The client

An award-winning, FCA regulated digital platform that connects retail investors with publicly listed companies raising capital – the first of it’s kind to open up this side of investing to the everyday investor.

They completed a Series C funding round earlier this year of $190m from leading global investors including Softbank and have been expanding internationally through their exclusive commercial agreements with the London Stock Exchange Group and Euronext, the leading pan-European stock exchange in the Eurozone.

It’s an exciting time to join as the expansion and latest funding is leading to a serious growth period and a big focus (and investment) on improving the brand and product. Getting involved now gives you a huge opportunity to shape the future of the business as they scale.

The role

As part of this growth, the product design team is expanding with the next hire key hires being a number of Mid and Senior Product Designers. You’ll be involved in every step of the product design process from concept through to delivery, ongoing testing and iteration.

This will be the fourth Product Designer in the team, reporting to the Product Design Lead. The wider design function is currently 10 across Research, Product and Creative with ambitions to reach 30 people in the next 12 months.

The business acknowledge domain expertise and actively empower their team to give them ownership over their work. As such you’ll be able to work autonomously when necessary but have the benefits of a highly collaborative working environment where everyone is on a continuous learning curve.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with the wider team to create solutions for both customer and business needs.
• Supporting with the creation of new features and tools for both B2B and B2C products.
• Creating clickable prototypes for user testing and concept validation.
• Contributing to the development of a world class design system from the ground up.
• Creating high fidelity designs for implementation.
• Liaising with developers and QA testers to ensure designs are built and delivered to design specifications
• Providing development teams with support and guidance to help follow design standards and UX best practices

The candidate

Key requirements:

• Previous experience in an end to end Product Design role (Research experience negotiable)
• Experience designing for both web platforms and native app (android & iOS)
• Solid understanding of UX best practice and human behaviour
• Strong visual design skills with a good eye for typography, grids and space.
• Portfolio featuring detailed examples of design work with case studies outlining your approach,
• The ability to take ownership of projects and work in a self-directed yet collaborative manner.
• The ability to articulate your design thinking and decision making.
• Experience building design systems and UI toolkits

Nice to have:

• Interest in investment / personal finance will be a benefit to you more than the business.
• Experience running user testing sessions a bonus.

What you’ll get:

• Salary £60,000 – £75,000 DOE
• Equity options
• Discretionary Bonus (Usually lands around 10%)
• Flexible hours and remote working (Idealy 2 days in London but they will be flexible on this)
• 25 days annual leave plus your birthday off plus BH
• Macbook pro and other tools to get you started
• Private BUPA Healthcare and Babylon Digital GP
• And much more!