About Artificial

We’re building technology for the next generation of specialty insurers and brokers.

At Artificial, our mission is clear: to build the specialty (re)insurance landscape of the future. Our pioneering technology is revolutionising how insurers and brokers operate in complex markets. By removing the mundane and repetitive, we're paving the way for opportunity, innovation and efficiency in the industry.

At Artificial, you’ll be working with talented people, using the latest technology in an environment where learning is supported. As an outcomes-focused business, taking ownership is not only expected but embraced, meaning the opportunity to create meaningful change is within your power.

In 2024 we secured £8M in Series A+ funding, led by Europe’s premier publicly listed fintech fund, Augmentum Fintech, with participation from existing investors MS&AD Ventures and FOMCAP IV. We work with some of the world’s leading brokers and top-performing insurers in London and beyond.

About the team

👋 Here are a few notes from me (Jon, VP of Design) about why you should consider joining the Design team at Artificial:

A world-class design engineering team: There are three of us on the design team. We all have a hybrid design/product/engineering background and 10+ years of experience. I think we are pretty good at what we do.

Remote, flexible, async first: Although the company HQ is in London, we’ve built our team to be remote first, with a heavy emphasis on creating space for deep, uninterrupted work and rigorous thinking.

AI-obsessed: Not only does our product heavily use AI, but as a team, we are continually learning, sharing, and pushing each other to stay on the cutting edge of the changes ripping through our industry.

Huge autonomy and ownership; minimal bureaucracy: The design team has direct responsibility for our platform’s (React) frontend. We work closely with backend/full-stack engineers to ship design/code directly to the product—no waterfall-y handovers to engineering teams!

Design is a key differentiator for the business: There’s genuine backing for design here. We have a big voice in product strategy decisions and work closely with Artificial’s co-CEO (who has a design/product background).

Cutting-edge technology; real-world customers: Our underlying backend technology is genuinely innovative and is actively used by multiple global insurance companies. We’ve been around for a while and have a strong reputation in the insurance space.
I am really excited about the potential of this business, team, and technology. We have no shortage of challenging design problems to solve, but we're in the perfect place to do so.

2025 will be fantastic fun—I’d love for you to join us!

Your role and responsibilities

We use an adapted Shape Up methodology, alternating between major new feature development ("Bets") and ongoing iterative improvements.

• Lead discovery and shaping phases: defining customer problems and identifying high-level solutions in collaboration with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Build working prototypes using React, our existing codebase, and sometimes Figma.
• Adapt existing components to create UX flows and high-fidelity visuals.
• Own design direction on cross-functional Bet teams. You’ll be responsible for the quality of the end-user experience and finding elegant design solutions to complex problems.
• Improve product usability and performance through iterative improvements (often in collaboration with other teams).
• Expand our React-based design system (of components and primitives) using Storybook.
• Participate in weekly design critiques and ad-hoc design pairing sessions with other team members.
• Help champion the role of design across the business.
  

About you

Essential 

• You’ve worked as a designer for 8+ years.
• You thrive in a scale-up environment, where you'll have significant autonomy but must balance multiple priorities and customer needs.
• You're proficient in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and React. While you won't be expected to lead frontend engineering, you can contribute to production-quality experiences and understand how design choices impact frontend engineering feasibility, performance and maintainability.
• You excel at advocating for your ideas—both verbally and in writing—while remaining receptive to feedback and adapting your approach to ship effective solutions.

Desirable

• Experience building and maintaining design systems (and use of primitive components).
• Experience designing for complex domains (e.g. insurtech, fintech or healthcare) and on B2B SaaS products.
• Experience working in distributed teams at startups/scale-ups.
• Although the design team is distributed, we aim to meet face-to-face when it makes sense. Ideally, you’ll be willing and able to visit our office in London occasionally. 
  

Benefits (location dependent)

• Up to £100,000 annual base salary
• Private medical insurance
• Income protection insurance
• Life insurance of 4 * base salary
• On-site gym and shower facilities
• Team social events and company parties
• Salary exchange on pension and nursery fees
• Access to Maji, the financial wellbeing platform
• Milestone Birthday Bonus and a Life Events leave policy
• Generous holiday allowance of 28 days plus national holidays
• Home office and equipment allowance, and a company MacBook
• Learning allowance and leave to attend conferences or take exams
• YuLife employee benefits, including EAP and bereavement helplines
• For each new hire, we plant a tree through our partnership with Ecologi Action
• The best coffee machine in London, handmade in Italy and imported just for us!

We're an equal opportunities employer, with a strong commitment to hiring from the rich diversity within our local communities. If you’d like to request a reasonable adjustment to the hiring process, please do let us know at any time and feel free to let us know your preferred pronouns. If you feel that you don’t tick all the boxes of requirements, please do apply anyway - Artificial recognise the value of raw talent. Please be aware as part of the application process we’ll be carrying out various background checks. These may include a criminal records check, checking your credit history, contacting your previous employers and/or verifying your academic qualifications.