Product Designer

Job Title: Product Designer
Location: London

Are you ready to make a significant impact in a company that is embracing the power of product design? Join our growing team of designers and UX researchers as a Product Designer. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping not just a project but the fundamentals and processes of an entire organization.

Why This Role is Exciting:

• Transformational Impact: Lead complex UX projects and design solutions that enhance user experiences for investment professionals worldwide.
• Strategic Influence: Play a key role in developing our product vision and roadmap, gathering requirements from users and internal colleagues.
• Collaborative Environment: Work closely with product designers, UX researchers, BAs, engineers, and product managers to drive innovative solutions.
• Dynamic Role: Take on a multifaceted design role that combines UI, UX, and evangelism, influencing and inspiring the entire organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Run Complex UX Projects: Design for both user and business needs, ensuring consistency of patterns across our estate.
• Vision and Roadmap Development: Contribute to the development of our product vision and roadmap.
• Requirement Gathering: Collect requirements from users and internal colleagues to inform design decisions.
• Workshops and Co-Design: Facilitate workshops and co-design sessions to foster collaboration and innovation.
• Prototyping: Build functioning prototypes to test with customers, ensuring designs meet user needs.
• Research and Strategy Development: Play a key role in developing user research and design strategy.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product designers, UX researchers, BAs, engineers, and product managers to deliver high-quality design solutions.

About You:

• Open-Minded and Humble: You approach design with an open mind and a humble attitude, ready to learn and adapt.
• Articulate Communicator: Strong communication skills and a seasoned presenter, able to articulate your ideas clearly.
• Perfection Realist: You understand that perfection is rarely possible and are flexible in finding the best solutions.
• Proficient in Figma: Skilled in Figma with experience in building design systems.
• Tech-Savvy: Familiarity with front-end development.
• Specialized Markets Interest: Interest or experience in specialized markets is a plus.

• Generous Leave: 25 days annual leave (+8 bank holidays)
• Holiday-Flex: Any permanent employee of PEI can buy or sell up to three holiday days
• Long Service Award: Increased holiday allowance according to length of service up to 4 years
• Gifted Christmas Break: PEI shut down our offices between Christmas and New Year and gift you this period so you can rest, recuperate and energise for the next year ahead
• Volunteer Time: 4 days of volunteer leave per year (fully paid) to give back to your community
• Comprehensive Benefits: Life Cover, Private Medical Insurance
• On-site Gym: PEI has a large state-of-the-art gym on-site, with access 24/7. Includes all standard gym equipment, Peloton gear, classes available to book, luxury showers and access to a drying room and lockers
• Financial Perks: Employee Incentive Reward Scheme, 4.5% matches pension contribution and a Cycle to Work Scheme, Employee Referral Scheme
• Employee Support: Employee Assistance Programme to enhance employee’s wellbeing & Referral Scheme to help reward your network
• Hybrid Working: Enjoy a hybrid working policy to balance your professional & personal life