Overview

Product Designer role at Pod, a leading UK EV charging provider.

Location: London. Compensation: £60,000 - £70,000 per year.

We’re Pod – one of the UK’s leading EV charging providers, trusted by over 250,000 customers and powering more than 5 million miles every day. We’re part of the EDF Family and are focused on shaping a smarter, more sustainable energy future.

About Pod

We started in 2009 as Pod Point, helping people switch to electric as EVs began to grow. Today we’re leading the way into a smarter energy future. Our focus is on powering homes, vehicles, and local communities while balancing the grid and making clean energy accessible to everyone. We’re proud to work with brands like Mercedes, Jaguar Land Rover, BMW, Kia; home builders Barratt and Bellway; and retailers including Tesco. Pod is the next evolution of Pod Point, helping build a brighter future for society by managing energy flow and making it affordable and accessible.

Ways of Working

We value flexibility, community, and work-life balance. Our hybrid model combines home and office work. You can expect to work from our London office between 8-12 days per month. The successful applicant should be reasonably commutable to our Gray’s Inn Road office (London, WC1X 8HB).

Role description

As a Product Designer at Pod, you’ll craft seamless digital experiences across our products and platforms. You’ll work in a cross-functional team with product managers, engineers, and fellow designers to bring our brand and values to life.

You’ll also be responsible for:

• Designing end-to-end product experiences across mobile apps (primary focus), web tools, website, and internal platforms.
• Leading interaction and motion design, creating animations and micro-interactions that enhance usability.
• Championing accessibility and inclusive design, embedding best practices into every design.
• Owning and evolving our design language—building on brand guidelines and growing our design system for consistency, scalability, and accessibility.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape solutions from discovery through delivery.
• Creating developer-ready Figma files that are slick, organized, and system-aware.
• Using Miro to facilitate workshops, map research insights, and co-create solutions.
• Planning and running user research and usability testing to validate ideas and refine product experiences.
• Using data, insights, and feedback to guide design decisions and improve product performance.

Electrify us with your skills

We’re looking for someone with a background in Product Design with a strong focus on mobile apps. The following are desired:

• A portfolio showing end-to-end product design work with emphasis on mobile, including interaction/motion design and accessibility.
• Deep expertise in Figma—highly organized, scalable files.
• Proven experience with Miro for workshops, research synthesis, and collaboration.
• Hands-on experience building, maintaining, and evolving design systems at scale.
• Strong understanding of WCAG guidelines, accessibility standards, and inclusive design practices.
• Customer-centric approach—grounding design decisions in user needs while balancing business goals.
• Experience collaborating with developers in agile product teams, ensuring smooth handoff from design to build.
• Confidence in running research and usability testing from planning to synthesis.
• Strong facilitation skills to align stakeholders and guide decisions.
• Experimental mindset—curious, adaptable, and open to new approaches and tools (including AI in design workflows).
• Positive, proactive, and collaborative attitude.

Bonus experience (not required, but advantageous):

• Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite or frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Flutter) to better collaborate with developers.
• Knowledge of A/B testing, experimentation, or analytics tools.
• Strong storytelling skills to advocate for design concepts and product vision.

Perks

• Salary of £60,000 - £70,000 DOE
• Access for you and up to 5 family/friends to the UnMind wellbeing platform
• Flexible hybrid working model
• Work abroad for up to 20 days per year
• Salary Sacrifice EV Scheme and free Pod Point
• Family & friend discount scheme
• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays)
• Generous parental and family leave
• Pension scheme with a 4.5% matched contribution
• Eyecare scheme
• Life insurance up to 4x annual salary
• Virtual GP via HealthHero
• Employee Assistance Program
• Free Mortgage Advice
• Discounted Gym Memberships
• Cycle2Work Scheme

Important Information

You must have the legal right to work in the UK. We celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds. Your privacy is important to us; all information shared will be handled according to our Candidate Privacy Notice.

Application details

Location: London, England, United Kingdom