Job Title: UIUX Lead Designer
Location: Dublin
Reporting to: Head of Product
Contract: Indefinite duration contract
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: €62,000 Per annum
About FoodCloud
FoodCloud has a vision for a world where no good food goes to waste, and the only thing bigger than our vision is our drive. We are an organisation of doers driven by kindness, fairness, and a desire to help people and the planet.
Would you like to join an organisation that is passionate about tackling food waste and increasing social inclusion in communities across Ireland and internationally? Are you an experienced UIUX lead designer who would like to work for one of Ireland's fastest-growing social enterprises? If this sounds like you, we have the ideal role here at FoodCloud.
We are working towards a goal of redistributing 1 billion meals that would have otherwise gone to landfill by 2030. We do this through our partnerships with food business and community organisations across Ireland, the UK, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Kenya with plans to expand to 9 other markets across Europe and Africa by 2030.
This role will report to the Head of Product but their responsibilities will cross multiple functions. 60% of the successful candidates' time will be spent building the vision for FoodCloud’s food redistribution app and delivering strategic outcomes through user research and design. The other 40% of their time will be spent supporting projects across the Marketing and Internal Systems teams: from branding & marketing campaigns to system design.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
1. Design Vision & Leadership
- Build and articulate a compelling vision for our technology products’ design that excites and energises customers and users.
- Champion the user throughout product and technology decision-making, ensuring user needs remain central to how we design our systems.
- Take full ownership of design delivery, from early discovery and concept development through to implementation.
- Contribute to, maintain and evolve design principles, guides and systems, particularly for our proprietary technology products.
- Build design capability and design thinking across the Product Development team, helping colleagues understand and apply user-centred design principles and advocating for high standards of UX across our technology.
2. User Research & Insight
- Plan and conduct user research to support the scoping and development of initiatives across the product roadmap.
- Use qualitative and quantitative data to understand user needs, behaviours and pain points, and embed these insights into design decisions.
- Translate research findings into clear design opportunities and recommendations for the wider product team.
3. UX & Product Design
- Clarify design goals, map user journeys and flows, prototype interactions, and work closely with engineers to ship polished product experiences.
- Create simple, intuitive and engaging user experiences through the thoughtful design of software features, workflows and interactions.
- Produce mock-ups, wireframes, prototypes and workflow maps to support collaboration with stakeholders and engineers on feature scope and design specifications.
- Map and maintain complex processes and workflows in clear, actionable documentation.
- Champion accessible and inclusive design, ensuring our products work effectively for users with different needs, capabilities, levels of digital confidence and operating contexts.
4. Product Collaboration & Delivery
- Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering and other stakeholders throughout discovery, design and delivery.
- Contribute to shared outcome delivery across the Product Development team, supporting FoodCloud’s ambition to enable 1 billion meals across 14 markets by 2030.
- Facilitate alignment around user needs, design decisions and trade-offs, helping teams move from ambiguity to clear, deliverable solutions.
5. Digital Brand & Wider Design Support
- Contribute to the design, ongoing development and optimisation of the FoodCloud website.
- Maintain, develop and evolve FoodCloud’s brand guidelines and digital assets.
- Support the occasional development of internal and external branded materials, presentations and other design assets.
6. Ways of Working
- Work collaboratively as part of a hybrid team, with an expectation of spending an average of two days per week in our Tallaght office.
- Undertake other duties as required in response to evolving business needs.
Skills & Experience
- Qualification in user centred design or similar
- 2+ years design experience and at least 1 year of lead experience is essential
- Must be a self starter: able to work autonomously and proactively
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills: Must be comfortable working across different stakeholders,, anticipating workload, prioritising accordingly and communicating expectations accordingly with stakeholders
- Must have experience leading design for an organisation
- Must inspire and delight product users and brand audiences
- Must be assertive - able to defend their design decisions and argue against poor decisions in a professional and friendly manner
- Must have strong presentation skills particularly when presenting design decisions based on user research
- Enterprise software design experience is required
- Knowledge of conceptual design, intuitive design and design systems
- Familiarity with jira, confluence and figma for documentation and workflow/wireframe design purposes. Familiarity with Claude and Replit is a bonus.
- Track record in using data analytics and user research methodologies to design user-centric and intuitive features
- Experience designing for native iOS, Android and Web
- Experience vibe coding prototypes
- Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
- Experience in e-commerce is desirable
Benefits Overview
- The role will be based in our Dublin Hub and we can also offer flexible working arrangements, such as working from home, in line with role requirements. The expectation will be that the successful candidate will work on average 2 days a week from the Tallaght office.
- We are very proud of our culture, and our vision, mission and values which you can read more about on our website and on social media channels
- We are dedicated to supporting all colleagues in their development with a breadth of training, mentoring and experiences available. This spans a range of learning and development programmes, continued focus on wellbeing and direct support on qualifications and personal improvement plans
- Pension contribution: matching up to 5% of an employee's salary
- Tax Saver, Income Protection, Bike to Work Scheme, discounted gym and sports club memberships, and more
If this sounds like your ideal role, we would like to hear from you. Please include your CV and Cover Letter and use the link to apply now! The closing date for applications is September 4th 2026.
