AddressDepartment: Design, UX & Brand
Your Team
As a Lead Product Designer at Tide (fondly referred to as a Tidean, a mighty challenger of the banking world) you'll join an ambitious team of highly motivated, talented Tideans who love to collaborate and are driven by helping people achieve their business ambitions. We live and breathe our values, which are to put our members first, work as one team and be data driven, as part of our team, they'll matter to you too.
We're an international scale-up, we're busy! If fast-paced environments, cross-team exposure, extreme ownership, inquisitive freedom, and the ability to have a real impact on rapidly growing scale-up appeals to you, then you already have the mind of a Tidean. If you have that along with the following experience, we'd love to hear from you.
As a design team, we work closely and collaboratively, everyone's input and opinion are shared to help us all create the best work for our members. We're on a journey to create an exceptional team across multiple geographies that will create the highly useful and delightful to become the 'financial operating system' for SMEs by providing the features and services that businesses need.
About You
As a Lead Product Designer, you'll work on our consumer-facing app (iOS + Android). You'll work with the product and engineering teams on our ambitious and rapidly scaling products. You'll take the design lead on a product area/s and work within a focused team - as well as contributing to Tide's design systems and overall user experience.
You will have the responsibility to mentor a small team of Product Designers and take design ownership of the product (or family of products) that you work on. You will also interact with our most senior stakeholders, up to the executive level.
If you love what you do, are driven and passionate, then we want to hear from you. Because Tide is about doing what you love.
As a Lead Product Designer you'll:
- Demonstrate conceptual ideas and detailed design rationale both verbally and visually
- Evangelise a Design-Thinking approach and ensure that change towards this is tangible
- Set and achieve measurable, impactful outcomes for your team, for yourself and for Tide
- Take data-informed decisions about the direction and execution of a product
- Participate in design critiques to ensure the best UX and quality across Tide products
- Analyze tasks, model information, navigation and flows using UX best practices
- Contribute to the product design process, drive decisions, track issues, and assist in estimating resource needs and schedules
- Strongly influence an interdisciplinary team that includes visual designers, product owners, UX writers and engineers, advocating for the user at all times
- Represent Tide at external design events
- Contribute to the definition, scope and phasing of project timelines within an Agile framework within an OKR process
- Line-manage direct reports
The non-negotiables:
- Love to solve problems and to be challenged
- A skilled communicator who can clearly articulate their intent to peers, juniors and execs by using engaging storytelling methods
- The ability to think at a high level about product strategy and articulate design decisions
- The ability to take ownership of the design process, influence it and driving meaningful change
- Strong UX focus and understanding of human behaviours
- Strong design skills across iOS, Android and web platforms
- Advanced proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Invision, Adobe CS
- A solid portfolio featuring case studies of product design work
The desirables:
- A self-starter who brings their 'A -game' of ideas and approaches to each project they work on
- You understand how to balance user experience with business goals
- You seek out data for decision making and have experience conducting or supporting user research.
- Strong self-management skills as well as ability to work as a contributing member of a multi-discipline team
- You have experience with atomic design systems, components, and style guides.
What you'll get in return:
Make work, work for you! We are embracing new ways of working and support flexible working arrangements. With our Working Out of Office (WOO) policy our colleagues can work remotely from home or anywhere in their assigned Indian state. Additionally, you can work from a different country or Indian state for 90 days of the year. Plus, you'll get:
- Competitive salary
- Self & Family Health Insurance
- Term & Life Insurance
- OPD Benefits
- Mental wellbeing through Plumm
- Learning & Development Budget
- WFH Setup allowance
- 15 days of Privilege leaves
- 12 days of Casual leaves
- 12 days of Sick leaves
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities
- Stock Options
This is an India-based role and posting to the UK is not possible.
Tidean Ways of Working
At Tide, we're Member First and Data Driven, but above all, we're One Team. Our Working Out of Office (WOO) policy allows you to work from anywhere in the world for up to 90 days a year. We are remote first, but when you do want to meet new people, collaborate with your team or simply hang out with your colleagues, our offices are always available and equipped to the highest standard. We offer flexible working hours and trust our employees to do their work well, at times that suit them and their team.
Tide is a place for everyone
At Tide, we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture. Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels. We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status. We believe it's what makes us awesome at solving problems! We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment, where everyone's voice is heard.
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