Product Designer (Mid/Senior) - Contractor

*This is a 6 month contract opportunity*

About LendInvest

Since starting out in 2008 we’ve lent more than £4 billion of mortgages and have helped to put thousands of new or improved homes into the UK housing market. In that time we’ve built a truly international capital base.

Today, our funders and investors include pension funds, insurers and global institutions like HSBC, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup and National Australia Bank. In 2019 we became the first UK Fintech to securitise a portfolio of buy-to-let mortgages. We are a multiple award-winning company and have been proudly profitable since 2015. In July 2021 this all came to fruition as we IPO’d on the LSE.

About The Role

This role and would be a great opportunity for an established Senior looking to remain hands-on or a Mid looking to step up and take more responsibility.

When you arrive, your first few months as a Product Designer (Mid/Senior) will look like:
Now

Reporting directly to our Head of Design, you’ll familiarise yourself with our internal and external customers, data-sets, tech stack, and roadmaps. You’ll meet the LendInvest tech team and understand our approach to design, our products, and ways-of-working. We endeavour to get you up-to-speed as quickly as possible so you can hit the ground running, making small iterations and delivering immediate impact on our products.

Next

After getting hands-on with our existing products and identifying some quick wins, you’ll collaborate closely with product, engineering, and the business to develop our roadmaps and plan for the future. You will communicate your vision across products, proactively engaging stakeholders and teams and finding ways to incrementally deliver it. Working with the product design team you will ensure design standards are being met and continue the development of our design system.

Later

You will champion design throughout the business and promote human-centred methodologies, helping the wider team to embed them in their day-to-day work. The work your team does will be centred around safeguarding our customer’s user experience and trust in our brand.

About You

As a Product Designer (Mid/Senior), you’ll take ownership of the end-to-end experience for our lending platforms; working in close collaboration with product managers you’ll take digital products from inception to delivery that meet customer needs and business goals.
You'll help shape not only our products, but also our culture and team.

We’re looking for someone who has extensive end-to-end product design experience. For us this means:

• Experience in research and requirements gathering, analysing data, defining product strategy, user journeys, service maps, logic flows, UI/Interaction design.
• Built and shipped applications/software in cross-functional teams
• Can demonstrate strategic product thinking and vision.
• Excellent communication skills with both stakeholders and developers
• Worked with design systems and accessibility best practices
• Likes using modern tools such as Sketch and Figma
• A portfolio with detailed case studies of UX, UI, and interaction design work

About The Team

Our tech team is ambitious, striving to become the best at what we do by delivering simple and innovative solutions that provide demonstrable value.

The technology team comprises around a third of our total workforce, and comes from a diverse range of backgrounds (from lawyers to animators) and countries (from Russia to South Africa). We work to agile principles, making use of kanban to push changes to production frequently, and encourage transparency through daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and weekly tech demos to the wider business.

Perks

• 25 days’ holiday
• Matched pension contributions up to 4%
• Private healthcare (Vitality)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Life assurance 4x salary
• A LendInvest volunteer day
• Discounts via Perkbox
• Socials including company events, painting classes, cocktail making, pizza making, murder mysteries and weekly yoga (remotely)