Senior UX/UI Product Designer, Swoop
UX heavyweight / UI light / Figma wizard
£50-60k
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Business funding and savings platform
Job no longer available
Business funding and savings platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
£50-60k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To demystify the search for business funding and empower SMEs around the world to access the funds they need to grow their businesses
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience working as a Product/UX designer for 5+ years
- Strong portfolio of key UX projects delivered, calling out your role on the project, deliverables and responsibilities articulated
- Excellent communication skills and a portfolio which demonstrates strong problem-solving ability in various phases of research, design and delivery
- In-Depth knowledge and experience in user research and testing, with the ability to approach to dissect both qualitative and quantitative data
- Extensive experience building prototypes
- High proficiency in Figma
- Comfortable working with Design Systems in an organised manner
- Experience developing detailed, holistic user-flow specifications and design patterns, including documentation
What the job involves
- Work through design problems from beginning to end: unpacking the problem, ideating new products and features, prototyping, user validation and finally creating detailed interactions to handover to engineering
- Sketch/wireframe and prototype ideas to assess the viability of a solution early on in the design process
- Validate design solutions with our target audience, using both qualitative and quantitative methods
- Collate business needs as well as iterate on feedback from teams and analytics
- Collaborate with PMs as they define product development focus areas and with engineers as they build
- Champion best practices of usability and user-centric design
- Identify and document (UX) design patterns. Establish and work to Design Principles
- Influence product strategy. Ability to negotiate, prioritise, and break down design work into measurable outcomes
- Experience in balancing data-driven decisions with design expert intuition
- Stand for the quality of our product. Knowing when to challenge the brief if necessary
- User Research and Testing experience. Define and run user research sessions
- Analytical thinker. You can think through complex interaction problems with a systematic approach and attention to detail
- Comfortable with ambiguity and thrive in the fast-paced startup environment that is operating remotely around the globe
- Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills, in cross-functional teams
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
In recent years there has been a significant growth in alternative finance, grants and schemes for SMEs, but Swoop recognises that the expanding supply of finance requires intelligent delivery. Swoop is a FinTech solution supporting SMEs to access funding, addressing the need for fair access for SMEs to the banking services market.
The company's unique algorithms seamlessly connects SMEs to suitable and viable options, helping companies to understand their financial position and access services bespoke to their needs. It has with over 75,000 companies, comparing 1000s of products. The effective provision of finance and banking services to SMEs is crucial for boosting economic performance.
Following increased demand for SME financing, Swoop has recently secured funding which will be used to support its plans for international expansion, in particular the North American market, according to CEO Andrea Reynolds. The company forecasts its revenues to rise by 450 per cent this year and hopes its growth will facilitate this.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$7m
SERIES A
Apr 2022
$6.6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $23.7m
Company benefits
- Option to work from anywhere. Results are what count
- Private health insurance
- Share options scheme
- Paid volunteer days
- Choice of Mac of PC
Company values
- Global
- Resilient
- Integrity
- Innovation
- Together
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Articles
Founders
Andrea Reynolds
(CEO)Worked as a management consultant at KPMG and has consulted for both large companies and SMEs alike.
Ciaran Burke
(COO)Started at KPMG as a market analyst before working as a management consultant with a range of clients and oversaw the launch of Hiive.co.uk.
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