Manager, Product Design
LawPay
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Design Leadership: Lead the design of a core product workstream across our app and web platforms, ensuring a high-quality, user-centered experience from ideation to implementation. You'll be the expert in your domain, guiding the team and overseeing the entire design workflow.
- Team Management & Coaching: Directly manage and mentor a team of talented product designers. You'll provide regular feedback, conduct reviews, and foster their professional growth, helping them reach their full potential.
- Strategic Collaboration: Partner closely with your workstream's Product Lead to shape project briefs and align design efforts with broader company objectives. You will also drive alignment on design priorities and delivery timelines with senior stakeholders.
- Functional Excellence: Champion the use of lean UX principles and a data-driven approach to design. You'll be responsible for measuring and improving the impact of your team's work and driving functional improvements within the design department.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate effectively with product managers, engineers, and other leads across the product design function (UX, UI, and Research) to ensure seamless delivery and a cohesive user experience.
Requirements
- Experienced Leader: A leader with a minimum of 10 years of experience in product design, with a significant portion of that time spent in a leadership role.
- Fintech & Startup Experience: Demonstrable experience within a consumer-facing fintech company, preferably at a scale-up or startup stage. You should have a strong understanding of the UK fintech landscape and emerging trends in consumer finance.
- Expert Manager & Coach: Proven ability to manage, coach, and inspire a team of product designers. You know how to delegate effectively, provide constructive feedback, and support your team's growth.
- Strategic & Pragmatic: You possess a strong product sense and can make sensible tradeoffs to balance user needs with business goals. You are flexible in your approach and can switch between leading and hands-on design work as needed.
- Exceptional Communicator: You excel at stakeholder management and can articulate design decisions and their business impact to both technical and non-technical audiences. You have the ability to speak with business fluency.
