Founding Product Designer (UX, UI & Research)
Bite Engineering, London
Bite Engineering, London
Despite billions in annual revenue, contractors only keep ~2%. Bite puts contractors' data to work at tender and through delivery, so the bid price rests on evidence and the margin predicted at tender is the margin realised.
Join Bite as our first in-house designer. You'll own the entire design function and turn a working prototype into an experience bid and risk teams trust with a live tender, and site teams keep using through years of delivery. This role is for a hands-on designer who makes complex data and tooling feel simple, and who deeply cares about clarity and usability. You don't need to have worked in construction, and nobody expects you to arrive knowing what a bill of quantities is. We'll teach you.
You'll work closely with Florence Jumpp, our CPO, who was founding product manager on BeZero Carbon's risk-pricing platform for carbon markets and who studied psychology at Oxford. You'll also work with Phil Cowans, our fractional CTO, who co-founded Songkick and Nested as CTO and studied Bayesian machine learning at Cambridge (the maths behind probabilistic risk pricing).
Don't rule yourself out if you haven't worked in construction; we hire for craft and judgement.
Today, contractors set the risk premium on instinct: a top-50 risk register in Excel, scored by hand, with treatments that are often suboptimal and rarely followed through. Decades of completed-project data sit in archives that are never really used, and nine in ten construction projects still run over budget or schedule.
Bite ingests the whole tender pack, auto-builds the risk register for the team to review, and prices it with Monte Carlo simulation reconciled against a reference class of similar completed projects. Through delivery, an AI auditor tracks risks and treatments, and every completed project improves the next tender.
The problem is genuinely hard. A tender pack is thousands of pages of drawings, specifications, contracts and bills of quantities, with a tight deadline for bids. Bite turns it into a risk register and a priced bid for the director signing off the bid, then keeps it alive for the site team treating those risks years later. Both are experts, sceptical of AI, who will ask where every number came from. Making that working legible without burying them in text is a design problem as much as a modelling one.
You'll own the UX/UI for the whole product, not a slice of it. There's no design team to inherit, no legacy UI and no feature factory to work around: just a prototype nobody is precious about. You set the direction, the patterns and the quality bar, and you'll prototype, test and ship rapidly with a small team that can pivot, fast.
You'll design it in the room with the customer. We're co-developing the product on real data with some of the world's largest general contractors. You'll hear what works and what doesn't directly from bid and risk teams.
Bite Engineering is an Equal Employment Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other legally protected status. We want people from all walks of life to feel valued for their individuality, thrive in our business and share a sense of belonging. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, let us know.
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