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Zealous is a UK-based submissions management platform used by 500+ arts organisations and 180,000+ creators worldwide. Our clients include the Saatchi Gallery, the British Library, and Cass Arts. We handle the end-to-end process for awards, open calls, grants, residencies, and art fairs – all in one place. We’ve been building for 15 years and we’re a team of fourteen.
This is not a short-term project – if successful you will be a core member of our team.
We’re hiring our first dedicated Product Designer. Until now, design at Zealous has meant UI execution – implementing specs, building components, keeping things consistent. What we haven’t had is someone who takes a brief, shapes the flow, prototypes how it should work, and partners with engineering to ship it well. That’s this role.
You’ll work directly with our UK-based Founder and PM, who continue shaping product direction and writing briefs. You’ll turn those briefs into the designs we build, and work closely with our frontend lead on handoff. Over time – as you build context – we’d like you to grow into user research, building out our design system, and shaping product thinking earlier. You’ll be the only designer in the room – your decisions ship directly, without hundreds of layers of review. That’s a growth path, not a day-one expectation.
How we work
Fully remote, Sunday–Thursday. Core hours are 9–5 Egypt time but we’re genuinely flexible – several of us work around young kids, and we care about the work getting done well, not clock-watching.
Day to day responsibilities
- Take briefs from the PM and Founder and turn them into well-structured user flows, wireframes, and interactive Figma prototypes
- Work closely with our frontend lead on handoff – communicate design intent clearly, answer questions during build, and review what ships against what was designed
- Keep our Figma workspace organised and maintainable as it grows – consistent components, sensible naming, files others can find their way around
- Sit in design review alongside our frontend lead, flagging feasibility issues and edge cases before things are committed
- Raise questions early when a brief is unclear or something doesn’t add up – we’d rather hear it upfront than discover it in engineering
Growth path over 12–18 months:
- Run user research and testing sessions directly with organisers, artists, and judges
- Build out a lightweight design system our UI developers can work from without asking
- Shape product thinking earlier – helping us decide what to build, not just how it should look
The Offer
- £1,300–£1,400/month paid in GBP – stable against local currency fluctuation
- Health insurance contribution
- 21 days paid holiday plus Egyptian public holidays
- Work within an Egypt-based team but to the standards of a UK product company
- Direct access to the Founder, the PM, and the product roadmap
- A clear growth path as you take on more ownership
- Work that reaches 500+ arts organisations and 180,000 creators worldwide
Practical details:
- Direct contractor engagement. You’ll handle your own tax and social insurance – salary accounts for it, and the team can share their experiences
- Use your own laptop to start; we’ll provide a company machine after three months
- Application to offer within one month
Job Requirements
Must-haves:
- 3+ years of Product Design or UI/UX Design experience – ideally some time on a SaaS product with more than one type of user
- A portfolio showing clean, thoughtful Figma work and shipped product – we care more about clarity of thinking than polish of pixels
- Strong Figma craft – components, auto-layout, interactive prototypes, tidy files
- Clear written and verbal English – you’ll be reporting to a UK-based Founder and most of our collaboration happens async in writing
- Comfort working directly with engineers and understanding when a design decision creates a build problem
- Self-management – you can run your own time and priorities without being chased
- Design for how things work, not just how they look
- Willing to raise problems early rather than solve around them quietly
Bonus points:
- Experience running user research or testing (Maze, Useberry, Lookback or similar)
- Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG)
- Exposure to complex form-heavy or multi-role workflows – where getting the logic right matters as much as the layout
- A view on where AI tooling is changing design practice, and where it isn’t
- Care about the creative sector we serve
