Lead Product Designer

Soldo; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Soldo seeks a Lead Product Designer to enhance their platform’s user experience and drive product strategy in a fast-paced environment. This role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams to improve design quality, innovate solutions, and mentor fellow designers. Artists passionate about inclusive design and usability will thrive at Soldo.

Benefits

Private healthcare for you and your family

Flexible working options

60 days’ work anywhere

25 days off plus public holidays

Annual £500 learning budget

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in Product Design in a fast-paced SaaS environment.
• Strong portfolio showcasing user-centered design solutions.
• Deep experience in cross-functional collaboration and user research.

Responsibilities

• Drive meaningful improvements to customer experience.
• Influence product direction and strategy.
• Raise design quality through mentoring and contributing to design standards.

Skills

Product Design

Interaction Design

Information Design

System Design

User Research

Agile Methodology

Inclusive Design

Accessibility

Tools

Figma

Job description

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Soldo is here to change the way businesses spend, for thebetter. So every employee, department, and team is more productive andsuccessful at work. Soldo connects company cards with a powerful managementplatform so finance teams can distribute money instantly, while staying incontrol 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 andone of Europe’s fastest growing fintech companies. Operating in the UK, Italyand Ireland, we’re over 350 employees (from 26 nationalities) strong.

We’re a place where anyone can thrive. We’re all aboutdoing the right things for the right reasons, high standards, ambition, driveand 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 aLead Product Designeryou will play apivotal role where you’ll shape critical experiences in our platform, influenceproduct strategy, and help raise the bar for design across the business. You’llwork in close partnership with PMs, Engineers and Researchers—and reportdirectly to our Head of Product Design.

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

• Drive meaningful improvementsto 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 directionby 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 Soldoby 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 consistencyby contributing to our Design System and influencing design standards across the team.
  
• Be a trusted design voicein 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 usingFigmato 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