Lead Product Designer, iwoca
Credit Compass
£80-100k
+ Share options
1+ day a week in office
Online loans for small businesses
Job no longer available
Online loans for small businesses
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
£80-100k
+ Share options
1+ day a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To fund one million small businesses.
Role
Who you are
- A strategic thinker who thrives on solving ambiguous problem spaces
- Confident leading stakeholder discussions and aligning teams with clear, structured communication
- A proactive owner who cares about impact, not just design output
- 7+ years of product design experience, including ownership of complex, data-driven products
- A portfolio demonstrating excellent interaction design and strong visual skills across shipped products
- Proven ability to lead discovery and strategy - framing problems, running research, synthesising insights
- Experience designing data-rich dashboards or tools where clarity and actionability are critical
- Strong information architecture and data visualisation capabilities
- A track record of shaping product direction, not just designing features
- A portfolio demonstrating polished execution in interaction + visual design
- Experience mentoring or coaching designers and setting a high bar for design standards
- A background working in fast-paced, iterative environments with rapid delivery and continuous learning
Desirable
- Experience in fintech, lending, or regulated financial services
- Working with data analysts/data scientists on complex models
- Experience driving trust, transparency, and behavioural change in product design
- Workshop facilitation and strong product-thinking chops
- Familiarity with long-term engagement B2B or SME-facing products
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer to join our Credit Compass team
- We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer to own the design strategy for Credit Compass, iwoca’s business-health and financing readiness product. In this role, you’ll set a long-term vision for how businesses understand, improve, and leverage their financial health, while leading end-to-end design across product strategy, UX research, data visualisation, and polished UI
- Setting the design and product direction for Credit Compass and new ventures: you’ll define how our products help small businesses understand their financial health and take the right steps to improve it. You’ll translate insight into a clear product vision and cohesive experiences that drive behaviour change and long-term engagement
- Leading end-to-end design across discovery, strategy, and delivery: you’ll own outcomes, not just outputs; mapping journeys, validating hypotheses, and shaping interfaces that balance user needs, data integrity, and commercial goals. You’ll work closely with product, engineering, and data to ensure solutions deliver measurable impact
- Turning complex data into actionable insight: you’ll design dashboards and workflows that help business owners make confident decisions. Your strength in information architecture and data visualisation will bring clarity to complex datasets, making progress visible and next steps obvious
- Driving customer-centric decisions through research excellence: you’ll lead generative and evaluative research, turning qualitative and quantitative insights into product direction. You’ll ensure we continuously test, learn, and iterate with user needs clearly represented in every major decision
- Elevating design quality and maturity across the team: you’ll guide and support junior designers, helping to shape principles, patterns, and overall design quality. You’ll contribute to a strong design culture by promoting healthy collaboration, fast feedback, and consistent execution
- Delivering products that earn trust and become indispensable: you’ll define how Credit Compass provides ongoing value, driving engagement, financial understanding, and lending readiness. You’ll help business owners feel in control of their financial journey, returning because the product truly supports their next step
Salary benchmarks
Our take
UK SMEs are the backbone of a complex economy that is constantly changing, so the need for fast and responsive access to finance is becoming more and more important to ensure their success and growth. iwoca allows SMEs access to business loans in less than a minute, with its API and business marketplace partnerships.
With offerings like iwoca's, gone are the days where waiting up to eight weeks for a loan decision was viable. Its simplified business loans of £1,000 - £500,000 come with no fees attached, and applying online takes no more than five minutes. The ready availability of iwoca loans gives business owners a level of certainty, so that they can make instant decisions to help their business grow.
iwoca has made a number of partnerships with other players in the business finance space, including an impressive industry-first invoice checkout integration with QuickBooks. Funding raised by the company, which is now operating at net profitability, will enable it to meet a recent surge in demand for corporate loans and offer more to larger SMB businesses. And the company has made several billion in funding available to over 100,000 businesses since launching, positioning itself as a leading European fintech.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Aug 2025
$16m
SERIES D
Aug 2019
$13.6m
GRANT
Total funding: $114.8m
Company benefits
- Work where you work best: Twice a year we rent houses in places like Sicily and the French Alps where each team can work together for a week poolside. We champion flexible working in all our teams
- Invest in iwoca: We want people to be invested in iwoca's success so after six months you'll be awarded share options
- Keep yourself healthy: We offer comprehensive health insurance and cash plans. You'll also get gym discounts and we host yoga classes in the office every week
- Start (and end) your day right: Each floor of iwoca HQ has a fully stocked fridge for breakfast and every Friday we unwind with beers and wine
- Life-work balance: We know your life outside of work comes first. We offer enhanced maternity and paternity leave for new parents plus a nursery benefit. We also have unlimited unpaid leave
- Learning and development: Whether you want to learn to code, experiment with motion design, or beat cognitive biases, you'll have time and budget to invest in your professional development
Company values
- Motivated: Going to work shouldn't feel like a slog, so we want everyone in the team to personally care about what they're working on. We stay motivated by celebrating our wins, learning from our mistakes, and always looking for new gaps to step into
- Smart: At iwoca being smart isn't about what you know, it's about how you think. Smart thinking means looking at each problem by asking ‘why’ first, then figuring out ‘how’
- Humble: We know all ideas are flawed, all code has bugs, and everyone makes mistakes - it’s how we learn. For us, being humble means you question yourself first, rather than your team
- Growth Mindset: We think there's always a better way to solve a problem. So we never let ourselves get comfortable with being good enough
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Christoph Rieche
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously spent 7 years at Goldman Sachs as a Vice President before co-founding iwoca in 2011.
Joost Versteeg
(CMO)Joost initially joined iwoca in 2017 as an Intern. Since then, they have held a number of roles, from Growth Analyst to Head of Commercial Strategy and became CMO in 2024.
People progressing
Serita joined as a Customer Onboarder, before moving into the Broker Team. Most recently they have been promoted to Partnership Manager.
Leo joined in 2018 as a Client Onboarder. Since then, they have worked in a number of roles and now serve as the Product Manager.
Jenny originally joined the Client Onboarding team and now leads the Customer Success department for the German business.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at iwoca
- We work hard to make iwoca a place where everyone feels welcome, where you can confidently be yourself. We understand that diversity isn't an optional add-on, it's the core ingredient of what makes us great.
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