Senior Product Designer

9fin; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the finance technology sector is seeking a Senior Product Designer to join their Onboarding & Activation team. This role focuses on creating intuitive tools that enhance user experiences for finance professionals. Candidates should be eager to learn about the Debt Capital Markets and possess strong design and communication skills. The position offers significant autonomy and opportunities for growth within a dynamic and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Equity options

Private Medical Insurance

25 holiday days per year

Hybrid working model

Professional learning and development budget

Qualifications

• Experience designing and maintaining a reusable design system.
• Ability to translate product metrics into creative design solutions.

Responsibilities

• Designing engaging user experiences for finance professionals.
• Collaborating with PMs and engineers to improve user activation.
• Running user testing sessions to validate feature ideas.

Skills

Communication

Design Thinking

User Research

Data Analysis

Tools

Figma

Job description

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About 9fin

The world's largest asset class, debt, operates with the worst data.

Technology has revolutionized equity markets with electronic trading, quant algos and instantaneous news. However, in debt capital markets, the picture is completely different. It still behaves like it's in the 1980s; trillions of dollars of trades are placed over the phone, news is slow, and corporate credit information is imperfect and scattered.

Our mission is to change this.

9fin's proprietary technology delivers fast and comprehensive financial, credit, legal & ESG analysis. Our clients are able to make faster, more informed decisions, win more business and most importantly, save time.

Our fast growing list of clients include 9 of the top 10 Investment Banks, leading Asset Managers, Hedge Funds and Law Firms.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior Product Designer to join our new UK-based Onboarding & Activation team. This role is perfect for someone who loves diving deep into complex problems and designing powerful tools that help finance professionals work more effectively.

Every day is different, but here are a few things you might have worked on recently if you were already part of the cross functional team:

• Designing an engaging and effective welcome experience for a newly launched product feature.
• Analysing metrics to pinpoint areas where new user activation can be improved, and then designing solutions to address these pain points.
• Collaborating with the team PM to interrogate the user experience between pricing packages to identify and resolve any inconsistencies or negative experiences.
• Running user testing sessions to validate that new feature ideas will meet the needs of users.
• Work with engineers to design efficient solutions that are practical to implement and still deliver value.
• Improving existing tools based on user feedback and usage data.
• Contributing to our design system, with a focus on reusable components.

You'll be joining a cross-functional team with a PM and multiple engineers, where you'll have significant autonomy to shape both the vision and execution of new features. While visual polish is important, your focus will be on creating intuitive, efficient user experiences that solve real problems.

To be effective, you don't need any knowledge of the Debt Capital Markets industry, but you should be eager to learn and excited to dive deep into this product area.

About you

If these traits describe you, we encourage you to apply and be part of the team:

• You focus on what's important. You know how to distil a group of ideas into an MVP, by identifying what is actually important, then tactically adding polish. You are able to park nice-to-haves, manage stakeholders, and keep the focus on what really matters.
• You are comfortable with complexity. We're building a dedicated tool to help finance professionals, which isn't an easy task. You don't need to come with any knowledge of the finance industry, but you should be eager to learn and excited to dive deep.
• You care about the details. You ship robust, functional, and pragmatic UI designs. You can take a design from idea to production UI. You naturally think about the UX of every state, not just the happy cases. You keep iterating until it's right.
• You understand data. You're comfortable diving into product metrics and user research insights to identify opportunities for improvement and translate those findings into creative design solutions.
• You are a strong communicator. You can work with stakeholders to shape a problem, then explore design solutions. You can clearly communicate your reasoning and influence others.
• You know your tools. We use Figma for Product design and prototyping, and some other tools for UX testing. You have experience designing and maintaining a reusable design system.
• You can show your design thinking. You use sketches, wireframes, and prototypes to show how your designs would work in practice. You confidently choose the appropriate fidelity to convey your ideas.
• You test and iterate. You validate your designs and ideas. You proactively seek user interviews, user testing, feedback and data to keep the needs of the user at the forefront.

Benefits

We're a scaling start up and we enjoy sharing our success, when the company succeeds, we always reinvest that in our people. We also offer huge amounts of responsibility, an abundance of opportunity for growth and a platform to truly excel.

Financial & Insurance

• Competitive salary benchmarked at 75-90th% of market
• Equity options
• Pension (your minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Paid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illness
• Group Life Assurance
• Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes

Time off

• 25 holiday days per year
• Local public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days)
• Hybrid working model, to allow you the flexibility to decide how, where and when you do your best work
• Work abroad for up to 3 months a year
• 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
• Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available (22 weeks fully paid for all birthing parents, 12 weeks fully paid for all non-birthing parents)

Training & Culture

• Professional learning and development budget of £1250
• Quarterly team socials
• Summer and Winter company social events

9fin is an equal opportunities employer

At 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognize that building diverse teams enables a more creative and productive environment. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we're looking for - either for this role, or perhaps another.