Wagestream is on a mission to bring better financial wellbeing to frontline workers.
We partner with some of the world’s most famous employers, like Bupa, Burger King, Greene King and the mighty NHS to give their teams access to fairer financial services - all built around flexible pay. Over three million people can now choose how often they’re paid, track their shifts and earnings, start saving, use budgeting tools, get free financial coaching, and access fairer financial products. All in one financial wellbeing super-app.
Wagestream is unique: VC-backed and growing at scale-up pace, but with a social conscience. Some of the world's leading financial charities and impact funds were our founding investors, and we operate on a social charter - which means every product we build has to improve financial health and reduce the $5.6bn ‘premium’ lower-income earners pay for financial services each year.
You’d be joining a team of over 200 passionate, ambitious people, across Europe and the USA, building a category-leading fintech product and all united by that same mission.
The Opportunity:
Wagestream is hiring a hands-on Senior Product Designer to help shape the future of our financial wellbeing super-app. This is a critical, creative role where you will own the end-to-end design process for key product areas, transforming complex financial concepts into simple, beautiful, and intuitive experiences that empower millions of users.
We believe that world-class Product Design consists of 4 key elements:
UX & Interaction Design - Includes creating user flows, wireframes, and information architecture that make complex journeys feel effortless and intuitive.
UI & Visual Craft - Includes creating pixel-perfect, beautiful interfaces, and contributing to and evolving our design system to ensure consistency and quality at scale.
Strategy & Collaboration - Includes partnering with Product Managers to define problems, working with engineers to ensure feasibility, and using prototyping and testing to validate ideas and deliver impactful solutions.
User Empathy & Research - Includes understanding user needs through research, synthesising qualitative and quantitative data, and being the voice of the frontline worker in every decision.
You don't have to be a world-class expert in all of these areas for us to want to talk to you. We want to help you grow and develop your skills in areas you are less familiar with over time.
The Team:
You will be a senior member of our Product Design team, reporting to a VP of Product. You'll be embedded within a cross-functional product squad, collaborating daily with Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists and users to bring new features and improvements to life.
What will you be doing?
Design Execution & Leadership
Own the design process from discovery and concept to final, high-fidelity execution for major features across our mobile app and website.
Create wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and pixel-perfect UI for new product initiatives.
Evolve and maintain our design system, ensuring our user experience is cohesive, accessible, and scalable.
Mentor other designers on the team, providing constructive feedback and elevating the overall quality of our design output.
Champion a user-centred design culture across the entire organisation.
Strategy & Collaboration
- Partner closely with Product Managers to understand user problems and business goals, shaping the 'why' and 'what' before diving into the 'how'.
- Collaborate with engineers to understand technical constraints and ensure your designs are implemented to the highest standard.
- Work with our Data and Research teams to define and analyse A/B tests and user studies, using insights to iterate and improve the product.
- Lead the design for new, innovative features, such as the user interface for our AI-powered budgeting tool.
- Clearly articulate your design decisions and rationale to a range of stakeholders, from your squad to senior leadership.
Our Design Stack:
- Design & Prototyping: Figma
- Collaboration: Slack, Jira, Confluence
What experience might you have?
Must-haves:
- A strong portfolio showcasing your end-to-end design process and visual craft on complex, user-facing mobile apps and/or websites.
- Proven experience as a Senior Product Designer (or similar) in a fast-paced, product-led environment.
- Mastery of modern design and prototyping tools (we use Figma).
- A deep understanding of user-centred design principles and methodologies, from research and discovery to detailed UI and visual design.
- Experience working in cross-functional teams alongside Product Managers and Engineers.
- Excellent communication skills, enthusiasm, humility, and a deep desire to learn and grow.
- A preference to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment where you can have a huge impact.
Nice to haves:
- Experience designing for fintech, financial services, or B2B2C products.
- Experience building or making significant contributions to a mature design system.
- Comfort working with both qualitative and quantitative data to inform your design decisions.
- Experience designing for accessibility (WCAG).
Salary: Competitive & dependent on seniority, minimum £70,000 to £100,000 + equity
Working Policy: Hybrid, with three office days per week
Location: Central London
Benefits:
- 25 Days Annual Leave in addition to public holidays (up to 5 day rollover), as well as flexible time off allowances for any ad-hoc childcare/family/caring needs
- 24 weeks' paid Maternity Leave and 4 weeks paid Paternity Leave for employees with over 12 months service
- Special Leave for In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) and other fertility treatments
- Sabbatical scheme
- Paid leave to volunteer
- Private Healthcare including comprehensive mental and physical healthcare
- Salary sacrifice to pension, as well as bonus exchange to Pension: reap even more rewards of any bonus by paying into your pension & save on Tax and NI + added compound growth
- Season Ticket Loan
- Access to Salary Sacrifice Schemes via ThanksBen: THE Benefits marketplace. Choose the benefits you want, when you want. Pay less tax, receive more value, including: Workplace nurseries, Cycle to Work, Home and Tech Scheme and more.
- The best benefit of all, access to Wagestream!
At Wagestream we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Wagestream is an equal opportunity workplace. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, or veteran status.
