Senior Product Designer

Senior Product DesignerDepartment: ProductEmployment Type: Permanent - Full TimeLocation: LondonCompensation: £58,000 - £91,000 / yearDescription
Senior Product Designer
LondonAt Freetrade, we believe investing should be accessible to everyone. It’s one of the best ways to grow your savings but, for many, it seems complicated, expensive, and out of reach.
We’re here to change that.
We're a technology company that brings simple investing to everyone. We’ve built a beautiful app to buy and sell shares and ETFs in a fluid, mobile-first experience. We’re building a team with diverse and unique perspectives in order to help us on our mission to demystify investing, making it more accessible.
Our goal is to help our customers achieve better, long-term financial outcomes, chipping away at one of the biggest issues of our generation: wealth inequality.
In 2023, we’re rolling out our app across the EU, transforming our product with new features and functionalities, and introducing new products. In the UK, we now have over 1.4m registered users, a team of over 300, offering a range of products like the Freetrade Pension, a stocks and shares ISA, and our premium account, Freetrade Plus. Our media brand, Freetrade Honey, offers daily insights alongside deep dives into the companies and trends that the new generation of investors care about most.
This has all been possible because of the backing of a passionate group of over 10,000 crowdfunding investors. As we’ve scaled, we’ve also raised money from world-class growth investors including Left Lane Capital, Molten Ventures, and L Catterton to supercharge our growth.We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to help shape the future of our product experience. This person will be part of our cross-functional product verticals, you will work closely with colleagues from Product Management, Engineering, Data and QA. The Product team leads the way in identifying the most important problems people face with investing today, speaking regularly to our customers to gain real empathy and insight. You will then work collaboratively to create innovative, elegant and simple solutions that remove stress and help people take control of their financial lives.As a Senior Product Designer at Freetrade, you will be accountable for every feature you design - from the very first sketch through to implementation, you’ll drive all stages of the design process with support from the rest of the design team. Design is a first-class citizen at Freetrade and is highly respected.You will:
Conceive, design, and ship new products and features that will excite our customers and aim to make their financial lives better
Contribute to and maintain our Design System foundation for iOS, Android, and responsive Web, aligned with our Design Principles
Be autonomous. You’ll take full ownership of your work and are responsible for every last detail, every step of the way
Let customers lead the way. Our customers inform us where we are going. Our teams focus on listening to users and letting their needs guide us to the best solutions.
Work closely with Engineering to ensure a high-quality implementation
Collaborate closely with research, product, compliance, and the business to find elegant but practical solutions to design challenges
Deeply care about our customers and want to blow their minds with an app experience they would never expect from a financial services product
Help to build a strong design culture within the company
Foster a collaborative and customer-centric culture
Proactively look for ways to improve our Product, aiming for the best in class Design
Leverage AI technology to make your daily work more efficient
Your designs are evidence-based, and you are a natural at rationalising your decisions
About you:
5+ years of experience in product design with a portfolio showcasing your commercial expertise in this area, including your contribution to design systems and cross-platform products
You are an expert in Figma. You know how to work with variables and developer mode to facilitate the design handover process to developers
You produce pixel-perfect designs and prototypes to best communicate with engineers and other stakeholders.
You have a deep understanding of the latest UI/UX trends and technology standards for iOS, Android, and Web
You design end-to-end experiences, following a cohesive Design thinking process
You have demonstrated experience with both qualitative and quantitative user research methods. Experience with planning and facilitating user research sessions to better understand our customers and turning insights into actions that drive the product direction
You have experience producing visually appealing and functional designs and prototypes with a customer-centric approach
You are as adept at exploring the problem theoretically as you are with the visual design of the solution
You have a good understanding of performance metrics and experimentation
Your creativity and empathy make you an invaluable team player, capable of inspiring and motivating others
You have a strong sense of empathy - you can adopt the mindset of the customer, even in subjects you’re less familiar with
Desirable, but not essential
Experience producing micro animations
Design degree or related field
Preferably some experience working within financial services
Benefits & interview logistics:Logistics
The application process consists of four stages. You will initially have a phone interview with one of our internal Talent Partner, followed by a call with the hiring manager to go through your portfolio. After the interview with the hiring manager, you will be given a small task to complete. In the final round, there will be a cultural and behavioural interview.Please share your portfolio with your CV. Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.
We offer a competitive salary plus stock options and lots of other benefits.
You’ll have a stake in the company you’re building, with stock options benchmarked to US companies.
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