Freelance Senior Product Designer

About Paired

At Paired, we’re on a mission to help couples stay in love. So we created a fun, safe, and award-winning app for couples who are already in love to explore their relationship, get to know one another in new ways, and ultimately grow together.

Our expert-backed questions, games and quizzes are designed to improve key relationship skills in just a few minutes each day. Because we know love is more than a feeling - it’s a choice that you have to make over and over again. 

Work Setup And Compensation

• Contract type: Freelance
• Location: Fully remote, reporting to our Head of Design, Riccardo
• Schedule: 4 or 5 days per week 
• Rate: £400 - £500 per day 

About The Role

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll join our Engagement Squad, focusing on delivering impactful design solutions for the Paired app while we search for a full-time team member. Your role will be critical in refining features, enhancing the user experience, and ensuring design excellence across the platform.

You’ll work closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and fellow designers to craft innovative features that delight our users and expand the app’s offerings.

What The Role Encompasses

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in iterative design cycles to test and refine new concepts.
• Translate ideas into high-fidelity mock-ups and prototypes that meet user needs and business goals.
• Develop rapid prototypes for user testing and internal review.
• Apply best practices in UX/UI design to create intuitive, engaging, and visually appealing interfaces.
• Clearly articulate design decisions to stakeholders, incorporating feedback into iterations.
• Contribute to and maintain our existing design system to ensure scalability and consistency.

Requirements

• Extensive background in designing for subscription-based apps, with a strong portfolio demonstrating UX, UI, and visual design skills
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing requirements, deliver high-quality work under tight deadlines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams
• High proficiency in Figma
• A self-starter mindset, with the ability to take ownership of tasks and propose innovative design solutions.
• Experience contributing to existing design systems to ensure scalability and consistency
• Ability to commit to the project with flexibility to adapt hours if required.
• A valid EU or UK passport or working permit

Hiring process

• Application Review: We’ll assess your qualifications, experience, and motivation.
• Initial Call: A short discussion about your background and the role.
• Design Task: Complete a task at home to showcase your execution skills.
• Team Interviews: Interviews with members of our Design and Product teams.
• Offer: Finalize the details and get started.

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