About the Role
Embedded in one of our Product squads, you will lead Design from discovery through to delivery, crafting intuitive, human-centred experiences that make complex financial decisions feel simple and delightful. This is a chance to join a small, high-impact team where your ideas will directly influence how thousands of people feel about their money.
Responsibilities
- Owning the end-to-end experience from discovery through to hi-fi design and iterating based on user feedback, with opportunities to work on both mobile app and web.
- Translating user research, data insights and business goals into elegant, usable design solutions.
- Prototyping, user testing, and refining concepts quickly to validate ideas early.
- Collaborating cross-functionally with PMs and engineers to shape our digital product.
- Using generative AI intentionally and intelligently to augment and accelerate problem analysis, ideation and prototyping.
- Actively contributing to Ink design system - evolving components, patterns, and documentation to drive quality and consistency.
- Raising the design bar through attention to UI craft and usability.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience designing digital products end-to-end, embedded in or working closely with cross-functional teams of product managers and engineers.
- Strong portfolio showcasing UX thinking, interaction design, and polished visual execution.
- Proven experience working with and contributing to evolving design systems.
- A team player with excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work at pace while maintaining quality, making sensible decisions about where to focus time and effort.
- Experience of testing and validating prototype designs with users.
- Embraces AI as part of the design process, using it to prototype, iterate and work more effectively while applying sound design judgement.
- Resourceful and comfortable with ambiguity, bringing structure and clarity to undefined problems.
- Experience designing for native mobile apps (iOS or Android).
- Fintech or financial services experience is a plus.
- Exposure to behavioural design principles and methods.
- A genuine desire to help people.
- Collaborative and a great team player.
- A problem solver at heart with an analytical mindset.
- Goal-driven and not afraid to get stuck in.
Skills
- Advanced level ability in Figma
- Experience with user testing platforms such as usertesting.com, Lyssna or Userlytics
- Familiarity with AI-augmented design process
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Salary/Compensations
- £45,000 - £52,000 DOE + bonus
Benefits
- 18 days a year working from anywhere (for non regulated roles)
- Bonus for non-commission based roles
- Company pension
- Private medical insurance
- Enhanced parental leave
- Birthday day off
- A supportive team who care about what they do
- The chance to help people improve their lives
About the Company
- At Octopus Money, we’re on a mission to make financial planning and investing accessible to all.
- We bring friendly, human coaching together with empowering technology to create personalised plans that help you understand the actions you could take. Then, we make it easy to invest in a portfolio managed by experts.
- We’re part of the Octopus Group: a privately-owned business that’s been doing things differently for 25 years. Octopus sets out to build businesses that will outlive us and create a better world for future generations, including brands such as Octopus Energy, Octopus Investments and Octopus Legacy.
Equal Opportunity
- We believe in equal financial education for everybody, no matter their background. We pride ourselves on building an inclusive working environment where diversity is celebrated.
- We do not and never will discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
