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Reedsy
Design & Creative 45d ago

UX/UI Designer

Reedsy
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
BelgiumBelgium
FranceFrance
GermanyGermany
IrelandIreland
ItalyItaly
NetherlandsNetherlands
PolandPoland
PortugalPortugal
🌍Remote
SpainSpain
Full-time
£60K – £90K
Senior-Level

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About Reedsy

We’re here to give authors the tools and resources they need to create beautiful books. Our marketplace gathers the industry's best publishing professionals — the likes of Neil Gaiman's editor, Nora Roberts' book marketer, and GRRM’s cover designer.

We’ve grown to a community of 5,000,000 authors, and transformed the way people write and publish their book. Want to hop on board and help us get to our next destination? Cool, keep reading!

Responsibilities

As a UX/UI Designer, you will be working closely with our founders, Lead Designer and engineering team to craft beautiful interfaces and develop an outstanding user experience.

Working across multiple products, you will:

  • Design new user journeys, features and products;
  • Contribute to maintaining and evolving existing applications;
  • Design and maintain the components, UI patterns, and documentation for Reedsy’s design system and component library;
  • Develop (at least some of) the front-end for your designs and collaborate closely with our engineering team to ensure perfect implementation.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience as UX/UI designer and ability to implement (some of) your own designs;
  • You enjoy learning about complex concepts, dissecting them, and simplifying them for the team and ultimately users.
  • Knowledge of design tools such as Sketch or Figma;
  • Strong knowledge of interaction design, information architecture, and visual design principles;
  • A portfolio of design work;
  • Good, critical eye for detail;
  • Perfectly fluent in English, great communication skills;
  • Experience working remotely.

Bonus points

  • Experience working with fast-growing Series A – B startups;
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails;
  • Fluent in multiple languages. Reedsy welcomes applicants of all cultures and backgrounds;
  • A good dose of ambition, a willingness to learn, and a great sense of humor.

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Reedsy (operating under reedsy.com, legally Reedsy Limited) is the premier, enterprise-grade publishing ecosystem, freelance talent marketplace, and author tech powerhouse engineered to serve as the definitive, high-velocity manuscript curation, book design, and literary production layer for independent authors, bestselling novelists, and modern publishing houses globally. Founded in London by Emmanuel Nataf, Ricardo Fayet, Matthew Cobb, and Vincent Durand, the platform completely eliminates the severe systemic friction of traditional and self-publishing—where creators lose vital momentum navigating unvetted freelance networks, non-transparent pricing matrixes, and disjointed book formatters—by deploying an advanced, heavily curated multi-service workspace. Moving far beyond traditional, passive independent directory boards or generalist freelance marketplaces, Reedsy natively unifies a hand-vetted community of elite publishing professionals (including top-tier editors, award-winning cover designers, ghostwriters, translators, and book marketers), an automated request-for-proposal (RFP) bidding engine, collaborative online manuscript editing tools (Reedsy Studio), and a book discovery platform (Reedsy Discovery) into a single high-availability creator control plane. Serving over 1 million authors worldwide and managing thousands of successful book launches annually, the infrastructure coordinates multi-currency transactional Escrow frameworks, real-time revision tracking, and automated print-on-demand layouts with production-hardened systems precision. Backed by institutional seed capital from European powerhouses including Seedcamp, DN Capital, and DC Thomson Ventures, the organization maintains a highly autonomous, deeply distributed 100% remote global team. Under the hood, its technology core utilizes sophisticated matching logic to index professionals across genres, deep analytical tracking to ensure project protection, and export engines designed to compile clean, industry-standard EPUB and PDF distribution files. What sets Reedsy apart is its uncompromising dedication to replacing fragmented, ad-hoc creative contracting with absolute quality assurance, unbundled publishing flexibility, and narrative velocity; by bridging the gap between raw manuscript development and elite, production-grade retail execution, the enterprise remains the definitive cornerstone of modern algorithmic author technology and global independent publishing transformation.

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