Product Designer

Who you are

• You've been the design lead on a squad or team - the only designer in the room, making the call. You can walk us through a real piece of work from requirement to shipped software and show us your decisions along the way
• You're a self-starter. Remote, embedded, sole designer: nobody is going to sequence your week for you
• You use generative AI in your design practice, or you've been actively exploring it. We don’t need you to be an expert - we need real curiosity and evidence you have tried things. You aren’t afraid to dabble in the Terminal. You’re experimental. Come ready to show us what you have built, broken or learned
• You design well for complex, data-dense products, and you write clearly enough that a remote team can follow your reasoning without a meeting
• A portfolio that shows your thinking and your process, not just the final screens
• Experience with accounting, finance or budgeting software
• B2B SaaS experience, particularly where users are professionals doing serious work under time pressure
• Experience designing interfaces on top of AI output - review states, confidence, correction, human-in-the-loop
• Experience designing across a multi-product platform or suite, rather than a single application
• Public-sector, education or otherwise regulated-domain experience

What the job involves

• We’re looking for a Product Designer to support our product squads and help grow our design operations
• You’ll be the only designer in the squads you support, taking prioritised requirements through divergent concepts, testing, iteration and convergence to something shipped and working in front of real finance teams - and you’ll stay with it through build. You’ll set the pace, make the calls, and bring engineering and product with you
• You will be one of two designers at IMP, working directly with our Head of Product Design. That is a deliberately small function: high autonomy, a short line to every decision, and nothing between you and the work. You will not be managing anyone
• No surprises here, but just to be explicit: your squads’ Product Owners run the discovery research that decides which user needs we address and in what order. From the point those prioritised requirements land, the design is yours:
• Concept generation. Diverge first. Turn requirements into multiple concept variants that open the problem up and get teams thinking
• Usability testing. Test concepts with real users and our in-house domain experts - colleagues who have run MAT finance first-hand
• Collecting feedback + iterating. Fold the feedback back in, and support the squad in landing on a final solution everyone understands and you can defend
• Stay with it through build. Support the team through story breakdown and technical refinement, so what ships is what was agreed
• But you won’t be on your own:
• Domain experts on-hand: You’ll be supported by stupendously knowledgeable product owners and product specialists helping you get the domain knowledge nailed
• Peer review, No donuts - You’ll be able to bounce ideas off and do peer reviews with the head of design (who designs our other products). And you’ll be working in a team of people who literally embody our company principle of “Don’t be a donut” who will treat you with respect and dignity and expect the same in return
• Regular planning, coaching and mentoring – You’ll be expected to manage your own work, but we have two dedicated sessions every week: one at the beginning to help plan your week, and one at the end to focus on you, your wellbeing and helping with any coaching and mentoring you’d like support with

Benefits

• Remote based role
• Funded CPD
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Allowance for home office - £200 to make your set up perfect!
• 27 days + bank holidays with a buy back option
• Private health insurance including dental cover and opticians!
• Broadband allowance - £26 per month tax free
• Life insurance
• Fully expensed company meet ups/socials in Birmingham and Bristol (4 x per year)