Full-Time
Designer – UX/UI
Happl
11-50 employees
Global benefits and HR automation platform
No salary listed
London, UK
Hybrid
At least 2–3 days per week in the London office.
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- At least 4 years of experience working across user experience/user interface, brand, and digital experiences.
- Strong design craft, range, and attention to detail.
- Experience working in product teams and collaborating closely with engineers.
- Experience using modern prototyping tools and artificial intelligence to accelerate exploration and delivery.
- A portfolio demonstrating shipped work across product, brand, or both.
- Ability to think in systems while maintaining attention to detail.
- Own user experience/user interface design across the product from concept through shipped experience.
- Prototype and ship ideas quickly using modern tools and artificial-intelligence-assisted workflows.
- Work closely with Product to understand customer problems and turn them into elegant, intuitive solutions.
- Shape and evolve the company’s visual identity for HR leaders and senior stakeholders.
- Design and build the website, landing pages, and marketing surfaces.
- Create assets for social media, campaigns, launches, and events.
- Design and ship prototypes to test new ideas, flows, and interactions.
- Maintain and evolve design systems, patterns, and standards across product and brand.
- Introduce new ideas, tools, and approaches to design, build, and shipping workflows.
- Own design work across the company, including social media, website, platform, and app design.
- Experience across both product and brand design.
- Experience using artificial intelligence-assisted design workflows.
Happl is a London-based HR-tech platform that manages employee benefits, insurance, and engagement for global organisations, especially those with remote or hybrid teams. It automates HR workflows such as onboarding, off-boarding, eligibility checks, payroll deductions, tax reporting, and benefit enrolment to reduce admin work. Employees receive personalised benefits (insurance, allowances, wellbeing stipends, gifting) with AI-powered support and dashboards that track sentiment. The platform integrates with 100+ HR/payroll/accounting systems to operate across 160+ countries and 70+ languages, generating revenue from subscriptions plus services like insurance brokering and payroll-linked benefit flows.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$17.2M
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2020
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- May 2026 Series A funded product development and international expansion.
- June 2026 hires of technology, product, and demand generation leaders signal execution momentum.
- Job postings in 2026 show active London and New York team growth.
What critics are saying
- Global benefits platforms face sticky incumbents; Rippling and Workday can bundle faster.
- Happl's hiring spree in April-May 2026 implies burn before recurring revenue scales.
- A failed enterprise expansion in 2026 would exhaust the startup and force downround financing.
What makes Happl unique
- Happl's May 2026 Series A backed Portage, Y Combinator, and Tom Blomfield.
- It manages benefits across 160 countries with AI-native workflows and deep integrations.
- Enterprise customers Moelis, Kainos, and Hootsuite validate multinational benefits complexity.
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↓ -10%Happl appoints director of technology as growth continues. Happl was founded by tech entrepreneur Ben Towers, who was awarded an MBE at 27 and has been named in BusinessCloud's Founder 250 Rob Waller has joined Happl, an AI-native employee benefits platform for global companies, as its new director of technology. Happl was founded by tech entrepreneur Ben Towers, who was just 27 when he was awarded an MBE in the King's New Year Honours List. The company, which has offices in London and New York, is backed by Y Combinator - the Silicon Valley incubator that helped launch Airbnb and Reddit - as well as notable investors including Tom Blomfield, co-founder of Monzo and GoCardless. Towers, who has been included in BusinessCloud's Founder 250, was awarded an MBE for services to the startup business community after founding his first business at the age of 11. He was identified as 'one of the UK's most exciting entrepreneurs' by Richard Branson while still a teenager. Waller, who previously worked at TELUS Health, said: "It's about time I shared that I've joined Happl as director of technology. The more I learned about what they're building, the more I had to be part of it. "Happl's using technology and AI to totally change what employee benefits can do for both employees and employers. They're not bolting AI onto an old system, but rethinking that system entirely. "I'm grateful to Ben Towers for trusting me with such an important role as we grow Happl into the best benefits platform on the market." In May, Happl raised £8.1m in an oversubscribed Series A funding round led by Portage Ventures. The round included participation from F Capital and existing investors Y Combinator, 6 Degrees Capital, Haatch and Ventures Together. The fundraising was marked with a billboard in Times Square, New York.
Happl, a global employee benefits operating system, has raised $11 million in a Series A round led by Portage Ventures. Y Combinator, 6 Degrees Capital, Haatch and Ventures Together also participated. Founded in 2022 by Ben Towers MBE, Happl provides an AI-powered platform that helps HR and finance teams manage employee benefits eligibility, compliance and administration across over 160 countries. The system replaces fragmented country-by-country processes with unified infrastructure designed for multinational employers. The London-based company, which also operates in New York, serves enterprise clients including Moelis, Kainos and Hootsuite. The funding will support product development and international expansion as demand grows for modernised benefits management infrastructure amongst global organisations.
Happl secures £8.1 million Series A investment led by Portage Ventures. * B2B * Esther Andrew * 11 May 2026 * 387 * 5 minutes read Happl raises $11m (£8.1 million) Series A led by Portage Ventures to power global benefits infrastructure for multinational employers Happl, a global employee benefits operating system founded by entrepreneur Ben Towers MBE, has raised $11 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round led by Portage Ventures, a leading global $6.3bn fintech investment platform. The round includes participation from F Capital and existing investors Y Combinator, 6 Degrees Capital, Haatch and Ventures Together, reinforcing strong backing for Happl's mission to transform how global organisations manage employee benefits. The raise is being celebrated with a billboard in Times Square, New York, alongside Happl's US banking partner, Brex. Founded in 2022, Happl is building a global employee benefits operating system for multinational employers. Its AI-powered platform combines a configurable rules engine, deep integrations and workflow automation to help HR and finance teams manage eligibility, compliance, policy administration and benefits operations across more than 160 countries. Built for mid-market and enterprise customers from day one, Happl replaces fragmented, country-by-country processes with a single infrastructure layer designed for global scale. Managing benefits across multiple jurisdictions remains one of the most complex and resource-intensive challenges for global businesses, with regulatory risk, operational inefficiencies and poor employee engagement often the result. Happl addresses this by embedding compliance, automation and personalisation into one unified platform, reducing costs and administrative burden while improving employee experience. Ben Towers MBE, co-founder and CEO of Happl, said: "Happl began with a simple belief: benefits should be easy to understand, easy to manage and easy to implement. What we've built goes far beyond that, a global platform that removes complexity at scale and connects employees with solutions that truly reflect their needs. "As companies become more global, the challenge of managing benefits across multiple countries only intensifies. This funding will allow us to accelerate our product development and international expansion and continue building the infrastructure layer that modern employers need." Hélène Falchier, General Partner at Portage, added: "Happl stands out because it was built for global complexity, not retrofitted into it. The company has developed a differentiated benefits operating system that helps multinational employers automate compliance-heavy workflows, reduce operational friction and deliver a more personalised employee experience at scale. Combined with strong enterprise traction and an ambitious founder, that gave us the conviction to lead the Series A." Today, Happl has teams across the UK and the USA and supports complex global benefits programmes, increasingly serving enterprise customers that require flexibility, compliance and control at scale. The company has built momentum with global organisations, including Moelis, Kainos and Hootsuite, reflecting growing demand for a more modern infrastructure layer for benefits.
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