About
At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business.
Responsibilities
•Lead design work across multiple product areas, solving complex, ambiguous problems with product owners and tech leads
•Anticipating and pre-empting unintended consequences and risks
•Own the entire product design lifecycle, from discovery through to delivery, ensuring your work directly impacts the domains goals and desired outcomes
•Design the visual and functional experience of our mobile SDKs and web portals for your product domains, such as payments, lending, saving, onboarding, and cards to name a few
•Adopt and develop our multi-brand design system to ensure a consistent user experience and unrivaled client configuration
•Contribute to our ways-of-working, suggesting improvements and simplifications to team processes
•Ensure our products are designed and documented to a standard that enables rapid adoption and meaningful configuration by our clients
•Champion design, both internally and externally, demonstrating how best-in-class design can transform banking
Requirements
•5+ years experience as a UX / Product Designer working with design systems, tools, and research platforms (Figma, User Testing etc)
•Lots of examples of designing thoughtful, accessible experiences for customers, driving inclusive and accessible design that demonstrates tangible impact for customers and businesses
•Accomplished visual design quality - able to push and evolve our design language to the next level
•Experience planning and running various research methods to test and evaluate our ideas
•Proactively communicates complex design decisions and strategies persuasively to all audiences and stakeholders. Anticipates and challenges design decisions that conflict with principles or user safety
•The Engine team is a collaborative and friendly environment where we encourage openness and the sharing of opinions. You should be comfortable seeking and giving feedback, sharing your work, and contributing to discussions
•This role also involves partnering effectively with cross-functional stakeholders and product owners
Nice to have
•Experience in a Product Design role for a FinTech or Software Startup / Scaleup - ideally with mobile design experience
•Experience navigating and resolving conflicting requirements between end-users and enterprise clients, making pragmatic design trade-offs that satisfy both user needs and business viability
•Experience designing across multiple platforms end-to-end, sometimes simultaneously, including iOS, Android, and Web
•Practical experience driving adoption, alignment, and maturity of a design system - extending the system beyond Figma and UI components
•Strong visual craft (illustration, iconography, motion etc), with a desire to define visual standards that help the wider design team maintain standards
•Experience leading internal 'communities of practice' to improve a specific area of design maturity (e.g. research, accessibility, or design systems)
•Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, or related field (or equivalent professional experience)
Conditions
•We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person
•33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you)
•An extra day's holiday for your birthday
•Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
•16 hours paid volunteering time a year
•Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
•Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
•Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care
•Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
•Generous family-friendly policies
•Incentives refer a friend scheme
•Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
•Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing
