Lead Product Designer

AdvanceWorks; Portugal; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote setup

Formal training

Access to AI design tools

Job summary

AdvanceWorks is seeking a Lead Product Designer (UX) to join an international client in the financial services sector and build its platform design practice from the ground up. You’ll turn complex financial workflows into simple, intuitive and trustworthy experiences for professional users.

This is a true player-coach role: you’ll set the design strategy and stay hands-on, working side by side with Product Owners and Frontend Engineering with a direct impact on the product roadmap.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing complex B2B SaaS products.
• Proven experience leading a design team or function.
• Strong portfolio with UX process and outcomes.
• Advanced Figma skills and design systems experience.
• Ability to link UX decisions to business value.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term UX vision aligned with roadmap and goals.
• Create design philosophy for financial services.
• Lead design from discovery to delivery with prototyping and testing.
• Translate regulatory requirements into clear experiences.
• Build and evolve a scalable design system and library.
• Guide frontend engineers and foster critique and curiosity.
• Speak for design across Product, Engineering and Sales (incl. executives).
• Shape ways of working between design, product and development.

Skills

B2B SaaS design

Design leadership

UX process

Figma

Design systems

Business value mapping

English communication

Tools

Claude Design

Figma Make

Google Stitch

Job description

At AdvanceWorks, we learn together, grow together, and have fun together. And we do all this while creating great software solutions for clients across many industries and geographies.

We are constantly challenging ourselves and each other to use the latest technologies and the best methodologies, making sure we always walk the talk.

What will be your role

We are looking for a Lead Product Designer (UX) to join an international client in the financial services sector and build its platform design practice from the ground up. You'll turn complex financial workflows into simple, intuitive and trustworthy experiences for professional users. This is a true player-coach role: you'll set the design strategy and stay hands-on, working side by side with Product Owners and Frontend Engineering with a direct impact on the product roadmap.

Your responsibilities will include

• Defining and communicating a long-term UX vision aligned with the product roadmap and business goals;
• Creating a design philosophy tailored to the needs of professional users in financial services;
• Leading design from discovery to delivery: prototyping early, iterating often and validating through user research and testing;
• Translating complex business needs and regulatory requirements into clear, simple experiences;
• Building and evolving a scalable design system and component library fit for a regulated industry;
• Guiding a team of frontend engineers and fostering a design culture built on constructive critique, rigour and curiosity;
• Being the voice of design across Product, Engineering and Sales, explaining decisions to technical and non-technical audiences, including C-level;
• Helping shape the ways of working between design, product and development;

What should you bring to the team

• 8+ years of experience designing complex B2B SaaS products;
• Proven experience leading a design team or function, with the ability to work both strategically and hands-on;
• A strong portfolio showcasing your UX process and measurable outcomes;
• Advanced Figma skills and experience building design systems, plus curiosity for AI design tools (Claude Design, Figma Make, Google Stitch);
• A talent for making dense information clear and trustworthy, and for linking UX decisions to business value;
• Excellent written and spoken English;

Nice to have

• Experience in FinTech, banking, wealth management or financial services;
• Knowledge of financial regulation (MiFID II, SFDR);
• Experience designing for expert and professional users;
• Familiarity with Agile and Lean UX methodologies;

What is in it for you

• An amazing informal culture of smart, hardworking, and friendly people who support and care about each other;
• A mentorship program from day one;
• The opportunity to build a design practice from scratch and leave your mark on a business-critical platform;
• Formal training and certifications;
• Access to cutting-edge tools and technologies, including the latest AI design tools;
• A dynamic company where your ideas matter more than your job title;
• Flexibility with responsibility, in a 100% remote setup;
• A Rubber Duck to help you untangle those tricky user flows;