Lead Product Designer

JR United Kingdom; North East; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in the North East of England is seeking a Senior Product Designer to improve customer experience and influence product strategy. You will mentor team members and ensure high design standards. The ideal candidate has experience in Product Design within SaaS, a strong portfolio, and proficiency in Figma. This role offers excellent benefits including flexible working options and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Private healthcare for you and your family

Flexible working options

60 days' work anywhere

25 days off plus public holidays

Career development opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in Product Design within a fast-paced SaaS environment, ideally in fintech.
• Strong portfolio showcasing elegant, usable design solutions across multiple platforms.
• Excellent interaction, information, and system design skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive improvements to customer experience in high-impact product areas.
• Influence product direction by identifying and framing relevant problems.
• Raise the bar for design by mentoring teammates and contributing to strategy.

Skills

Product Design

Interaction Design

Information Design

System Design

User Research

Collaboration

Figma

Agile Methodology

Inclusive Design

Data-Driven Design

Tools

Figma

Job description

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Senior Product Designer, newcastle-upon-tyne, tyne and wear

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Client:

Soldo

Location:

newcastle-upon-tyne, tyne and wear, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

22.08.2025

Expiry Date:

06.10.2025

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Job Description:

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