Product Designer (Confirmed/Senior) - Remote Europe

Pennylane; Lisboa; Híbrido; EUR 40 000 - 60 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Great healthcare cover ("Alan Blue")

Lunch credits (Swile card)

Access to fitness spaces and wellness activities

Latest Apple equipment

Resumo da oferta

Pennylane is looking for a Product Designer based in Lisbon, Portugal, to improve user experience for accountants and businesses. This role requires strong B2B product design experience and fluency in both French and English.

The successful candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams, lead user research, and contribute to product quality through design documentation. Pennylane offers benefits like great healthcare, lunch credits, and flexible work arrangements.

Qualificações

• Ability to empathize with users through research.
• Experience aligning on project goals with stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills to share knowledge.

Responsabilidades

• Lead discovery and user research sessions.
• Ensure consistent quality of product prototypes.
• Mentor junior Product Designers.

Conhecimentos

User research and data analysis

Collaboration with developers and product managers

Communication skills

Visual design skills

Documentation of design decisions

Mentoring junior team members

Fluency in French and English

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Are you looking to have an impact on the daily life of millions of entrepreneurs in France and Europe?

Do you thrive in a trustful, fast-paced environment?

Do you feel like our Design principles are aligned with your vision?

Then Pennylane might be the right place for you — and you, might be the perfect fit for this role.

Our vision

We aim to become the most beloved financial Operating System of French SMEs (and soon, European ones). We help entrepreneurs rid themselves of time-consuming tasks related to accounting and finance while providing them with access to key financial information to assist in making the best decisions for their business. We also support accounting firms by enabling them to spend less time on redundant and repetitive tasks and more time on advising and supporting their clients. Currently, over 200,000 SMEs and more than 3,500 accounting firms use Pennylane in France.

Design at Pennylane

Design sits at the center of this mission and its purpose is to deliver a seamless, accessible and enjoyable experience for our users. Our team of more than 35 product designers works across different tracks that are divided into cross‑functional squads. Autonomy, trust, and transparency are the key values of our culture. Designers are expected to actively contribute from defining the problem space to research and testing.

We are seeking a Product Designer with strong B2B product design experience to help elevate and maintain an excellent user experience for our accountants and businesses. If you like solving real user problems in a highly collaborative environment and possess a genuine curiosity for understanding user behaviour, you’ll find yourself surrounded by like‑minded individuals at Pennylane.

Qualifications

• The ability to understand problems and empathise with users through user research and data analysis, and to turn the result into actionable insights.
• Experience working closely with dedicated developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand technical constraints, align on project goals, and iterate on design solutions.
• Great communication skills and the ability to share knowledge with others, both within the team and beyond.
• Excellent visual design skills with experience working on complex systems, including multiple modules, advanced features, and intricate data structures.
• The ability to document your design decisions and work with engineers and product managers to drive projects forward, challenge limitations, adjust schedules, find alternatives, and advocate for solutions in a relevant way.
• Experience generating new opportunities and ideas to improve processes, products, and culture.
• Hands‑on experience coaching and mentoring more junior team members.
• Fluent in both French and English. Ability to run user interviews in French.

What You Can Expect From Your Life At Pennylane

Within one month

• You’ll learn everything about the company, teams, and vision during the first onboarding week.
• You’ll familiarise yourself with the product and the accounting industry (access to documentation and training organised by peers).
• You’ll gain deep knowledge of the Product and Design organisation, methods, and culture.
• You’ll meet the people you will work with: the Design team, the PM and engineers of your squad, and the users.

Within 3 months

• You will lead discovery and user research sessions, diving into data, user feedback, and business goals to tailor effective user interviews and learn from users.
• You will ensure continuous delivery of your scope of the product, hand‑to‑hand with your PM, achieving the right level of quality for the right purpose (low‑to‑high fidelity prototypes) and consistency with the design system.
• You will contribute to the team effort, nourishing the team with your experience, reviewing peers, and tackling transversal topics.

Within 6 months

• You will mentor junior Product Designers.
• You will participate in recruitment of new team members.
• You will stay alert for the best UX/UI practices, benchmark the global tech ecosystem, and aim to create the best experience for Pennylane products.

And beyond

• Multiple opportunities to recruit, mentor and manage new designers.
• Increased responsibilities in project leadership.
• Responsibility to think of and implement new processes, tools, and best practices to make the team work even smoother.

Benefits

• Great healthcare cover (\"Alan Blue\") for you and your family.
• Lunch credits (Swile card) to buy your favourite food every day.
• Work from our well‑situated office in Paris, or from any WeWork in Europe.
• If you have a fully remote contract, a budget for a comfortable workspace and a monthly allowance for coworking.
• Between 8 to 13 additional days off beyond the standard 25 days.
• Access to a large number of fitness spaces and wellness activities through Gymlib.
• Access to Busuu to improve English or learn a new language.
• Latest Apple equipment.
• Participation in a social community with sports, after‑work drinks, and annual company events.

Recruitment Process

• A first look at your portfolio.
• Screening with technical recruiters: 30 minutes.
• Interview with two people from the design team: 45 minutes to 1 hour.
• Assessment at home and review with two other team members: 1 hour.
• Last round with the Head of Design and CPO: 1 hour.

Encouraging diversity in all its forms, Pennylane strives to offer an inclusive, caring and fulfilling work environment in our offices and remotely. We provide equal opportunities and consideration regardless of background, origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation or handicap.