising to date. We’ve won multiple awards from Apple and Google, recognising us for our innovative approach to romantic relationship health.

Although we are a remote-first team hiring in the UK and Spain, keeping our employees connected remains extremely important. To bring everyone together, we meet three times a year at various European locations for focused co-working weeks and dynamic team-building activities.

About The Role

Paired is looking for a Senior Product Designer to elevate our user experience and drive long-term engagement for couples. In this fully remote senior role, you will lead the design process within our Engagement squad, covering everything from concept to execution. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and fellow designers to develop innovative features that enhance the Paired experience and broaden our app’s offerings.

Your key focus will be working on new features to provide actionable relationship insights to users based on their activity in the app. Reporting to the Head of Design and working with a diverse team of seven designers, you will play a pivotal role in shaping how couples engage with the app and each other, fostering deeper connections and lasting engagement.

What Your Role Encompasses 

• Lead the end-to-end design process for innovative features from concept to launch
• Partner with Product Managers and Researchers to uncover the biggest problems and opportunities for our users via research
• Support Product Managers and Design Leads in shaping initiatives and defining the roadmap
• Foster a strong, user-centered point of view on product areas and collaboratively advocate for user needs.
• Develop rapid prototypes and conduct iterative design cycles to refine new concepts
• Design and execute new concepts from early-stage ideation to high-fidelity and visually appealing mock-ups
• Communicate design rationale and efficiently steer explorations of multiple solutions to problems
• Support Paired's Design System by promoting and reviewing major changes, and introducing new solutions
• Drive outcomes for our users and Paired through design, focusing on impact rather than just visual output
• Mentor other designers by giving constructive feedback to influence and strengthen peers’ decision-making skills and quality of work

Requirements

• Extensive experience in product design for mobile applications with a focus on subscription-based apps
• Professional background in supporting the growth and scaling phase of at least one Tech company, ideally within industries such as femtech, self-improvement, education, health & fitness, and related fields
• Strong portfolio showcasing case studies that demonstrate great product thinking, user experience, interaction, and visual design skills, a clear process and results
• Proven ability to work on very broadly defined, loose concepts, as well as narrowly defined, tactical features
• Deep knowledge of best practices for information architecture, navigation, UX, and UI design
• Experience working in fast-paced, cross-functional product teams, with the ability to quickly adapt and respond to change
• Proactive self-starter who brings original ideas and fresh approaches to design challenges
• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools (we use Figma predominantly) with a healthy interest in learning new tools
• Good understanding of Design Systems and A11Y, to ensure consistency, scalability, and inclusivity
• Ability to use data and user research to understand user needs, and gather insights to justify and support design decisions 
• Must reside in the UK or Spain and have the legal right to work there (we are unable to provide visa sponsorship)
• Must share a portfolio, see our hints below

What We Love To See In Your Portfolio

• Showcase your best work and demonstrate how your designs created real business impact
• Tell the story behind the design – include case studies with problem statements, your design process, and how your work drove results
• Demonstrate user-centred thinking – show how research and user insights shaped your decisions
• Highlight how you measured the success of your designs – include metrics and feedback that demonstrate how your solutions performed
• Show versatility with your visual skills – share examples of delightful, custom interfaces that break from conventional patterns to meet unique design challenges
• Be visually engaging – clear, well-structured, and easy to navigate

Benefits

• Yearly salary of £80K-£85K (UK) /  €80K-€86K (Spain)
• Significant stock options
• Yearly 2 company-wide in-person coworking weeks plus 1 IRL team–building event at various European locations
• Subsidised co-working space
• 25 days annual leave (+public holidays)
• Yearly learning budget of £1,000 / €1,150
• Three months paid maternity leave, one months paid paternity leave inclusive same-sex and adoptive parents
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Opportunity to help millions of people with their relationship

Hiring Process

• Application review 
• Initial Call with Riccardo (Head of Design) 
• Task Assignment - Complete a task at home which you will present to Riccardo and Agata (Sr. Product Designer)
• Team Interviews - The final step involves interviews with different team members you would be working with on a day-to-day basis

Diversity & Inclusion At Paired

• Our core value is championing relationships. Our app was built to serve all couples regardless of culture, gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity
• We strive to create an inclusive environment where unique perspectives are encouraged, as we firmly believe that diversity enhances our company, culture and product
• We regularly review our hiring processes, materials and pipeline to ensure they are accessible and free of bias, offering equal opportunity to underrepresented groups. We are also always learning. We maintain open minds and welcome feedback on how we can improve, no matter where it comes from