Lead Product Designer – Money.co.uk

Job Description

Job title: Lead Product Designer – Money.co.uk

Company: Uswitch

Job description: Job Description:

Location: London, hybrid (2 days per week in-office)

At RVU we combine the close-knit and agile environment of a startup, with the know-how, technology and backing of a well-established company.

Our mission is to empower people to make confident decisions. With our unique set of brands, including Uswitch, Confused.com, Tempcover and Money.co.uk, we have the power to reach millions of consumers and the technology to deliver a world class online experience for them.

About Money.co.uk:

Money.co.uk exists to help consumers make more informed financial decisions. Our free, online comparison service allows consumers to compare financial products, from credit cards to savings accounts, loans to travel money. We want our users to feel reassured that we’re on their side when it comes to their finances.

About the role:

As a Lead Product Designer your role is to meet the diverse needs of our users by making sure they have the best experience across our products. You will work closely with engineers, product experts and the wider multidisciplinary team to craft end-to-end journeys that help customers achieve their goals – from finding the right savings product, to setting up their new business.

Working in Financial Services you have an opportunity to work across 3 large brands, in a rapidly moving business area, owning design and feeding into business/product strategy.

You’ll be working through design problems from start to finish, translating research, analytics and business insights into ideas that become new products and features, as well as designing detailed user journeys and the interactions needed to make them viable. What you will be doing:

• Working with the head of product to feed into and implement product strategy on key projects. Utilising your strong understanding of what drives a business forward and working with business leaders on how to translate this into design strategy
• Ideating through sketching, creating prototypes and creating high quality mockups, and knowing how to best test and validate your designs through user research and product testing
• Line management of one direct report, and coaching internal product designers to unlock potential, grow their expertise and lead by example by modelling being a “Learn it all”
• Using your inquisitive mind to solve problems and challenges in order to develop simple and usable products. Working at a dynamic pace across multiple projects whilst ensuring high quality of your work
• Working closely within a multidisciplinary team of engineers, product managers and analysts, whilst enabling and empowering the wider team through knowledge sharing, process ideation and strong documentation
• Collaborating with the wider design community to leverage brand expertise, elevating our quality of excellence and continuously improving our design processes and principles, fostering a strong culture of empowered ownership over the customer experience

A flavour of what the team has done this year:

• Rethinking and redesigning our SEO pages and journeys from the ground up with a focus on user-centricity – bringing usability and accessibility to the forefront
• Further building out our multi-brand design system, as we expand our financial products to Confused.com (on top of Uswitch.com and Money.co.uk)
• Using product-centric design processes to reevaluate our PPC journeys and products, creating tangible benefits for customers and the business alike

What we’re looking for:

• Strong understanding of how to design appropriate tests to guide design and product strategy, based in analytics and insights
• Strong in Figma, including design system expansion and management, utilising features such as auto-layout and variables to facilitate rapid prototyping and multi-brand design thinking
• Strong all-round product design, user-centred design and accessibility technical skills with an advanced understanding of designing consumer journeys and prototypes
• Excellent at communicating the design thinking and breadth of considerations behind your work and knowing how to engage stakeholders at all levels, in particular by designing and running workshops to facilitate knowledge extraction and collaborative ideation
• A collaborative working style, strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work well in small group settings as well as independently

Our commitment to you:

At RVU, we are dedicated to developing valuable, inclusive, and user-friendly products and services that deliver positive outcomes for all of our customers. To achieve this it’s essential that our teams reflect the diverse range of people in our community. We believe in being the change we wish to see in the world, by embracing our differences and holding ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and wider community members.

Benefits:

We want to give you a great work environment; contribute back to both your personal and professional development; and give you great benefits to make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Some of these benefits include:

• A competitive salary and bonus package
• Employer matching pension up to 7.5%
• Hybrid working approach of in-office (2 days per week) and working from home, and a “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
• Up to 30 days per year “working from anywhere”
• A healthy learning and training budget
• Electric vehicles scheme
• In office gym
• Free breakfast in the office daily
• Health insurance
• Free access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
• Regular events – from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected

As a tech company who strives to get better every day, we use Metaview during the interview processes to record and transcribe interviews so we can continuously improve the quality of our interviews and your experience. This has no bearing on the assessment of you as a candidate and you can opt out at any time.

Expected salary:

Location: London

Job date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 01:15:48 GMT

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