Staff Product Designer: Architect AI-Driven Finance UX

Cleo; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Sabbatical after 4 years

Learning & development platform

Pension

Job summary

Cleo seeks a Staff Product Designer to join the Core Experience team, driving the vision and direction of Cleo’s AI-driven financial platform. You will shape platform architecture, establish design principles, and mentor others to raise the craft across the organization.

You’ll partner with executives to translate strategic bets into tangible concepts, balancing clarity, beauty, and scale while shaping the Design System to support rapid, expressive product development.

Qualifications

• A company-level design leader operating through influence rather than authority.
• A systems thinker who designs frameworks, not just features.
• Deeply experienced in fintech or other complex, high-trust B2C domains.
• Proven in shaping scaling products into durable platforms.
• Comfortable influencing VP and C-level stakeholders.
• Exceptional in craft, with the judgment to balance beauty, clarity, and scale.
• Forward-looking, with strong perspectives on AI-native interaction models.
• Motivated by reshaping how people understand and emotionally experience money.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term vision for Cleo’s AI-driven financial platform.
• Architect multi-year product frameworks unifying credit, subscriptions, savings with AI layer.
• Shape how AI works across the product to be clear and responsible.
• Design scalable mental models that reduce financial complexity at scale.
• Align navigation, IA, and behavioural flows across the full lifecycle.
• Partner with executive leadership to shape product direction and roadmap priorities.
• Translate ambiguous bets into compelling concepts and prototypes.
• Establish experience principles guiding teams across the company.
• Set the highest standard for visual, interaction, and systems craft.
• Define governance for Cleo’s Design System with Core Experience leaders.

Skills

Systems thinking

Stakeholder influence

Fintech domain experience

Design leadership

Job description

Cleo seeks a Staff Product Designer to join the Core Experience team, driving the vision and direction of Cleo’s AI-driven financial platform. You will shape platform architecture, establish design principles, and mentor others to raise the craft across the organization.

You’ll partner with executives to translate strategic bets into tangible concepts, balancing clarity, beauty, and scale while shaping the Design System to support rapid, expressive product development.