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# Senior Product Designer at Beam

- **Company:** Beam
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Compensation:** £85k–£115k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-01
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/beam-up/fab75975-5636-413f-9ce5-e41c82424111

## Job description

At Beam, we’re building AI that serves society.

We're a global team of ambitious, hardworking problem solvers, applying fast-moving startup energy to work that makes the world a better place. If you want to apply your talent to the biggest problems society faces, Beam is the place for you.

You’ll be part of a high-performance culture where you'll make a huge impact, rapidly progress your career, and truly enjoy your work.

Over 100,000 frontline workers already use Beam to take notes, provide live interpretation and handle phone calls, so they can focus on the people who need them most. This is just the beginning.

About the role: Frontline workers do some of society’s hardest, most consequential work. Yet the tools they rely on are often clunky, outdated and poorly designed. Our challenge is to bring the world’s most advanced technology to some of society’s most complex, human problems — without making the technology itself feel complex. It should feel ‘dictaphone simple’: something anyone can pick up, use without thinking, and put down again, trusting that it’s done its job. And it should be designed with the same care, craft and delight as the best consumer products. Beam Notes already saves over 100,000 frontline workers hours of admin every week — and caseworkers tell us it makes the job feel human again, with more time to focus on people, not paperwork. Now we’re bringing that same approach to new products and users. To do that we’re building out a world-class design team - so if the challenge of creating beautifully simple tools powered by cutting edge technology sounds up your street, we’d love to meet you.

You will:

- Own design end-to-end, working closely with product and engineering. That means talking to users, taking ideas from sketch to delightful software, shipping frequently and iterating.
- Design with engineers on AI capabilities, translating what the latest models can do into practical, high-impact product features
- Talk directly to users in the field, visiting caseworkers and social workers, watching how they actually work, and feeding that back into design decisions
- Evolve our design system, creating new patterns and conventions where none exist yet
- Craft beautiful interactions so the product feels fast, reliable and a pleasure to use

You are:

- A product-first generalist who's cut their teeth at a fast-paced startup or product-led tech company
- Data-informed and outcome-focused, balancing high-fidelity craft with quick mock-ups that engineers can build from
- Great at translating ambiguity into simple flows, you untangle vague, conceptual problems into interfaces people immediately understand
- A confident communicator and storyteller, able to align a room around a direction using both visuals and data
- Someone with strong beliefs, loosely held, a good listener who takes feedback well and reaches better decisions because of it
- Comfortable working directly with engineers and PMs, sparring on trade-offs and briefs that raise more questions than answers
- Motivated by the mission, excited by the idea that your work directly improves essential public services

We're looking for the best Senior+ Designers - if you're more senior than this please still apply and we can have a conversation about levelling. Our process

- Talent screen (30 minutes)
- Case study deep dive with 2 of the Product team (90 minutes)
- White boarding session with 2 of the Product team (60 minutes)
- Founder interview (45 minutes)

## About Beam

We’ve picked up an armful of [awards](https://beam.org/awards) for our work, including one from our former Queen. We've also been named by WIRED as one of London's [10 hottest startups](https://www.wired.co.uk/article/london-hottest-startups-2021) and by LinkedIn as a [Top 15 UK Startup](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linkedin-top-startups-2022-15-uk-companies-rise-linkedin-news-uk/?trackingId=9TqxvkXTjF2HSPvSIWLczw%3D%3D). Meanwhile, we've been covered in the media literally thousands of times, including the likes of [The FT, BBC, TechCrunch, Forbes and The Guardian](https://beam.org/press).

We’re also proud to be backed by some of the world's leading tech investors and entrepreneurs, including the founders of [Booking.com](http://Booking.com), Calm, Shazam and Dropbox.

Start your journey to a more impactful career today. We're excited to hear from you.

Reasonable adjustments: Beam is committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and supportive work environment for all employees. This policy extends to our hiring practices. We recognise that some candidates may need additional support during their hiring process to give them the best chance of being a success. To ensure that all candidates have an equitable opportunity during their process, we are committed to providing reasonable adjustments where required. If you require a reasonable adjustment to be made during your process, please let your Talent Partner know. We encourage you to share this information, but there is no obligation to do so. Please be reassured that any reasonable adjustment requests will not be taken into account when making a decision about your candidacy.

## About Beam

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Beam builds AI-powered software and delivers frontline services to help government welfare teams and social workers reduce administrative burdens and improve outcomes.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Mission-driven startup, revenue-generating)
- **Headquarters**: London, UK (Hoxton office)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Not publicly identified on the website or job page; the team is described as coming from startups, government, and frontline services.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Government Technology (GovTech) / Social Impact / Human Services Software
- **Target customers**: B2G (Business to Government); specifically local authorities, social care teams, housing services, employment support, mental health services, and other public service organizations.
- **Mission statement**: “To build brighter welfare systems globally” and “build brighter services for humanity.” The company is focused on bringing the benefits of AI to public services and the communities they serve.

## Products & Services
- **Notes**: AI-powered case notes, documents, and insights for frontline teams. Reduces admin time (claim: admin time halved, documents submitted 60% faster). Uses AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit.
- **Interpret**: Live, two-way translation in all major languages, enabling efficient communication with diverse service users.
- **Talk**: Custom voice agents that resolve inbound calls and capture intake details 24/7.
- **Frontline Services (Direct Delivery)**: Since 2017, Beam’s own caseworkers have supported over 7,000 people to achieve life-changing outcomes, delivering services via smartphones. This gave them frontline experience to build their software.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Over 350 frontline teams use Beam; the tech is used in over 150,000 meetings each week; trusted by over 80,000 frontline workers across hundreds of government partners.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: The website lists government partnerships across the UK, Europe, Australia, and the US. Specific investors are not named on the career page or main site.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid expansion from UK local government into housing, employment, and mental health services in 2024. Formal launch of an office in Melbourne, Australia in 2025, and a US HQ in Flatiron, New York. The company is experiencing inbound demand from international partners, with a waiting list.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Frontline-built technology**: Beam’s unique differentiator is that their software is built by former frontline workers (their own caseworkers) who have firsthand experience with the admin challenges, making the tools highly practical and user-friendly.
- **AI-first for public sector**: In 2024, they claim to have built the world’s first AI tools specifically for frontline caseworkers, putting them ahead in the GovTech AI space.
- **Security & Compliance**: Government-grade security (AES-256 encryption, TLS 1.3, RBAC, customer-defined data retention). Data is never used to train models without consent and is stored on UK servers.
- **Bespoke implementations & integrations**: Expertise in unique frontline workflows, with high-touch onboarding and custom integrations.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI for the frontline**: Beam is heavily investing in AI tools (Notes, Interpret, Talk) to automate admin, reduce burnout, and free up caseworkers for human conversations.
- **Global expansion**: Active growth in the US (New York HQ) and Australia (Melbourne office) after strong UK adoption.
- **Product ecosystem**: Expanding from case notes into voice agents and translation, creating an end-to-end platform for public service delivery.
- **Social impact**: Core mission-driven strategy, aiming to solve “the world's toughest social issues” with technology.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven impact**: Employees (“Beamers”) know they are making a difference by improving welfare systems and directly helping underserved people.
- **Ambitious, high-performing team**: Company culture emphasizes “ambition and humility in equal measure,” with high levels of ownership and fast learning.
- **Hybrid working (UK)**: Work between the Hoxton, London office and home. The US (NY) and Australia offices also appear to be hybrid.
- **Market-leading compensation**: Competitive pay, EMI-qualifying share options, and a £200/year wellbeing budget.
- **Perks**: Private healthcare (GP 24/7, physiotherapy, diagnosis), access to Oliva wellbeing support and Calm app, onsite gym membership covered, financial coach (1-1 sessions), sabbatical (up to 6 weeks after 3 years), up to 30 days holiday plus public holidays, salary sacrifice schemes (bike, tech, nursery).
- **Meaningful work**: Employees report high levels of satisfaction from solving real societal issues at scale.

## Sources
1. [Beam Official Website](https://beam.org/)
2. [Beam About Page](https://beam.org/about)
3. [Beam Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/beam-up)
4. [Beam LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/wearebeam)
5. [Beam US About Page](https://beam.org/en-us/about)

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