Product Designer
We’re looking for a talented Product Designer to join our Product and Design team and help shape the future of banking.
You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements and user insights into visually appealing, functional and user-friendly designs – making sure that what you’re creating always meets users’ needs. This role is unique as you’ll work closely with the Director of Product Design and be part of different squads and across a variety of projects, depending on roadmap priorities.
You’ll be 👋
- Collaborating with product managers, engineers and stakeholders to understand business objectives, user needs and project requirements.
- Designing interactions that put usability first to create delightful, intuitive and accessible products and experiences.
- Creating high-impact designs, user flows, wireframes, sitemaps and prototypes.
- Presenting your work to peers, partners and stakeholders, and articulating how it meets user insights and business goals.
- Iterating on your designs based on user feedback, usability testing and data-driven insights.
- Supporting engineers to build the best products possible, and working closely to ensure that what’s been designed gets built.
- Sharing knowledge and learnings with your peers, pushing design standards forward and always seeking new ideas and input.
- Championing both the brand and the user to help get us closer to our overarching product vision.
You are 👷♀️
- Empathetic, strategic, and collaborative.
- An excellent communicator.
- Proactive and able to connect the dots.
- Excited to share works in progress and enjoy collaborating to evolve your work further.
- Passionate about your craft, with a keen eye for detail.
- Comfortable operating in a multi-disciplinary team, making the necessary compromises and iterations to keep up the momentum.
- Empathetic, strategic, and collaborative.
- An excellent communicator.
- Proactive and able to connect the dots.
- Excited to share works in progress and enjoy collaborating to evolve your work further.
- Passionate about your craft, with a keen eye for detail.
- Comfortable operating in a multi-disciplinary team, making the necessary compromises and iterations to keep up the momentum.
You'll need 🧱
- Proven experience as a Product Designer or UI/UX Designer (or similar role), with a track record of delivering high-quality digital experiences (ideally in an agile environment) and a portfolio to match.
- To be comfortable connecting strategic goals with exceptional design solutions while understanding technical feasibility and constraints.
- Experience across the spectrum of product design, including running user research sessions and using feedback to guide your work, prototyping, and testing solutions, designing interfaces, and delivering high-fidelity designs for development.
- To not only be familiar with product design but also service and motion design and be comfortable incorporating high-res prototyping into your work.
- To be an expert in tools such as Figma, Sketchand/or the Adobe Suite.
- A concrete understanding of and experience with Design Systems and Pattern Libraries.
How we expect you behave ❤️
- We embrace difference and know that when we can be ourselves at work, we are happier, more motivated, and creative. We want to be able to bring our whole selves to work, have our own perspectives and know that we belong. As such, through your behaviours at work, we expect you to reflect and actively sustain a healthy engineering environment that looks like this:
- A wide range of voices heard to the benefit of all
- Teams that are clearly happy, engaged, and laugh together
- Perceivable safety to have an opinion or ask a question No egos - people listen to and learn from others at all levels, with strong opinions held loosely
What makes working here better 😍
- Flexible, Hybrid Working 🏠 - A flexible, Hybrid team with a dedicated London office available 5 days a week to use as we want to.
- Work-life balance 🌴 - 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) each year, and enhanced family leave allowances.
- Competitive salary & equity 🏦 - We want people to have a serious stake in the business.
- Good kit 💻 - Your choice of the best laptop, running macOS or Ubuntu.
- Team socials 🎉 - The opportunity to get to know each other outside of work.
- Company socials 🥡 - A chance to catch up and meet new colleagues weekly over informal office breakfasts and dinners on OakNorth - or at our free barista bar every day.
- Commuter support 🚲 - We offer the cycle to work scheme.
We’re OakNorth Bank and we embolden entrepreneurs to realise their ambitions, understand their markets, and apply data intelligence to everyday decisions to scale successfully at pace.
Banking should be barrier-free. It’s a belief at our very core, inspired by our entrepreneurial spirit, driven by the unmet financial needs of millions, and delivered by our data-driven tools.
And for those who love helping businesses thrive? Our savings accounts help diversify the high street and create new jobs, all while earning savers some of the highest interest on the market.
But we go beyond finance, to empower our people, encourage professional growth and create an environment where everyone can thrive. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse workplace where people can be themselves and succeed.
Our story
OakNorth Bank was built on the foundations of frustrations with old-school banking. In 2005, when our founders tried to get capital for their data analytics company, the computer said ‘no’. Unfortunately, all major banks in the UK were using the same computer – and it was broken.
Why was it so difficult for a profitable business with impressive cashflow, retained clients, and clear commercial success to get a loan?
The industry was backward-looking and too focused on historic financials, rather than future potential.
So, what if there was a bank, founded by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs? One that offered a dramatically better borrowing experience for businesses?
No more what ifs, OakNorth Bank exists.
