Lead Product Designer - Multi squad role

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About Cleo

Most people come to Cleo to do work that matters. Every day, we empower people to build a life beyond their next paycheck, building a beloved AI that enables you to forge your own path toward financial well-being.

Backed by some of the most well-known investors in tech, we’ve reached millions of people to support them throughout their financial lives, from their first paycheck to their first home and beyond. We're hitting headlines too. This year, Forbes named us as one of their Next Billion Dollar Startups, and we were crowned the 'Hottest Tech Scaleup' at the Europas.

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We're looking for a Lead Product Designer to join our growing team.

On the frontier of design

We're moving through uncharted territory with brand new design challenges around chat, UI, brand, ToV and applied machine learning that you can't just look up the answer to. We're a small but growing design team with an excellent bunch of engineers who are building faster than we can design. And of course, we are solving money problems that make a very real and tangible difference to our users.

NB: We are unable to sponsor visas for this role, unfortunately. You should be based in the UK (or open to relocation), ideally close to London so you can visit the office on a regular basis. We offer hybrid working - for staff in London we encourage you to come to the office one to two times per week but this is flexible. 

What you’ll be doing

This role will be working across squads to enhance team capacity and performance. You are an enabler who loves variety in their role and is comfortable adapting and shifting priorities. 

• Hands-on design work across all areas of Cleo's product and internal teams including design operations
• Solving both user and business problems balancing the trade-offs and relating these back to the wider squad, pillar and company mission
• Creating clarity and alignment within a squad on proposed solutions through journeys, wireframes and prototypes
• Informing your designs with both qualitative and data-driven insights on user needs and pain points
• Executing prototypes in polished UI in close collaboration with developers
• Creating a great product, UI and chat experience with Content Designers 
• Planning and prioritising sprint work with Product Managers as equal partners 
• Designing and owning the financial relationship that a user has with Cleo for example, engaging with budgeting and insights that help them manage their money to product-specific flows 
• Looking across all Cleo products for opportunities to deepen the financial relationship with our users

About you

• At Lead level, you should ideally have 5+ years of experience working in start-up/scale-ups
• You have a portfolio demonstrating previous experience of delivering and shipping high quality consumer app design 
• You have experience and familiarity with design systems, design DNA and brand experience
• You have experience working in cross-functional product squads partnering closely with engineering, data, content and PMs
• You’ll be excited by doing a variety of work and comfortable with creating clarity from ambiguity by switching directions and priorities to get to the best outcome 
• You’re impact-driven and excited that an idea you have on a Monday could be live and seeing results by the Friday
• You love experimentation, analysis and working with data to drive and inform design decisions
• You'll be driven by finding new & improved ways to help our users meet their goals. Being pragmatic and methodical, you also understand how to break down your work into the most important parts to test and validate

What do you get for all your hard work?

• A competitive compensation package (base + equity) with reviews every 8 months. You can view our public progression framework and salary bandings here: https://cleo-ai.progressionapp.com/ - This position is a PD4 level and we can pay £82,536 - £106,905 depending on experience.
• Work at one of the fastest-growing tech startups, backed by top VC firms like Sofina, Balderton & EQT Ventures.
• A clear progression plan. We want you to keep growing. That means trying new things, leading others, challenging the status quo and owning your impact. Always with our complete support.
• Flexibility: We treat you as humans first, employees second. Because we can’t fight for the world’s financial health, if we’re not healthy ourselves. This means all the usual perks but it also means flexibility. We take pride in being a flexible workplace that trusts our Cleople to deliver their best work, giving you the autonomy to structure your day around morning drop-offs to school or daily dog walks.
• Hybrid-first: Join our hybrid-first team, where we blend the best of both remote and in-office work. We expect our team members to be in our London office 1-2 times a week. On Thursdays, we buy you lunch but you can come to the office on whichever days work best for you!
• Other benefits;
  • 25 days annual leave a year + public holidays (+ an additional day for every year you spend at Cleo)
  • Check out our new benefits package here: https://web.meetcleo.com/blog/big-benefits-energy-the-latest-cleo-employee-benefits
  • 6% employer-matched pension in the UK
  • Company-wide performance reviews every 8 months e.g every 2 terms, in line with our termly cycles (Jan-April, May-Aug, Sept-Dec):
    • Generous pay increases for high-performers and high-growth team members
    • Equity top-ups for team members getting promoted
  • Private Medical Insurance via Vitality, dental cover, and life assurance
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • 1 month paid sabbatical after 4 years at Cleo
  • Regular socials and activities, online and in-person
  • We'll pay for your OpenAI subscription
  • Online mental health support via Spill
  • And many more!