Staff Product Designer

About Translucent

Translucent is revolutionising the accounting landscape by addressing the financial challenges faced by 5-7% of companies globally. Founded by seasoned entrepreneurs who sold a successful multi-million dollar company and have extensive experience with leading global firms, Translucent brings unparalleled expertise. Recognised as the Xero App of the Year in 2024, we are headquartered in London, UK. Our diverse team operates remotely across various locations, adhering to the London timezone. We gather twice yearly for onsite meetings and host multiple in-person events to foster collaboration and innovation.

About the Role

Translucent is a company of relentlessly curious individuals dedicated to solving real customer problems. We foster a community where team members overcome any technical stack or roadblocks to deliver exceptional solutions. We hire talented professionals with a broad set of skills who are highly cross-functional and eager to tackle various challenges. Each individual will make an outsized impact as a small team at Translucent.

We seek a Staff Product Designer who will lead and build the team, motivated by the opportunity to learn from exceptional co-workers and deliver delightful customer experiences—a ground-floor opportunity in a design-driven company. Join a hyper-collaborative design team and gain autonomy, ownership, and significant impact across the entire product. You will evolve our design process, own entire projects, and build a diverse team that champions our users’ voices and delivers incredible experiences daily.

What You’ll Do

• Design for Scale: Build and refine Translucent’s products to scale with thousands of customers, ensuring user-centric design for diverse use cases.
• Obsess Over Craft: Sweat the details, strive for simplicity, and seamlessly connect projects to make complex financial and accounting tasks approachable.
• Experiment and Innovate: Drive experimentation, user testing, and measurement to refine the product and ensure iterative alignment with customer needs.
• Be a Cross-Functional Leader: Collaborate closely with business operations, marketing, sales, product, and engineering teams to shape product vision and execution.
• Set the Design Standard: Lead by example, mentor and manage team members, and foster a design culture of quality, feedback, and continuous improvement.
• Stay Hands-On: Own the end-to-end design process, from discovery and wireframes to high-fidelity prototypes and design specifications.

Requirements

What You Need

• Startup Experience: At least seven years of experience designing and shipping high-quality products at scale in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities, with a portfolio showcasing relevant projects. Adaptable to ambiguity and hands-on problem-solving.
• Design Expertise: Proven ability to translate complex business and product challenges into pragmatic, elegant design solutions and a deep understanding of how designs are implemented in code.
• Fintech Experience (Preferred): Familiarity with designing financial or accounting tools or experience working with dense, data-rich interfaces.
• Customer Obsession: Deep empathy for users and a commitment to addressing their pain points effectively.
• AI Exploration: Passion for leveraging AI to optimize design workflows, improve processes, or even conceptualise and build an AI-driven product design assistant.
• Systematic Thinking: Experience creating and maintaining design systems for complex products.
• Leadership: Strong mentorship skills, with the ability to inspire and guide team members toward exceptional outcomes. Proven track record of building high-performing design teams.

Benefits

• Salary: Up to £110k p.a. + option package
• Holidays: 23 days p.a. + the days between Christmas and New Year + Local public holidays
• Location: Remote, working in UK/PT timezone +/- 2 hours.