Head of Product Design, Thredd
Issuer processing partner
Job no longer available
Issuer processing partner
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform the world through true partnerships and smart payments to revolutionise the future of finance, together.
Role
Who you are
- Experience working in payments/FinTech
- Proven experience of leading and mentoring design teams in a hands-on leadership role
- Expertise in cross-functional collaboration including Product Managers, Engineers, stakeholders and users to align design vision with product roadmap and company strategy
- Strong background in defining design goals and direction for products
- Proficiency in managing design systems in Figma
- Familiar with a wide range of design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite and front-end development concepts
- Proven track record of implementing and refining design work-flows, tools and standards to enhance team efficiency, consistency and performance
- Demonstrated ability to partner with Sales and Customer Success teams
What the job involves
- We are looking for a hands-on Product Design Lead to manage and mentor the design team, playing a key part in leading and contributing to the UX/UI experience for our platform products
- You will be ensuring the design standards are aligned with industry best practices, user journeys and brand guidelines
- The Product Design Lead will define the strategy for our products, establish the principles and guidelines to ensure consistency in design language, style and functionality
- Ensuring high-quality, user-centred designs are delivered across all touchpoints, from ideation to implementation
- Partnering with sales and customer success teams to gather feedback and ensure that the product platform remains customer-centric
- Championing the voice of the user, leveraging research, data, and insights to inform design decisions and improve user satisfaction. (Indirectly linked to data-driven decision-making in design)
- Measuring and improving design impact, acting as the advocate and spokesperson for the user and design perspective in the product development process
- Defining the design goals and direction for the product or product portfolio by understanding user needs, market opportunities, business objectives, and technical constraints
- Ensuring the design system is maintained in Figma to enable rapid iteration and consistency across the design platform
- Implementing and refining design workflows, tools, and standards to enhance team efficiency and consistency
- Driving alignment on product design priorities and delivery timelines with senior stakeholders and executives
- Overseeing design workflow, assign tasks, review deliverables, and provide feedback and guidance to the team
- Define the design goals and direction for the product portfolio by understanding user needs, market opportunities, business objectives, and technical constraints
- Lead and mentor the design team, including setting design standards, processes, and tools, and driving alignment with organizational goals
- Communicate design decisions and goals effectively to the broader organization, ensuring alignment across teams and stakeholders
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Embedded banking, or Banking-as-a-Service, has been a major driver of the fintech explosion. It allows challengers and smaller players to rapidly incorporate novel financial products and infrastructure without building from scratch - and major players to keep pace with increasing consumer demand for fintech services. Thredd (formerly Global Processing Services) focuses on paytech, with a tranche of services including major areas like payments, wallets, fraud prevention, and crypto management.
This diverse offering across high-growth fintech sectors has helped Thredd draw in hefty funding, and key clients across the key fintech markets of Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East, including Revolut, Curve, Cape, and Starling Bank.
This shows quite how far Thredd has managed to capture significant market penetration, which has given it the resources to continue building out key new products. With more non-fintech businesses looking to leverage the benefits of embedded banking, this could see Thredd expand into further markets such as insurance and loans. Certainly, Thredd has both the momentum and the valuation to take the plunge into other lucrative verticals.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2022
$100m
LATE VC
Oct 2021
$300m
LATE VC
Total funding: $451.9m
Company benefits
- 25 Days annual leave
- Option to buy 5 days annual leave
- Pension scheme
- Private Medical
- Life Insurance
- Green Car Scheme
- SmartTech
- Volunteer time
- Season Ticket Loan
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Long Service Awards
- Retail Discounts
- Tax-Free Childcare Vouchers
- Flu Vaccinations
- Flexible benefits (Better you fund, Revitalise you Fund, Money Coach, Expanded Private Medical, Critical Illness)
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Jim McCarthy
(CEO)Currently Advisory Board Member at Car IQ, MagicCube and TreviPay. Also Strategic Advisor at Kyck Global.
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