Brand Designer, GoCardless
1+ day a week in office
Making payments easier for everyone
Be an early applicant
Making payments easier for everyone
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To become the world’s bank payment network.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a proactive individual who is eager to contribute to a growing design team and make a significant impact in shaping our brand’s future
- Proficiency in Design Tools: Expertise in Figma, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop is essential for creating compelling visual assets and maintaining design consistency across our brand
- Understanding of Motion Design: A solid grasp of motion design principles and an interest in implementing animations to enhance user engagement and storytelling is crucial
- Craftsmanship and Attention to Detail: You demonstrate a profound respect for the art of design, showcasing exceptional attention to detail in every aspect of your work. You interrogate your design choices with precision, ensuring that each element serves a purpose and aligns with our brand ethos
- Business Acumen: You possess a keen understanding of the balance between desirability and deliverability. You are always mindful of company objectives, knowing when it is appropriate to ship a product and when to pause for iteration. Your design decisions are informed not only by creativity but also by business goals and user needs
- Project and Stakeholder Management: You are adept at managing multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously. You maintain a clear focus on agreed deadlines, ensuring that your contributions align seamlessly with team and company timelines
- Adaptive Problem Solving: As an adaptive, self-starting designer, you approach challenges with a flexible mindset. You are eager to experiment with new tools and emerging technologies to enhance your design processes and workflows, continuously striving for improvement
- Team Collaboration and Humility: You value humility and appreciate the power of teamwork. As a true team player, you are willing to engage in all aspects of the design process, including the less glamorous tasks that contribute to the overall success of the team
- Experience and Portfolio: You bring 3+ years of experience from either an in-house team (particularly in tech, payments, or fintech) or a respected branding agency. Your strong portfolio reflects a diverse range of projects across different media, showcasing your versatility and expertise in brand design
Desirable
- Familiarity with After Effects and Lottie: Experience with After Effects and Lottie for creating high-quality animations and interactive elements is a significant advantage, enabling the design of dynamic user experiences
- Curiosity about Modern Design Tools: Exposure to tools such as Webflow, Spline, and Framer is exciting for us and demonstrates a willingness to explore and adopt new technologies that can enhance our design capabilities
What the job involves
- GoCardless are seeking a self-motivated, curious, and inspired brand designer to join our design team
- We are at an exciting point in our journey, expanding our brand footprint and enhancing our product experience like never before
Salary benchmarks
Our take
GoCardless has emerged to facilitate recurring payments, with a focus on streamlining the subscription economy. After securing $75M in 2019 for international expansion, the company now operates in key regions, processing over $35B annually for 80,000 businesses.
Recent advancements include the acquisition of Nordigen in 2022, enabling GoCardless to leverage OpenBanking functionality and establish a robust platform for direct bank-to-bank payments. The company also achieved an impressive $312 million in Series G funding in 2022.With a strategic eye on the future, GoCardless introduced GC Embed, a white-labeling product granting other payment providers access to its premier bank payment platform.
This success is underscored by the company's commitment to innovation, exemplified by its 2019 partnership with TransferWise, integrating foreign exchange rates into its services. GoCardless continues to evolve, navigating the complex landscape of recurring payments and staying ahead of competitors like Stripe and Square, who are beginning to enter the subscription economy. With a global footprint spanning the UK, France, the US, and ANZ, GoCardless remains at the forefront of reshaping how businesses manage and process recurring payments on a massive scale.
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Insights
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45% female employees
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"I love that we have an environment of trying new things and if it doesn't work, it's okay, as long as you learn from it. This has enabled me to..."
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Feb 2022
$312m
SERIES G
Feb 2021
$105m
SERIES F
Total funding: $634.3m
Company benefits
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental pay
- 27 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work-away scheme
- Health insurance
- 4 additional wellbeing days off per year
- Equity grant for all employees
Company values
- Start With Why: We believe you can only do a job properly when you know why you are doing it. Understanding why we care about the problem motivates us to keep going until we’ve solved it
- Make it Happen: We work with urgency, and take personal accountability for getting things done in pursuit of our vision.
- Care Deeply: We care deeply about our impact on the world and those around us
- Act with Integrity: We do what’s right even when no one is watching. We don't see doing the right things as a choice — we act with integrity regardless of the cost
- Be Humble: We act without ego and don’t let excuses get in the way of achieving our goals. We believe life's too short for self-importance
Company HQ
Clerkenwell, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Hiroki Takeuchi
(CEO)Hiroki and Matt met when they were consultants. They started GoCardless during Y Combinator. After a number of years as co-founder, Matt left to start Nested.
Matt Robinson
(Board Member)Started company supplying waiters to events while at school, before joining McKinsey. Founded Nested Estate Agents in 2015 where they currently serve as CEO.
People progressing
Beccy joined GoCardless as a Sales Development Representative in May 2018 and has since had 3 promotions to become Senior Manager.
Steph joined GoCardless as an Intern in the Compliance team 4 years ago and she's now the Manager of the team.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at GoCardless
Lena Tailor (Director of D&I)
- Given the large number of hires we have been making in recent months, we have continuously reviewed both our hiring processes and channels to eliminate bias. We’ve introduced programs that attract diverse talent and we continuously seek to create hiring experiences that are fair, transparent and accessible by all
- We are working on creating a transparent framework for how we grow and develop talent in a scaling organisation. This will include bringing more clarity on internal career opportunities and provide clear expectations on the behaviours we want to see aligned to our values and commitment to building an inclusive organisation
- We have introduced systematic processes to help ensure compensation decisions are data-driven, fair and competitive. We have also invested in Reward capability and expertise to ensure we bring pay equity into every step of the employee journey
- Thanks to these employee-led groups we have been able to further our efforts in voluntary diversity data collection this year, to develop support for parents and carers, offer community mentoring opportunities in partnership with Career Accelerator, help to raise awareness and empathy during significant events of the past year, and importantly, offer more employees a community of people with whom they share experiences and interests
- To strengthen our commitment to D&I we have recently appointed our first Director of Diversity & Inclusion, an experienced culture change leader, which will allow us to have a more strategic and systematic approach to building a diverse and inclusive organisation for the long term and as we scale
- The Director will work with the executive team and ERGs to define clear D&I targets that GoCardless will commit to achieving over the next three years, and to develop a structured roadmap of initiatives aligned with those targets
- This will create greater clarity and accountability across the entire organisation on D&I progress
- We’ve got a long way to go, but here’s how we’re doing as of June 2022 - Female Employees - 46% - Ethnic background - 32% - Identify as LGBTQIA - 10% - Neurodivergent - 9%
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