Senior Designer

At Kinsworth, we aren’t just building software; we’re building a product customers love and a successful business. To achieve this, we operate at pace, we're big believers in autonomous teams and iterative development. We're crazy about continuous improvement and knowledge sharing, and we want people who share our enthusiasm.

We strive to always build the right thing and build the thing right, so we place great emphasis on understanding exactly what our customers need and delivering quality products that exceed their expectations.

We think that high-performing teams operate best through a model of build-it and run-it that comes from a deep curiosity about how our products work and how our customers use them. We use this foundation to build comprehensive product knowledge and industry expertise, but we're not dogmatic about it.

We operate in build squads that operate independently but are aligned to the same goals and ways of working. We recognise that different drives guide our roadmaps from customer needs to commercial strategy to regulatory change, and managing those dependencies is best achieved through aligned team decisions.

We make customer success everyone's business — what we are going to do and how we do it are team decisions.

We strongly believe that you grow expertise through hands-on experience, rather than just theoretical knowledge, so our approach to product leadership is designed to give you deep exposure to our products, our customers, and the fintech industry really fast. And really often.

We build our product and tech function with focus on:

• Understanding Kinsworth, the industry needs and customer use cases
• Quality is at the heart of everything we do and not just a gate in a process
• Leading product roadmaps, planning and establishing best practices
• Developing expertise in the financial services industry and regulatory environments
• Building and maintaining exceptional customer relationships through team excellence
• Zero-to-one function building — creating product delivery frameworks, engineering performance systems, and product delivery processes from the ground up
• Building and leveraging AI technology to enhance product features and development workflows

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• Lead design from discovery through delivery, grounded in user-centred (UCD) principles
• Work closely with Product Management and Engineering to shape features that balance user experience (UX), commercial goals and technical feasibility
• Break down complex and ambiguous problem spaces into clear flows, interactions and design solutions
• Create sketches, wireframes and low-to-high fidelity prototypes to explore, validate and communicate ideas
• Design intuitive and well-crafted user interfaces across mobile and web applying brands consistently across product interactions
• Design experiences that interface with SDKs, APIs, and modular frameworks especially across mobile and platform layers
• Manage and mentor other designers within the team
• Contribute to and help scale, create and maintain our design systems
• Facilitate and participate in design sprints and workshops, turning ideas and insights into actionable concepts
• Apply user research methodologies and usability testing to inform and improve designs

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Location

We describe ourselves as “remote but not remote only”.

We believe work can be done anywhere but relationships and trust are built best face-to-face. And that the best teams take ownership for themselves.

We strongly believe our people should decide where they will do the best work for the company.  We don’t support presenteeism, nor do we support missing important face-to-face meetings to receive an Amazon delivery at home.  But if you take ownership of yours and your teams’ deliveries, and will work where you need to be to get the best outcome for the company, whether that be at home, in the office in London, or meeting strategic partners, then you’re for us.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday
• Birthday day off
• Workplace Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Private Dental Insurance
• Group Income Protection
• Group Life Assurance
• 24-hour mental health support
• Equity Scheme (coming soon!)- Experience designing consumer products with a strong commercial awareness, and strong creative judgement
• Experience working in or with fintech products is desirable
• Strong UX and interaction design skills across complex product domains with an ability to translate them into clear, usable and scalable interaction models
• You communicate exceptionally with stakeholders, clients and collaborate effectively with product and engineering teams to shape and deliver design work
• Proven ability to design both mobile and web-based platforms with a solid understanding of visual design, UI patterns and brand expression
• Proven track record of taking features and products from concept (0) to launch (1), with deep experience building new solutions from the ground up.
• Confident using user research techniques and methodologies to inform and improve design
• Comfortable designing for API-driven and modular platforms
• Experience using customer feedback and real usage to continuously iterate and improve designs
• Comfortable experimenting with AI tools for rapid exploration and prototyping
• Illustration, animation or motion skills are a plus
• Excited by the prospect of joining the early stages of a business and happy to get involved in multiple areas
• Design QA/UAT is desirableAt Kinsworth we focus hard on getting the best talent into our team. We are committed to making our recruitment process transparent and simple.

We are committed to diversity and will always accommodate your needs during our hiring process.

Step 1: Meet the recruiter

If you meet the grade we will have a short discussion with you to understand you more and get to know us and the role.

Step 2: First (technical) interview

The team you could be working with will interview you. Some roles have a technical part of the interview process.

Step 3: Second (final) interview

A second stage interview will go deeper about you and how you align with us as a company.

Step 4: Decision

We will make a decision and let you know why. We will never ghost you or give you generic feedback.