About the Role
As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll be working on improving the customer experience and building towards Plum's mission. This is a hands-on individual contributor role where you’ll spend your time designing parts of the Plum product within a cross-functional team.
Responsibilities
- Solve user problems from beginning to end, from carrying out research to implementing polished flows and interactions with engineers.
- Collaborate with other designers to establish Plum’s design processes, tooling setup, and core principles.
- Sketch and prototype ideas with your team to assess their viability before fleshing out finer details and interactions.
- Use research and testing to validate work and build empathy and further understanding of Plum’s users.
- Partner with Product Managers to define how the product works and what it looks like in future iterations.
- Work closely with Engineers to build, iterate, and ship ideas.
Requirements
- A product thinker who cares about the 'why' behind the design and its impact on the user.
- A design process that puts the human first, using data and research where necessary, and validating design through testing.
- A brilliant communicator who can explain and rationalize design decisions, and give and receive constructive feedback.
- Able to work independently, but also knows when to collaborate with other designers and when to ask for help.
- Fluent in designing for mobile devices.
- Possesses a strong portfolio of projects showcasing interaction and visual design skills.
- Understands how digital products are built and has experience shipping them.
- Fluent in iOS and Android design systems, knowing when to reuse existing patterns versus going custom.
- Understands the nuances of UI elements like chips, toasts, and snack bars.
Skills
- Product thinking
- User research
- Prototyping
- Interaction design
- Visual design
- Mobile design (iOS and Android)
- Design systems
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Problem-solving
Location
- London
- Athens
- Cyprus
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Stock options
- Private health insurance
- Annual training budget
- Plum Premium for employee and 2 friends or family
- Referral scheme with competitive rewards
- 45 work-from-anywhere days
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- 2 weeks sabbatical after 4 years
- Enhanced parental leave
- 1 paid volunteering day annually
- Annual team trip
- Fun, inclusive company culture
About the Company
- Plum is a smart saving and investing app on a mission to help grow money for life.
- Since 2016, over 2 million people in 10 European markets have set aside more than £2 billion with Plum's automation and AI.
- Plum has received awards from Deloitte, Finder, and more.
- The company has a passionate team of over 200 employees working across Europe.
Equal Opportunity
- Plum is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Plum does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin or any other basis covered by appropriate law.
- All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
