Founding Product Designer & Research - PFI
Product, Design
Shoreditch, London, UK
Posted on Jul 28, 2026
Founding Product Designer & Research - PFI
About Us
CompliMind is an AI compliance and assurance platform built for NHS estates and facilities teams. NHS Hopsitals are one of the most complex and critical infrastructures in the country. Our core offering to date has focused on patient and hospital safety, a critical issue. There is now an emerging need that is just as important. Private hospitals being handed back to the NHS.
Our work directly protects billions of pounds of public money and ensures patient safety as the UK faces its largest infrastructure transition in a generation. With over £60 billion in assets returning to public ownership and £140 billion in remaining UK unitary charges at stake, the NHS is at a critical turning point.
A single poorly managed contract handback risks a 10% to 15% value leakage and can dump unexpected remediation bills exceeding £10 million per hospital onto local Trusts to fix hidden structural, ventilation, or electrical defects. The software module you build will provide the data, oversight, and contractual levers needed to prevent these deficits, stop protracted legal disputes costing £50,000 per day, and ensure these vital healthcare facilities safely serve their communities for decades to come.
About the Role
This is a role that blends research, design and product ownership, working alongside a world-class team. You'll start by owning our Private Finance Initivative (PFI) module: researching how it works on the ground. From there you'll move into other parts of the product, with plenty of room to grow as we grow.
You'll spend lots of time on hospital sites with the teams who use what we build, understand how their work actually happens, then design and build it in code and get it in front of them. You iterate fast, watch how real users respond, and decide what makes the cut. Validated work gets handed to engineering to harden and commit to the live product.
How you build matters as much as what you build. We're agentic-first, so you'll be designing in Cursor and prototyping in real code alongside our engineers.
What You'll Own
Own an area end to end, from the raw problem to a proven, shipped part of the product, starting with PFI.
Get on-site and research how NHS estates, facilities and capital teams really work, not through a ticket.
Design in code, building working prototypes in Cursor, close to the engineers, so what you test is real.
Test and iterate fast, putting features in front of customers and deciding what's working.
Hand validated work to engineering to build the durable version, and stay close as they do.
What You'll Bring
Ideally, you've designed complex flows and can really grapple with challenging UX problems.
Experience designing in code or using AI coding tools isn’t necessary. A strong background in design and desire to learn this workflow is.
You can deal with ambiguity and a lot of ownership, which is always the case in a fast-moving startup.
You have experience leading research, translating those requirements into prototypes, iterating on them, and getting buy-in from the team.
Experience in NHS, healthcare, regulated industries or the built environment is a bonus, but curiosity and judgement matter more.
Why You'll Love Working with Us
Working location. The work is predominantly done in London, at our Shoreditch base opposite Hoxton station, which has a gym and plenty of room to build together. We're in person most of the time because we get our energy from being in the same room. Some of our engineers are in Cambridge, so you'll occasionally be there too, and out on hospital sites with the people who use what we build. Travel to Cambridge and to on-site visits is on us.
Meaningful equity, so you share the upside properly.
Real ownership from day one, not a backlog ticket.
Top token budgets and the freedom to build new AI workflows, so you're never rate-limited when you're deep in the work.
Private health insurance, plus reduced gym membership and wider wellbeing benefits.
Your choice of kit: laptop, screen, accessories, and a proper tablet for sketching and walking customers through prototypes on-site.
Competitive salary, backed by leading investors.
How to Apply
To apply, please send your CV and a short note on why this role suits you to marek@complimind.co.uk. Please also let us know how soon you are able to start.