Senior Product Designer

Job Title:

Senior Product Designer

Location:

Very flexible - we’re happy for folks to work WFH and lots of us do. We only ask that you come into our London office a couple of times a month for team strategy days and socials - but of course, you're more than welcome to come in as much as you like! (+ we're working a 4 day work week - Fridays off!)

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Contract:

Permanent

Salary: £65,000 - £72,500 + benefits listed below

We're on a mission to give everyone affordable access to a car anytime, anywhere 🚙

We offer short-term car insurance through our world-class app, creating truly flexible products that meet people’s real needs. Using lightning-fast technology to unlock better experiences and fairer prices for our customers, Cuvva is building the future of insurance every day.

Cuvva was the first to sell hourly insurance via an app in the UK back in 2016. And we haven’t stopped innovating since. We’ve sold over 13 million policies, and supported over 1 million drivers and we’re just getting started. We’re a team of 100 people, passionate about solving our customers’ problems. Join us. 🚀

At Cuvva, we run lean and highly collaborative, cross-functional product teams. As our new Senior Product Designer, reporting to Product Leadership, you’ll initially join our internal product incubator squad which focuses on exploring and developing new product opportunities for the business.

The team operates with a fast-pace and values autonomy and action, balancing discovery, delivery and is well suited to designers who are comfortable working through ambiguity, testing ideas quickly and learning through iteration.

Each product team owns their area of the Cuvva product end to end, with a high degree of autonomy & accountability. Teams are made up of a Product Designer, cross-disciplinary engineers, dedicated Product & Engineering Managers.

At Cuvva, people come from a wide range of backgrounds & bring different but complementary skill sets. Within Product, you’re not required to have a university degree, many of us are self-taught.

• Design:
  Figma.
• Prototyping:
  Figma Make, v0
• Research & insight generation:
  Perplexity, Claude/ChatGPT, User Testing, Typeform.
• Collaboration:
  
  Notion, Shortcut, Miro, Fig Jam, Slack, Google Meet.
• Eng collaboration & Handoff:
  Figma Dev Mode alongside proactive conversations.
• Data:
  Mixpanel/Looker

As a Senior Product Designer at Cuvva, you’ll own & shape the end-to-end design process within your product area, from problem discovery & hypothesis setting, through to prototyping & validation, to delivery, measurement & iteration. You’ll collaborate closely with Product Managers, fellow Designers & Engineers to craft thoughtful, data-informed user experiences that balance customer needs with commercial impact.

You’ll design & prototype high-quality UI solutions, contribute to our design system & use research, analytics & experimentation to continuously improve our products. Your work will directly influence the direction of your product area within the Cuvva platform, ensuring experiences are accessible, inclusive & built to scale.

At Cuvva, we care deeply about building well-crafted experiences. In this role, you’ll bring strong design judgement, a customer‑centric mindset & the confidence to challenge thinking where needed, helping your team solve real problems through research, collaboration + iteration.

Partnership is central to how we work. You’ll operate as a true partner to Product Managers & Engineering, fostering a constructive & open environment where design is a shared responsibility & a driver of meaningful outcomes.

In this role, a passion for your craft is essential, alongside the ability to balance creativity with commercial outcomes. You’ll bring a strategic mindset, quickly building context while making informed design challenges that help your team think differently & make better decisions.

• Own the full design lifecycle for your product area, from discovery through to delivery & iteration.
• Frame problems clearly, aligning on user needs, constraints & what success looks like.
• Explore…