Senior Product Designer at Taptap Send 1mo ago 1mo ago hybrid (London, United Kingdom +1) • 5+ years

Peerlist; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech startup is seeking a Senior Product Designer to create engaging product experiences. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience with consumer apps, particularly in fintech. This role involves collaborating across teams to bring innovative products to the market. Candidates based in London or New York will thrive in this hybrid environment, and an understanding of design systems is important.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing consumer app(s), bonus points for Fintech.
• Strong instincts for when to go deep on user research vs. build quickly and iterate.
• Ability to build and work with design systems.

Responsibilities

• Create simple and effective product journeys that embody the brand.
• Work across teams to take products from ideation to launch.
• Comfortably adapt to a rapidly changing startup environment.

Skills

User obsession

End-to-end UX skills

Experience designing consumer apps

Strong instincts for user research

Exceptional attention to detail

Job description

hybrid (London, United Kingdom / New York, United States)

Reduce inequity by helping immigrants move money home, and become the leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets.

The Team

Founded by Harvard grads / 3rd-time founders --- also founded Segovia (successful exit) and GiveDirectly (>300M revenue, fastest-growing NGO).

Top performers from top and varied organizations (e.g., Bain, Bolt, Google, McKinsey, SafeBoda, Uber, Zipline) --- we like moving fast, and we hire people that do as well.

Driven by mission, guided by values (see below) – in deed, not just word.

Team as global as the mission, >30 languages from 25 countries (i.e., if you’re interested in learning to make Chicken Moambe, we’re the place).

About Us

Taptap Send is backed by top VCs (Spark, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital, etc.), rapidly growing and a great place for those looking for both impact and a fast-paced tech startup environment. Read more about the journey in Reid Hoffman’s words or TechCrunch article. Launched in 2019, Taptap is tapping into a transformative shift in global finance: from banks to phones. While this has affected wealthier countries as well, it has been nothing short of a revolution for the emerging markets where the overwhelming majority of population had been unable to access digital finance previously. Taptap Send allows immigrants to send money home instantly and with no fee*, saving money in the process. With a formal market size of >700B alone, we’ve got a lot more saving to do for our users. Our mission is to reduce inequity by helping immigrants move money home, and become the leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets. And that’s just the beginning...

*We charge fees for transfers on fixed exchange rate corridors (e.g., XOF, XAF).

Our Investors
Spark Capital, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital (Jim Breyer), Unbound (Shravin Mittal), Wamda (Fadi Ghandour), Firstminute Capital, Slow Ventures (Sam Lessin), Helios Partners (Souleymane Ba), Crossbeam Ventures (Ali Hamed), Nikesh Arora, Samih Toukan, and many other context-specific angels

Role

We’re looking for an experienced, top performing Senior Product Designer (UX and UI) to join our team.

You will create simple and effective product journeys to bring the Taptap Send brand to life. Simple, no-hassle, and trust-worthy - but sprinkle in some fun moments of delight.

This role is perfect for you if you have deep empathy for our users (or are one yourself), and experience designing beautiful consumer mobile products. You are comfortable working cross-functionally in a rapidly changing start-up environment and assume an extreme ownership mindset. You’ll work within our Product team across engineering, growth, and go-to-market to take new products and features from ideation to launch.

Requirements

5+ years of experience designing consumer app(s), bonus points for Fintech

End-end UX skills with intuitive sense for simplicity

User obsession

Strong instincts for when to go deep on user research v. build quickly and iterate

Ability to build and work with design systems

Exceptional care for pixel-perfect detail

Brand, graphics, and/or animations skills a major plus

Comfort working closely with engineers to ship your designs

Willingness to flex schedule for meetings outside your time zone (e.g., mornings in US, evenings in UAE)

Based in London or NY

Taptap Values

Impact first

Team next

Accept reality

Propose solutions

Win with grit

Be proactively candid, with yourself and others

Love the particular

Own it

Maybe, even have fun

Taptap Send is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment decisions are decided on the basis of qualifications, experience and business need. We strongly encourage applications who are members of underrepresented communities to apply.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. Any information you provide us in this respect will only be used to accommodate your requirements.

Note: we recognize imposter syndrome is real - any candidate that does not perfectly fit every characteristic of this role is still strongly encouraged to apply.