Senior Product Designer

Are you looking to have an impact on the daily life of millions of entrepreneurs in France and Europe?

Do you thrive in a trustful, fast-paced environment?

Do you feel like our Product Principles are aligned with your Product vision ?

Then Pennylane might be the right place for you — and you, might be the perfect fit for this role 🙂

We aim to become the most beloved financial Operating System of European SMEs.

We help business owners get rid of the time consuming hassle of handling accounting and finance, while giving them access to key information that they can use to make better decisions.

Meanwhile, we’re helping accountants. By using Pennylane, rather than doing manual and repetitive tasks, they can spend more time advising and guiding their clients.

Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France (and soon to be in Europe!)

In 2 years of existence, we’ve managed to :

💻 Make ourselves known as a groundbreaking accounting and financial software for small businesses and their accountants

💰 Raise a total of €84 millions, including from Sequoia 🌲, the famous fund from the Silicon Valley who invested early in companies like Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Stripe, Paypal and much more...

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Grow from 7 cofounders to 300+ happy Pennylaners (180 of them on the Product & Tech side) : we’re now recognized as one of the greatest places to work in France (but also remotely), with a 5/5 rating on Glassdoor and an e-NPS of 94.

🌍 Build an international environment with more than 33 nationalities, with a strong remote-friendly culture, where 35% of the employees are already working from all parts of Europe

🤝 Earn the trust of thousands of customers and accounting firms and obtain outstanding ratings

Design sits at the centre of this mission and its purpose is to deliver a seamless, accessible and enjoyable experience for our users. Our team of 20+ product designers work across different tracks that are divided into cross-functional squads each consisting of Engineering, Product and Design. Autonomy, trust and transparency are the key values upon which our culture is built, this is directly reflected in how our designers operate on a day-to-day basis.

At Pennylane, designers are expected to actively contribute all the way from defining the problem space, to research and testing.

We are seeking a Senior Product Designer with strong B2B product design experience to help elevate and maintain an excellent user experience for our accountants and businesses. If you like solving real user problems in a highly collaborative environment and possess a genuine curiosity for understanding user behaviour, then you’ll find yourself surrounded by likeminded individuals at Pennylane.

- The ability to understand problems and empathize with users through user research and interviews. Someone who thrives on understanding the psychology behind certain behaviours and turn it into insights.

- Great communication skills and the ability to share knowledge with other members in the team in a meaningful way that adds value.

- Excellent visual design skills with emphasis on simplifying complex UI views, visual hierarchy and features.

- Hands-on experience coaching and mentoring junior members of the team alongside design leads.

- The ability to work with Engineering and product to drive forward design decisions, challenge limitations, negotiate with Engineering, adjust schedules, find alternatives, and make cases for designs to be implemented in a certain way.

- Experience generating new opportunities and innovative ideas to improve our processes, products, and culture, influencing design direction and research methodologies

- Fluent in both French and English

- You’ll learn everything about our company, our teams, and our vision during the first onboarding week

- You’ll familiarize yourself with the product and the accounting industry (You will have access to a lot of documentation and will assist to trainings organized by your peers)

- You’ll get a very deep knowledge of our Product and Design organization, methods, and culture

- You’ll get acquainted with the people will work with : the Design team, the PM and engineers of your squad, and of course, our users

- You will lead discovery and user research sessions ; diving into data, user feedback and business goals to tailor great user interviews and learn the best from our users.

- You will ensure a continuous delivery on your scope of the product, hand-to-hand with your PM, with the right level of quality for the right purpose (low-to-high fi, prototypes) and in consistency with the design system.

- You will contribute to the team effort, nourishing the team with your experience, reviewing your peers and tackling transversal topics.

- You will mentor juniors Product Designers

- You will participate in the recruitment of new team members

- You'll remain on the look out for the best UX/UI practices, benchmarking the global tech ecosystem, aiming towards creating the best experience for Pennylane products.

And beyond : The Design team will go from 20 people today to more than 40 in two years.

Which means you’ll have :

Multiple opportunities to recruit, mentor and manage new Designers

Increased responsibilities in project leadership

Responsibilities to think of and implement new processes, tools and best practices to make sure that your team works ever smoother

🏢 You'll be able to work remotely from anywhere in Europe, as long as your contract allows you to

💵 You’ll have a compensation package between 55k and 80k depending on your level of experience

📈 You'll get company shares to enjoy a piece of the success story you're building with us

🏡 You’ll have a budget to turn your home into a more comfortable workspace, as well as a monthly allowance to work from a coworking space whenever you feel like it

⛹️Through our partner Gymlib, you’ll have access to 8000 fitness spaces in Europe and more than 300 activities related to wellness

🇬🇧 You’ll have access to Busuu to perfect your english or your french

💻 You’ll get the latest Apple equipment

🎉 You’ll be part of a vibrant social community : we do lots of sports together (Foot, running, climbing...), we love to hang out and have a drink together (Thursday afterwork drinks on our rooftop is a usual thing. Twice-a-year we do company seminars, last time we went to enjoy the late summer in Provence - and it was fabulous !)

And.. If you're based in France :

🏢 You’ll be able to work fully from your home or any co-working space in France, or from our wonderful office in the center of Paris

🏝You’ll get 10 additional days off (to the 25 standard ones) to rest and do what you love each year

🍜 You’ll have lunch credits (Swile card) to buy your favorite food every day

🏥 You’ll have a great healthcare cover (Alan Blue) to take care of yourself and your family

- You will first have a general chat with Alina, Talent Acquisition Manager (30 min)

- You will discuss your portfolio and past experiences with a Lead Designer (45 min)

- Assessment part I : You will lead a user research simulation and identify the painpoints to address (45 min)

- Assessment part II : You will present your solution and takeaways (45 min)

- You will have a discussion with Fredrik (Head of Design) and Tancrède (CPO & Co-founder) (45 min)