Director, Product Design

The role

This senior leadership role will reset how Design operates and partners with the company. You will work with the VP of Product and VP of Engineering to solve complex lending experience problems within regulatory constraints.

What you will do

• Partner with VP of Product and VP of Engineering to reset the operating model
• Take ownership of hard experience problems within regulatory constraints
• Move design upstream to ensure a voice in discovery and strategy
• Set the standard and mechanisms for design excellence
• Support, nurture, and hire design talent
• Act as a senior, hands-on leader to steer and deliver strategic bets
• Drive improvement in solving customer problems and delivering business results
• Redesign departmental workflows using AI to automate tasks

Required qualifications

• Experience leading design in complex, highly regulated environments like fintech
• Skills in turning dense rules, Risk, and Compliance constraints into simple, intuitive journeys
• Strong partner to senior Product and Engineering leaders to shape strategy, scope work, and influence roadmaps
• Exceptional hands-on craft
• Commercial focus, using data and research to tie design directly to business outcomes
• Track record of building and developing design teams while evolving design operations
• Ability to take ownership of redesigning departmental workflows, using AI to automate complex tasks and drive operational efficiency
• Competently able to Identify high-impact AI use cases and implement advanced prompting techniques to solve multi-layered business challenges

Benefits

• Benefit allowance to tailor to life and family
• Private medical and dental
• Health assessments
• Access to a digital GP
• Life assurance
• Share schemes
• Financial coaching
• Dedicated annual learning allowance
• Electric car and cycle-to-work schemes
• Season ticket loans
• Award-winning parental leave policies
• Barista coffee and subsidised Just Eat lunches

About the company

Funding Circle is a fintech company that provides funding to UK small businesses using a data-driven platform. It has the energy of a start-up with the stability of a public company.