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Early Years Apprenticeship Scheme – at any of our Fennies Nurseries   * Salary: Up to £27,262 per year   * Bonus: Potential to earn a further £1,000 in bonus  * 4-day or 5-day working week available    Start your career in early years while gaining a recognised qualification.   At Fennies, we believe great childcare starts with great people. You don’t need previous nursery experience to join us – just a genuine passion for working with children and a willingness to learn.  As an Early Years Apprentice, you’ll earn while you learn, gaining hands-on experience in a nursery while working towards your Level 2 Early Years Practitioner qualification with a leading training provider.    Why join Fennies?  We support our apprentices with great benefits, structured training and clear career progression.    Competitive salary and bonus  * Up to £27,262 annual salary  * Performance-related bonuses up to £1,000  * £500 referral bonus  * Childcare discount    Work-life balance  * Choice of a 4-day or 5-day working week  * 20 days annual leave increasing by 1 day per year of service (up to 25) plus bank holidays    Wellbeing benefits  * BUPA Wellbeing Support  * Free daily meals from the Fennies Café  * Summer BBQs, Christmas events, company celebrations and Apprentice Week events  * Recognition and reward through the Fennies Club long service awards    Career development  * Work towards the Level 2 or 3 Early Years Practitioner qualification  * Structured apprenticeship programme (typically 12 months)  * Dedicated trainer with regular coaching and check ins  * Blended learning, including on-the-job training, workshops and online sessions  * Support to progress to Level 3 Early Years Educator  * Personalised development plans, mentoring and support    About the Role  As an Early Years Apprentice, you’ll work as part of a supportive team while learning the skills needed to become a qualified early years professional.    You will:  * Support children aged 0-5 during play, learning activities and daily routines  * Help create experiences that encourage curiosity and development  * Work alongside experienced educators to keep the nursery safe, organised and welcoming  * Build warm relationships with children and their families  * Support children’s confidence, independence and wellbeing  * Learn how to observe children’s development and contribute to their learning journeys    You’ll gain real experience every day, helping children grow through play, exploration and meaningful interactions.    Your Apprenticeship journey with Fennies  This is a structured training programme designed to set you up for long-term success in early years.  During your apprenticeship, you will:  * Learn essential skills in child development, safeguarding and early years practice  * Complete off-the-job training (around 6 hours per week) alongside your role  * Build a portfolio of evidence to demonstrate your progress  * Receive regular support from your trainer and Nursery mentor  * Complete an End Point Assessment (EPA) to achieve your qualification    Upon completion, you’ll be a qualified Early Years Practitioner with opportunities to progress at Fennies or the wider early years sector.    What we’re looking for  You don’t need previous nursery experience – we’ll provide the training and support you need.  We’re looking for someone who is:  * Friendly, patient and caring  * Interested in working with children  * A positive team player who enjoys working with others  * Reliable and motivated to learn new skills  * Ideally you will have Maths and English (Grade 4/C or above) or a willingness to work towards them.    Most importantly, you bring enthusiasm, curiosity and a desire to build a meaningful career.    Who is this role perfect for  An Apprenticeship could be a great fit if you:  * Are you starting your career after school or college  * Want to earn while gaining a qualification  * Are you looking to start a meaningful career  * Have experience in care roles and enjoy working with people  * Have worked as a teaching assistant, nanny or babysitter  * Looking for a career change into childcare/education  * Want a role where every day is active, rewarding and different  * Want to join a company that is committed to building exceptional places to work.    You don’t need previous nursery experience – we’ll provide the training and support you need to succeed.    Become part of the Fennies DNA  We’re family-owned and family-run; this guides our culture, our decision-making, and what it feels like to be part of our team. We have a strong sense of community, with connections that bring us together and the systems and processes that mean our educators can focus on what they do best. Quality matters to us – starting with our people and curriculum - through to our beautiful buildings and inspiring environments. We’re investing in Fennies, in our teams, and into the education we provide our children. Our People Promise inspires us to build the kind of culture that is ambitious, passionate and supportive. We provide the environment where you can:  * Be Yourself  * Come Together  * Be All In  * Go Further  If this sounds like you, or you just want to know more about what it means to be part of the Fennies family, make contact with us today for a chat.    Take your next steps with Fennies  Our friendly Talent Recruitment team are here to answer any questions you may have about Fennies – call us to discuss the role, or if you’re just curious about what it’s like to work at Fennies, let us know, and we’ll be happy to answer any questions. Our Talent Recruitment team can be contacted by:  Phone: 0208 770 3222  By email: recruitment@fennies.com  Or by making an application: https://fennies.com/contact-us    Diversity and Inclusion  At Fennies, we celebrate diversity and believe inclusive teams create stronger learning environments for children. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.    Safeguarding  Fennies is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All successful applicants will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check and provide proof of identity. In line with Safer Recruitment guidance, online searches (including social media) may be conducted for shortlisted candidates.    IGREEN #LI-DNI  Apprentice 9

SUMMARY OF THE ROLE: As a Product Designer at Maze, you'll define what product design looks like for AI agents in cybersecurity — a problem space where the design patterns don't exist yet. This is an early-hire role at a well-funded Series A startup building at the intersection of generative AI and security, and you'll own the product surface end-to-end while working directly with our Head of Product, engineering, and founders. The product challenge is genuinely new. Our AI agents investigate vulnerabilities autonomously, surface findings with real context, and collaborate with security teams to cut through noise. Your job is to design how humans and agents work together — how trust gets built, how decisions get communicated, how complex security workflows become understandable. There's no playbook for this. You'll create one. This role suits someone who operates closer to a product director than a screen-shipper — driving direction, influencing strategy, and making business-impact calls, alongside the visual craft to deliver them. You'll be using AI tools daily to move faster, but your craft is the floor: every design choice should hold up on its own merits, independent of how it was generated. Success looks like a design system shipped and adopted across the product, and concrete product outcomes — feature adoption, POC-to-customer conversion, and customer satisfaction with the experiences you ship. YOUR CONTRIBUTION: * Define AI-Agent UX Patterns: Design how security teams collaborate with autonomous AI agents — how investigations get presented, how trust is established, how humans steer the agent without slowing it down. You're inventing patterns, not applying existing ones. * Drive Product Direction, Not Just Design: Operate as a product-led designer — shaping roadmap, challenging requirements, influencing leadership with research and business reasoning. The bar is "what should we build, and why" alongside "how should it look." * Own the Product Surface End-to-End: Take features from problem framing through shipped product, working in tight partnership with PMs and engineers — including backend. Run discovery, prototype rapidly, validate with customers, and stay close to implementation. No throwing designs over the wall, no shipping around the engineering team. * Build the Design System: Create and scale a component-based design system that becomes the foundation for everything we ship. Establish patterns for AI-human collaboration that the team can build on as we grow. * Pioneer AI-Assisted Design Workflows: Use AI tools to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and exploration — and develop the methodologies the rest of the team will adopt. Your daily workflow is itself a contribution. * Translate Research Into Design: Run customer research, talk to security teams directly, and turn what you learn into shipped product. Use AI-assisted analysis to move from insight to prototype in days, not weeks. * Set the Quality Bar: Establish what "good" looks like for product design at Maze across craft, consistency, and customer impact — as the foundation for a design team that scales behind you. WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL: * Visual Craft for Data-Dense UI: A portfolio that holds up to detailed scrutiny — strong colour theory, deliberate visual hierarchy, considered information architecture for complex workflows. This is the bar, not a nice-to-have. Your interview will dig into specific design choices and why you made them. * Product Design Track Record: 4-7 years of professional product design experience, with shipped work in B2B SaaS. We're flexible on years; demonstrated craft and clear ownership matter more than time served. * Data-Heavy B2B Interfaces: Direct experience designing for complex workflows, dense data, and technical audiences. Dashboards, investigation tools, developer products, security platforms — the kind of UI where information density and decision support actually matter. * AI as Tool, Not Crutch: You use AI tools (Figma AI, Cursor, v0, Midjourney, ChatGPT/Claude, etc.) as part of your daily workflow and can speak credibly to what they're good for and where they break down. Critically, every design choice you ship should hold up on its own — AI accelerates your work, it doesn't substitute for foundational craft. * Product-Strategic Thinking: Track record of driving product direction, not just executing on briefs. You've influenced what to build with research, framed problems for leadership, and made business-impact calls — ideally in environments where you operated without a dedicated PM. * Deep Engineering Collaboration: Demonstrable history of shipping work in tight partnership with engineers — including backend. Pairing on implementation, working in design tokens, understanding the systems your designs land in, building consensus rather than shipping around resistance. * Design Systems Experience: Background building or meaningfully contributing to a design system in a production product. You think in components, tokens, and patterns, not one-off screens. * Customer-Led Approach: Comfortable running discovery directly with users, synthesising what you hear, and using that to make calls about what to build. You don't wait for research to be handed to you. * Nice to haves: * Experience designing for cybersecurity, developer tools, or other technical product domains * Background designing agentic or AI-native product experiences (not just AI features bolted onto existing products) * Early-stage startup experience where you've operated without a manager or established design function WHY JOIN US: * Define a New Design Space: AI agents in security is a genuinely new problem. The interaction patterns, trust models, and workflows don't exist yet — you'll create them. The work you do here will influence how this entire category gets designed. * Fast-Track to Design Leadership: This is a founding-trajectory role and we're hiring for someone who wants a long-term home, not a stepping stone. As the team scales, the natural path is IC → Lead → Head of Design. If you have leadership ambitions, you'll have the runway to grow into them. If you'd rather stay deeply hands-on, the IC scope grows with the product. * Ambitious Challenge: We're using generative AI (LLMs and agents) to solve one of the most pressing problems in cybersecurity — the gap between vulnerability findings and meaningful action. You'll be designing at the cutting edge of this field. * Expert Team: Work alongside hands-on leaders with experience in Big Tech and Scale-ups. Our team has been part of the leadership teams behind multiple acquisitions and an IPO. * Impactful Work: Cybersecurity is a force for good. The experiences you design will directly affect how security teams protect organisations worldwide. * Build an AI-Native Company: We're building a new company in the AI era with the opportunity to design everything from the ground up — including how the design function itself works. You'll help pioneer AI-assisted design practices and set new standards.