Lead Product Designer

Core-Asset Consulting Ltd; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a highly experienced Lead Product Designer to spearhead design across their international business. This hands-on, end-to-end role involves managing a design team and advocating for user-centered design. Ideal candidates should possess extensive product design experience, strong communication skills, and expertise in tools like Figma. This position offers remote options with an office presence in Edinburgh and London.

Qualifications

• Experience designing FinTech or white-label SaaS products is desirable.
• Strong understanding of how AI can enhance design processes.

Responsibilities

• Evolve the organisation's design strategy aligning with business goals.
• Act as a custodian of design and user experience across the business.
• Transform ambiguous ideas into clear user experiences.
• Manage and mentor a design team across Europe and Australia.

Skills

Product design experience

End-to-end product design

Communication skills

Collaboration with teams

Expertise in Figma

Experience managing teams

Job description

Job Description

Our client, a leading FinTech firm, is seeking a highly experienced Lead Product Designer to spearhead design across their international business. This is a hands‑on, end‑to‑end role with responsibility for both client‑facing delivery and internal platform development. This is a remote position with access to office space in Edinburgh and London on an initial 12‑month FTC.

Skills / Experience

Essential

• Product design experience.
• Experience in end-to-end product design across UX and UI.
• Strong ability to simplify complex information into intuitive interfaces.
• Demonstrated experience of leading design processes from discovery through to launch.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Experienced in collaborating with Engineering, Product, Solution Architecture, business teams and other designers.
• Comfortable working within a complex technical environment.
• Expertise in Figma and willingness to adopt new tools when required.
• Experience managing small teams and overseeing capacity planning.
• Ability to influence and advocate for design at executive level.
• High attention to detail, curiosity about human behaviour and a drive to learn in a fast‑paced environment.

Desirable

• Experience designing FinTech or white‑label SaaS products.
• Exposure to low‑code platforms.
• Strong understanding of how AI can enhance design processes.
• Experience conducting user research.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams.

Core Responsibilities

• Evolve the organisation's design strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and delivery of high-quality solutions.
• Shape future design direction in line with changing priorities and global growth objectives.
• Act as a custodian of design and user experience across the business, maintaining consistency and excellence across client delivery and platform development.
• Own and develop the global design system in collaboration with engineering, ensuring scalability and suitability for a white-label environment.
• Lead end-to-end design work across sales assets, client solutions and platform enhancements.
• Transform ambiguous ideas and complex requirements into clear and intuitive user experiences.
• Manage and mentor a small design team across Europe and Australia.
• Oversee capacity planning, workload allocation and team development.
• Partner with global stakeholders including product managers, engineers, solution architects, SMEs and senior executives to influence product direction and champion user‑centred design.
• Support sales efforts by creating design concepts and assets in response to client needs and market demand.
• Stay up to date on design trends, emerging tools and innovative technologies including AI.
• Advocate for enhancements to improve client solutions, platform capability and internal design processes.

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.

Job reference: 16300

To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.