Senior Product Designer

About Sand

Sand Technologies is a fast-growing enterprise AI company that solves real-world problems for large blue-chip companies and governments worldwide.

We’re pioneers of meaningful AI : our solutions go far beyond chatbots. We are using data and AI to solve the world’s biggest issues in telecommunications, sustainable water management, energy, healthcare, climate change, smart cities, and other areas that have a real impact on the world. For example, our AI systems help to manage the water supply for the entire city of London. We created the AI algorithms that enabled the 7th largest telecommunications company in the world to plan its network in 300 cities in record time. And we built a digital healthcare system that enables 30m people in a country to get world-class healthcare despite a shortage of doctors.

We’ve grown our revenues by over 500% in the last 12 months while winning prestigious scientific and industry awards for our cutting-edge technology. We’re underpinned by over 300 engineers and scientists working across Africa, Europe, the UK and the US.

Our Track Record

We’ve built over 20 production-grade AI Solutions that are in active use by our clients today. These applications have fundamentally changed the way our customers run their operations. We have won multiple awards for the work we’ve done - including Water Productivity App of the Year and UK Data Science Project of the Year (2021).

Here is the mission

Our vision is to be famous for our modular, multi-channel AI and digital twin products that are configured and deployed quickly and easily across the world to enable meaningful change for clients, impacting billions of people.

To achieve this we are on the journey to becoming a product-led company, taking the lessons from solutions we’ve built and creating roadmaps for new product development. We have recruited a Chief Product Officer and are building product teams and creating domain roadmaps.

We are creating cross-functional Product teams in each of our industry domains with strong alignment between a Senior Product Manager and design, engineering and data science. The Senior Product Designer will be responsible for driving the success of our products, from conception to launch and beyond. This role requires a strong combination of technical knowledge, design & business acumen, and interpersonal skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and deliver exceptional products that meet market needs and align with our company's goals.

Our product team vision is for this to be the place where product people become experts, so they can take these skills with them forever and have flourishing and rewarding careers.

Your day-to-day

As a Senior Product Designer you will be responsible for a set of products within an industry. This includes the following activities.

Product Design :

• Lead design activities and communicate a clear product vision and strategy, by collaborating with the Product Managers, Business Analysts, Data Scientist & Developers
• Creating and maintaining design libraries and documentation
• Test and iterate on designs to improve the user experience
• Present and advocate for design decisions to stakeholders and users
• Gather and evaluate user requirements, by facilitating workshops sessions
• Participating in cross-functional initiatives, such as product strategy and marketing
• Ensure that designs meet business goals and technical constraints
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems
• Developing and implementing design processes and workflows
• Stay up-to-date on the latest design trends and technologies
• Considering the ethical implications of design decisions, and designing products and services that are responsible and beneficial to society

User Research :

The ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate should have a problem-solving mindset with design & user experience expertise, who wants to shape the growth of a major global scale-up. He or she should have a product mindset - with unwavering user focus and drive for scale.

Why join Sand Technologies

What we value

Performance : Demand black belt execution.

This Senior Product Designer position offers the opportunity to shape the future of our products, drive innovation, and make a significant impact on our company's success. If you are a strategic thinker, have a passion for product design, and thrive in a collaborative environment, we encourage you to apply.

Would you like to join us as we work hard, have fun and make history?

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