Purpose
We are looking for an experienced lead full-stack product designer to help take My Money Matters to its next stage of growth. You will work alongside a nascent team to research, design, validate and ultimately ship the best solutions to underlying customer problems.
Principal accountabilities and responsibilities to include
- Ownership: Confident, proven ability to lead UX/UI design and user research for product features from start to finish.
- Product design: Design and prototype interfaces that make our product intuitive and elegant.
- Research: Discovering underlying customer problems through user research and translating them into validated features for implementation. Generate and validate hypotheses through rigorous research. Plan, design and conduct user research activities. Articulate why a chosen research methodology is the right one to achieve a particular objective.
- Design Systems: Contribute to the development and maintenance of design systems and style guides across responsive web and mobile. This may involve collaboration with our graphic design team.
- Development Ready Assets: Create annotated pixel-perfect assets ready for the development team to implement. This may involve aligning on user stories with the product team.
- Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to ensure UX consistency and alignment with our goals. Running discovery and design workshops with stakeholders and customers. Support and guide more junior designers as needed – potentially delegating some workstreams.
- Branding: Ensure that all visual designs align with the company’s branding and visual identity
- Analysis: Examine qualitative and quantitative data to make user-centered design decisions that meet business objectives.
- Trends: Stay updated with the latest design trends, techniques, and technologies.
Skills and Requirements
- Demonstrated track record of successfully designing digital products from 0-1.
- Demonstrated experience as a full-stack UX/UI designer.
- Experience working in an agile cross-functional team alongside engineering, design, data and marketing team members.
- Experience of running discovery and research processes end-to-end.
- Deep understanding of UX/UI best practices, design thinking and user research methodologies.
- Comfortable running both generative and evaluative research, leveraging both qual and quant methodologies.
- Comfortable working autonomously and at pace.
- Mobile app experience is crucial.
- B2B, SaaS and/or fintech experience is crucial.
- Experience in a start-up or scale-up is a plus.
- Experience in formal statistical analysis is a plus.
- Domain knowledge of financial wellbeing and personal finance is a plus.
Qualifications and Experience
- At least 7-8 years’ experience in a product or UX/UI design role.
- Evidence: A strong portfolio showcasing your work
- Tools: Proficiency in tools such as Figma, Hotjar, UserTesting, Google Analytics, PowerBI or similar.
- Skills: Strong understanding of user-centred design principles, information architecture, and interaction design.
- Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions and rationale to stakeholders
- Problem-Solving: Creative problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically about design challenges
Company Benefits
- £200 allowance to get your home office set up
- A generous holiday allowance of 25 days plus the day off for your birthday
- Contributory pension scheme (4% Employer, 5% Employee), with the option to top up your pension
- Affordable salary sacrifice benefits such as Cycle to Work, Home and Electronics, Gym Memberships Travel&Leisure, Lease Cars and much more
- Discounts and savings on shopping, travel, entertainment and more
- Access to our outstanding Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to Your Care and our own Wellbeing Hub
- Enhanced Family Friendly Pay
- Peer to Peer Recognition
- Quarterly socials and team events
- Significant training and development opportunities
- Volunteer day
- Annual leave purchase
- Health Cash Plan
- Enhanced Company Sick Pay
- Long Service Awards
- Group Life Insurance
Interview Process
- Screening - 20 minutes
- Stage 1 - Capability Assessment and Portfolio Walkthrough - 45 minutes
- Stage 2 - Real Time Design Exercise - 60 minutes
- Stage 3 - Team Add - 30 - 45 minutes