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Lead Product Designer
Apron 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Lead Product Designer will own the design process end-to-end for the core payments product, enhancing user experience and driving innovation. They will also coach other designers and maintain a design system for consistency across the product.
Responsibilities
- Own design end-to-end within the core payments product
- Actively suggest product improvements to enhance user experience and drive innovation
- Design interfaces that are both functional and delightful for genuinely complex financial workflows
- Contribute to and help maintain a design system that promotes consistency and scalability across the product
- Coach and guide other designers, raising the quality bar across the team through feedback, process improvements and documented design knowledge
- Stay informed about industry trends, competitor products, and emerging design patterns to ensure the product remains competitive and innovative
- Collaborate with UX researchers to gather user insights, analyse data, and translate findings into actionable design improvements
Requirements
- 5+ years of product design experience, ideally in a B2B context
- Proven ability to design end-to-end across large, ambiguous product areas
- Strong systems thinker - comfortable with high-abstract tasks and system-level decisions
- A portfolio of 2-3 cases that demonstrate strategic impact, not just execution
- Natural collaborator who co-leads with PMs rather than waiting for direction
- Someone who raises the bar around them - through feedback, documentation and design culture
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary + meaningful stock options
- Pension plan with Nest
- Health insurance (including Optical and Dental cover), Life Assurance
- Enhanced parental leave
- Weekly Deliveroo allowance
- 29 days of holidays (on top of Bank holidays)
- Flexible working hours
- Hybrid work 3 days a week in our London (Liverpool Street) offices
- Cycle to Work scheme, Electric vehicle scheme
Key Skills
About Apron
Pay suppliers, pay staff, issue expense cards, and let your most tedious bookkeeping tasks run themselves. It all happens together in Apron. One single source of truth, from the moment money is spent, to the moment it’s recorded in your ledger. Built for a new generation of business owners, accountants and bookkeepers who have seen what’s possible with their personal money, and who expect the same from their business money. For business owners, Apron brings unprecedented clarity and control to business spending. Manage your cash flow and earn Apron points on every payment you make, including supplier payments, payroll, HMRC and team expenses. Convert them 1:1 into Virgin Points for unforgettable experiences with Virgin Red and Virgin Atlantic Flying Club. For accountants and bookkeepers, Apron’s William AI automates essential but repetitive tasks like document extraction, categorisation and publishing, while eliminating document chasing at its source; so you can increase capacity w
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