Lead Product Design

FundApps; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in London is seeking a Lead Product Designer to define and scale the Product Design function. This is a hands-on role that requires 8+ years of experience in product design, with strong communication and mentoring skills. The candidate will collaborate closely with product teams to integrate design best practices effectively. This position offers a salary between £90,000 and £105,000 per annum with flexible hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working

Private health insurance

Matched pension contribution up to 10%

£1,000 learning budget each year

25 days of holiday leave

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in a product design role.
• Track record in growing and scaling a design function.
• Comfortable in fast-paced, agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Define the strategic direction for Product Design.
• Serve as a hands-on leader and mentor.
• Ensure excellent communication across business levels.
• Cultivate influence with senior stakeholders.
• Build strong partnerships across business units.

Skills

Experience in product design role

Excellent communication skills

Knowledge of SaaS and investment management

Agile methodologies

Ability to mentor and coach

Education

8+ years in product design

Job description

Description

As a Lead Product Designer, you will stand at the forefront of industry compliance innovation, developing and launching services for the world’s largest investment managers. As a market leader, you will be instrumental in scaling design as a function at FundApps and ensuring we remain industry leaders across our monitoring, reporting, and surveillance products as we build out a regulatory compliance "one stop shop."

In 2025, FundApps merged with SteelEye, a leader in trade and communications surveillance. This merger presents the significant and exciting challenge of unifying products and platforms across both businesses.

You will be working with the existing Product Designer in aligning the brand and product experiences. This is a hands on role - you will be doing the work and building up a strategy with the view to own the full Product Design function as we scale.

If you are excited by this kind of large-scale integration challenge, you will be defining the design strategy across all product areas, ensuring they remain market‑leading, and shaping how the FundApps and SteelEye platforms integrate to build a seamless user experience.

What You’ll Be Working On

Vision & Ownership : Define the strategic direction for Product Design, ensuring UX consistency and best-in-class quality across the entire product suite.

Player / Coach Mentality : Serve as a hands‑on leader, performing direct IC design work early on to meet business needs, while simultaneously mentoring and coaching. Responsibilities will gradually shift to focus on scaling and team growth, as this is not a management‑only role.

High‑Impact Communication : Ensure excellent communication across all business levels. Clearly articulate the intent and value delivered by design initiatives, landing messages effectively with both executives and individual contributors.

Influence : Cultivate influence with the senior stakeholders to secure investment and align direction. Translate design complexity into clear, executive narratives, making the value of quality and 'invisible' design efforts tangible.

Quality Advocacy : Serve as the design function’s 'backbone' by maintaining quality standards, holding the line on critical investments, and balancing pragmatism with excellence. Proactively protect the team’s focus and time from fragmentation under pressure.

Scaling the Function : Scale the Product Design function, initially performing significant individual contributor (IC) work alongside the existing product designer. Responsibilities will gradually shift toward coaching and leadership as the team expands.

Organizational Alignment : Build strong partnerships across all business pillars (e.g., Engineering, Product Management, Commercial) and articulate design needs in clear, business terms to influence prioritization and investment.

Design Culture & Ownership : Proactively shape a robust, organization‑wide design culture, promoting the principle that all product teams share ownership of design quality.

Team Collaboration : Collaborate closely with product teams to embed design best practices, manage the collective design workload, and proactively shape the team's operating culture.

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• Have 8+ years’ experience in a product design role in a dynamic, SaaS business or an investment management firm with proven track record in growing and scaling a design function
• Knowledge of delivery best practices with Product teams and Product Design
• Excellent communicator with different stakeholders across a business, such as Executive teams, Engineering, Sales and Client Success
• Be very comfortable working in growing, fast‑paced, agile environments
• Player / Coach - this role is will require the successful candidate to contribute as an IC and as a leader to start with - delivering on the business needs
• Think in terms of the big picture, but deliver on the details
• Take a keen interest in industry trends and are ready to evaluate and incorporate new opportunities into how we work and what we offer

Brownie Points

• Have worked on an investment management or investment products SaaS platform previously - so have previous experience of the users and segments (Hedge Funds, Investment Managers) FundApps sell into.

A Few Things To Know Before You Apply

Salary

The base salary for the role is £90,000 - £105,000 per annum dependent on experience and career level.

Work Eligibility

We require candidates to have permission to work in the UK without visa sponsorship.

We work hybrid and ask that new FundAppers spend 3 days per week at our shiny London office during their first 6 months, to make the most of getting to know the business and other FundAppers.

After that, our policy is at least 2 days per week in the office to collaborate, connect, and make the most of our shared space.

Life at FundApps

🕐 Work / life balance with flexible hybrid working

💚 Wellbeing benefits such as private health insurance, life insurance, a flexible stipend and mental health coaching

💰 Matched pension contribution up to 10%

💰 Peer micro‑bonuses through Bonusly

🎓 £1,000 learning budget each year and unlimited professional development leave

💡 Peer‑led ’Brown‑bag lunch’ learning sessions and an annual Learning Festival

🚢 25 days holiday leave + an extra day next year if you use it all + an extra day after 3 & 5 years

🧳 5 Years @ FundApps – additional 4 weeks paid holiday leave during your 5th year as a FundApper

👶 26 weeks leave for all new parents regardless of gender, location or family structure

❤️ Volunteering leave

🎁 Birthday off

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We are proud of the diversity of all FundAppers – it makes us strong. We provide flexibility around religious observances and embrace a variety of cultural celebrations! If you’re looking for a workplace where you can just be yourself, you’re in the right place.

Your Privacy

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FundApps is a company powered by experts, with a client community of 1000s and a culture underpinned by ethics. Oh – and we make the best regulatory software so our clients can “get a good night’s sleep now they have FundApps’❃[real client quote]

Many lawyers, ex‑regulators, info‑sec and other experts work for the B Corp that is FundApps. We are all about future‑proofing our compliance monitoring and reporting software so we can always monitor the £30trn (and growing) of AuM for the industry’s most active and happy global compliance community [we get top notch NPS + CSAT scores year after year].

Good people, good business, good ethics. We are FundApps.