Lead Product Designer

JR United Kingdom; Guildford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A fintech company in Guildford seeks a Senior Product Designer to enhance user experiences and influence product strategy. In this role, you'll collaborate with PMs and engineers, drive meaningful improvements, and mentor team members. Ideal candidates have SaaS product design experience, a strong portfolio, and proficiency in Figma. This position offers flexible working options including remote and extensive benefits such as private healthcare and generous leave.

Benefits

Private healthcare

Flexible working options

60 days work anywhere

25 days off plus holidays

Annual learning budget

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in Product Design within a fast-paced SaaS environment.
• Strong portfolio showcasing elegant design solutions.
• Excellent interaction and system design skills.
• Experience in cross-functional team collaboration.
• Confidence in running user research.
• Data-driven mindset for design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Drive improvements in customer experience.
• Influence product direction through problem framing.
• Mentor teammates and improve design quality.
• Contribute to Design System and influence standards.
• Be a trusted design voice in teams.

Skills

Product Design in fast-paced SaaS environment

Interaction design

Information design

System design

Collaboration in cross-functional teams

User research

Figma proficiency

Agile methodology familiarity

Data-driven design decisions

Inclusive design

Tools

Figma

Job description

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Soldo is here to change the way businesses spend, for the better. So every employee, department, and team is more productive and successful at work. Soldo connects company cards with a powerful management platform so finance teams can distribute money instantly, while staying in control of who spends, how much, where, and on what. With Soldo, budgeting, payments, reporting and reconciliation are simple and efficient.

We’re both a financial services and a software company and one of Europe’s fastest growing fintech companies. Operating in the UK, Italy and Ireland, we’re over 350 employees (from 26 nationalities) strong.

We’re a place where anyone can thrive. We’re all about doing the right things for the right reasons, high standards, ambition, drive and focus.

What’s in it for you

• Private healthcare for you and your family
• Flexible working options including working from home or our Marylebone office
• 60 days’ work anywhere, even outside the UK if you want
• 25 days off a year, plus public holidays as well as Christmas Eve and New Years' Eve, 2 volunteering days and an extra day off on your birthday
• Genuine career development opportunities, including our mentoring scheme, your own annual £500 learning budget
• Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing portal

The Role

As a Senior Product Designer you will play a pivotal role where you’ll shape critical experiences in our platform, influence product strategy, and help raise the bar for design across the business. You’ll work in close partnership with PMs, Engineers and Researchers—and report directly to our Head of Product Design.

You’ll help shape how our product works, feels, and solves real-world problems for our customers.

• Drive meaningful improvements to the customer experience in one or more high-impact areas of the product—measurably improving user satisfaction, reducing friction, or unlocking business growth.
• Influence product direction by identifying and framing problems worth solving, leading and setting the bar for discovery efforts, contributing to strategy and finding the real customer need.
• Raise the bar for design at Soldo by mentoring teammates, levelling up our skills & critical thinking methods by evangelising a Design Thinking approach across the organisation. We need you to help demonstrate the impact of great product design at Soldo.
• Improve design quality and consistency by contributing to our Design System and influencing design standards across the team.
• Be a trusted design voice in cross-functional teams—bringing clarity to ambiguity, making decisions based on evidence, and championing our customers.

We're looking for someone who has:

• Experience in Product Design within a past-paced SaaS environment (ideally in fintech)
• A strong portfolio that showcases elegant, usable, and outcome-driven design solutions across multiple platforms.
• Excellent interaction design, information design and system design skills, with an eye for detail and a knack for simplifying complexity.
• Deep experience collaborating in cross-functional teams and working closely with engineers.
• Confidence in planning and running your own user research or collaborating with researchers.
• A systems thinker who can balance consistency with creative problem-solving.
• Comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback in a candid, collaborative way.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and evolving problem spaces
• High level of skill using Figma to visualise ideas, brainstorm, and create high-fidelity prototypes
• Experience driving change in a small-medium sized SaaS product company
• Experience of working in an agile environment, and familiarity with Agile methodology
• Data-driven mindset to advise design choices based on customer research, business priority and technical constraints
• Passionate about inclusive design and accessibility, and you'll design with all our customers in mind

It would be nice if you have:

• Experience designing financial or workflow tools for B2B audiences
• Experience of designing for both web and mobile platforms