Product Designer (Edinburgh, UK)
About Us
We’re Dayshape—an award-winning software scale-up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firms globally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organisations to achieve extraordinary results.
Our platform stands apart as the only solution that combines advanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights to elevate resource management to a strategic function. By driving profitable growth, powering confident decisions, and ensuring satisfied clients and teams—we're helping our customers build strong organisations and careers for the long term.
Why our customers love Dayshape:
- We help professional firms optimise margins and increase revenue, unlocking access to more profitable work.
- We provide complete operational visibility today and the tools to confidently predict tomorrow.
- We empower firms to become the places where top talent wants to work - and the best clients want to work with.
Recognised as Scotland’s fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive years and more recently as the Enterprise Digital Tech Business of the Year at the 2024 ScotlandIS awards, we’ve consistently proven our ability to innovate and deliver real impact—and we’re always looking for like-minded people to join us.
At Dayshape, our purpose is to improve people's working lives, and our culture is an important driving force in helping us to do just that. We're a friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team—driven by our values and a shared commitment to success. If you’re ready to join a fast-growing, high-impact company that’s reimagining resource management, then let’s talk.
About the role
Are you looking for an opportunity to use and develop your design experience working on a complex and meaningful product used by tens of thousands of professionals?
We’re on the hunt for a Product Designer to help improve and extend our product functionality and user experience. You’ll work in a fast-paced growing environment helping to deliver customer improvements at pace, and we need someone who can balance short-term pragmatism with long-term ambition.
Working alongside two other Product Designers, this is a great opportunity for someone who wants to input into our overall product design vision, improve our design processes, and provide end-to-end design support to our engineering teams
What you’ll do
Working closely with our Product & Engineering teams you will be completing UX and UI design activities across the software development lifecycle.
- Take briefs from Product Managers and deliver logical, scalable and consistent design work that meet requirements and work within technical constraints.
- Help Product Managers and Engineers understand different solutions to problems, educating where necessary on the strengths and benefits to different approaches.
- Use your expertise to regularly provide ad hoc design guidance and advice to Engineers.
- Contribute to our growing UI kit and ensure greater consistency by using it over time.
- Suggest changes to our design process in an environment where your opinion will be heard.
- Aid Product Managers in feature discovery and design validation.
- Take an active role in Quality Assurance activities – reviewing implemented work against designs and providing clear feedback to Engineers.
- Be comfortable working with Figma and AI-powered tools to support and accelerate parts of the design process applying strong design judgement to ensure designs remain user‑centred and aligned with our product standards.
About you
- A good blend of visual, UI and UX skills – highly competent using Figma for high-fidelity designs, but equally comfortable sketching out user journeys on a whiteboard.
- Experience working on complex enterprise software flows – think dependencies, validation, accessibility and considering edge-cases.
- A team player – prepared to make compromises in the short-term for the better of the team, suggesting and tactically using different deliverables based on timescales and priorities.
- A drive to learn and improve, including being curious and pragmatic about emerging tools and techniques, with a focus on adding real value both individually but also for Dayshape and the design function.
- Self-assured – happy explaining why design decisions have been made and providing ad hoc feedback and advice to a large Engineering team
- Experienced engaging directly with internal stakeholders, end-users and customers – confident running customer interviews, design reviews and workshops, gathering feedback, and translating insights into practical design decisions, adapting your communication style to different audiences.
- Strong collaborator across disciplines, with the ability to build trusted relationships with Product, Engineering, and other internal stakeholders, and manage competing viewpoints constructively.
- Confident working with data – able to use qualitative and quantitative inputs to inform design decisions, and keen to help grow data informed design practices within the team.
- Keeps closely up to date with current UI trends and patterns, using this knowledge to strengthen the visual quality and usability of the product in a thoughtful, user centred way.
- Comfortable pushing visual quality while working within a design system, knowing when to challenge patterns and when consistency is the right trade-off.
- Proactive mindset and adaptability – Dayshape is a place where everyone can drive change if they take the initiative.
- Experience working on an established product – making incremental improvements to a live product with a large user base – not just experience in new products or greenfield features.
- Great at asking awkward questions, kindly.
- Comfortable using AI tooling as part of your day‑to‑day work, with a clear understanding of its strengths, limitations, and appropriate use cases.
Bonus points if you have:
- Experience in discovery and/or validation of design concepts with users e.g. usability testing.
- Basic technical awareness (e.g. HTML/CSS/front-end frameworks and data) to be able to understand technical concepts in conversation with Engineers.
- Prior experience, or awareness, in designing for accessibility.
- Awareness of basic resource management principles (time, management, scheduling, budgets) or ERP/ HCM software (e.g. Workday, Salesforce)
- Familiarity with UX laws, heuristics, and principles and the ability to apply them to make more informed design decisions.
- Experience using data to evaluate and iterate on designs, such as interpreting usage patterns, experiment results, or customer feedback trends.
What you’ll get
- Salary £34-48K, dependent on experience
- At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development
- 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days
- Paid four week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Private health insurance, including dental and vision benefits
- Income protection and death in service cover
- Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme
- Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
- Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work
- Regular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication
- Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, board games and at-home cocktail classes!
- Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company
Working Details
This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week). We typically work from 09:00 - 17:30 from Monday to Friday, though we can be flexible around this, just let us know. If you’d like a flexible working arrangement, please just let us know in your application.
We’re ideally looking for someone in/around Edinburgh. We're making the most of hybrid working, so you won't need to come into the office everyday (unless you want to!).
We don't mandate required office time, but we find that most of the team enjoy working from home 2-3 days a week, and come into our office to connect with each other, make use of space, and for meetings.
Join the team!
Equality of opportunity is more than just a responsibility: we believe it’s a huge advantage to welcome a variety of experiences and perspectives into the team. Diversity is a great asset and, as such, we strongly encourage applications from any background.
Everyone here is growing personally as the company grows, so if that sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we’d love to see your application. The deadline for applications is Tuesday 31st March, 5pm.
Please note the successful candidate for this role will be subject to background checks and will have an opportunity to declare anything to us beforehand.