Lead Product Designer

Primer

An Introduction to Primer Primer is the unified infrastructure for global payments. We give finance and payments teams the visibility and control to reduce complexity, improve performance, and capture more revenue - all from a single platform. Backed by Sofina, Peak XV Partners, ICONIQ, Tencent, Accel, and Balderton, we're building the payments layer the world's best companies rely on. Watch our showcase > Read up on our $100m Series C Learn more about our culture > Primer is the payments infrastructure that lets merchants connect and orchestrate every payment service they use through a single platform, without being locked to any one processor. Design owns how that complexity ends up feeling simple to the people who actually use it. You will lead a small design team behind the core merchant product experience: the workspace where customers build, test and run their payment flows. This is a player-coach role. You’ll lead through the work, staying close to hands-on design as well as managing a team of product designers. The design challenges you’ll be working with are complex and wide-ranging. This is a role where you’ll need solid UX thinking as well as visual polish, and the ability to work in systems, flows and states. Getting it right means real depth in the problem and ownership of an elegant solution. Design here is small and high-calibre by choice. You sit as an equal alongside Product and Engineering leads, not downstream of them. The team is remote-first and globally distributed, and that will not change. WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING? * Drive the experience strategy and quality bar for your domain. You set what good looks like and you make the final call on the major design trade-offs. * Lead and develop a growing team of designers. Coach through real work, run critique that raises the bar, and have honest development conversations rather than comfortable ones. * You’ll be working on high-leverage design problems yourself, identifying areas of opportunities as well as supporting product roadmaps. * Partner with Product and Engineering leads as an equal voice on strategy for the area. You will help to shape what gets built and why, not only how it looks. * Extend the design system wherever your area exposes a gap, adding patterns and components the rest of design reuses. * Lead the research that uncovers the non-obvious problems across the different people who depend on the product, then turn it into direction. * Unblock engineering on the messy questions where the ideal design meets a real constraint, and find the answer that protects the experience. * Build the practices, critique, file standards and handoff that let a small team move fast without dropping quality. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR * A strong portfolio of shipped product design on complex, systems-heavy products. SaaS, fintech, infrastructure or developer-facing work is the closest fit. * Experience leading designers, formally or as the senior person others looked to. You know how to raise quality through other people, not only your own hands. * Real craft depth across interaction, visual and information architecture. You’re familiar with setting and levelling up the standard of work you’re driving. Things are better because you’ve been involved. * A history of owning a domain end to end, from ambiguous problem to shipped, measured outcome. * The judgment to know when to go deep and when to move, and the autonomy to run an area without close management. NICE TO HAVE: * Familiarity with payments, financial services or another regulated, high-stakes domain. * Experience building or extending a design system in production. YOU MAY NOT LIKE IT HERE * If you want to step out of the tools entirely and manage, this is not it. We’re a team of builders where everyone stays close to the work and the problems we’re solving. We value great management, but believe in leading through the work not apart from it. * High autonomy means low hand-holding. Nobody hands you a defined roadmap or tells you how to run your area. You set the direction and you own the result. * The problem space is dense and complex. You will spend real time understanding how payments actually work, not just the visible interface. * Remote-first means written, asynchronous and self-directed. If you need an office to do your best work, you will struggle here. ✅ A TYPICAL INTERVIEW PROCESS * An initial intro call with a Talent Partner * An interview with the Hiring Manager * Challenge Stage - Contextualised to the role * A final, values-alignment interview WHAT'S THE CULTURE LIKE AT PRIMER? We're building a culture where people can do their best work and be proud of the impact they have. You'll be working with people who are mission-driven, smart, and reflective, and who are genuinely invested in building exceptional products and delivering success for our merchants. We work remotely, and have done since day one. We believe that building a successful, profitable company goes beyond proximity. We invest in our relationships through great remote working practices and thoughtfully designed face-to-face time, including workations, our annual company retreat, and access to co-working spaces across most major cities. The work is challenging. Scaleups are a challenge, and building category-defining products is a challenge. But there's a meaningful difference between a challenge and a struggle. At Primer, the right challenge comes with the right support: strong onboarding, a collaborative environment, and a team that is genuinely invested in your success. It's never something you face alone. OUR BENEFITS 🌍 We are fully remote and globally distributed; and have been since day one 💰 Competitive share options 🌴 Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken 🗣️ Co-working space access across major cities 📅 Workations & Company Retreat 💻 The best equipment for your role 🏠 £500 towards your home office setup 🔎 Generous learning budget 🏥 Private Medical Insurance 📈 A broad set of additional perks and benefits (depending on location) DON’T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT? At Primer, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification listed, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles. Primer is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and adopts a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination, regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, or any other background or belief.

Reedsy

Europe-based applicants only. About Reedsy We’re here to give authors the tools and resources they need to create beautiful books. Our marketplace gathers the industry's best publishing professionals — the likes of Neil Gaiman's editor, Nora Roberts' book marketer, and GRRM’s cover designer. We’ve grown to a community of 5,000,000 authors, and transformed the way people write and publish their book. Want to hop on board and help us get to our next destination? Cool, keep reading! Responsibilities As a UX/UI Designer, you will be working closely with our founders, Lead Designer and engineering team to craft beautiful interfaces and develop an outstanding user experience. Working across multiple products, you will: * Design new user journeys, features and products; * Contribute to maintaining and evolving existing applications; * Design and maintain the components, UI patterns, and documentation for Reedsy’s design system and component library; * Develop (at least some of) the front-end for your designs and collaborate closely with our engineering team to ensure perfect implementation. Requirements * 5+ years of experience as UX/UI designer and ability to implement (some of) your own designs; * You enjoy learning about complex concepts, dissecting them, and simplifying them for the team and ultimately users. * Knowledge of design tools such as Sketch or Figma; * Strong knowledge of interaction design, information architecture, and visual design principles; * A portfolio of design work; * Good, critical eye for detail; * Perfectly fluent in English, great communication skills; * Experience working remotely. Bonus points * Experience working with fast-growing Series A – B startups * Experience with Ruby on Rails * Fluent in multiple languages. Reedsy welcomes applicants of all cultures and backgrounds. * A good dose of ambition, a willingness to learn, and a great sense of humor

Cambridge Consultants

INTRODUCTION SUMMARY We are on the lookout for a talented and ambitious Technical Specialist/Lead to join our Security and Defence, Systems and Technology team here in Cambridge, UK. The role is within the Defence & Security Business Unit that undertakes the development of innovative new products across the entire product life cycle. The role will be primarily technical development for our defence and security clients within UK government, although there will be scope to get involved in a variety of projects for our commercial and wider public sector clients. Projects typically consist of early concept work, through prototype manufacture, to new product introduction, often surmounting considerable technical challenges as we push the boundary of what is possible. We combine highly creative lateral thinking with excellent technical skills and we’re looking for broad defence and security industry experience to help us form powerful development teams. WHAT WE CAN OFFER We can offer you variety, and the chance to work in a dynamic environment buzzing with the excitement of innovation that is having a real effect on people’s lives. The projects you will be involved in will typically be highly complex, spanning the entire product development lifecycle. You will take responsibility for delivering the technical aspects of a project or workstream, working within multi-disciplinary teams of talented engineers, scientists, and designers in delivering novel products and services to market for a wide variety of clients. You will always have the support of experienced Programme Managers and Technical Authorities ready to guide you towards more complex projects as your career develops. We believe that a supportive environment is the way to bring the best out of each other. We will actively promote your progression and provide you with the opportunity to take on increasingly challenging tasks. Your specific responsibilities will vary according to your expertise but are likely to include: * Working on the detailed, day-to-day, technical implementation of projects across a variety of applications, likely with a significant amount of S&T (Science and Technology) or Research and Development content * Technical leadership of the delivery of projects that solve complex, multi-disciplinary technical challenges, potentially across multi-office teams * Capturing technical product requirements and resolving system level discussions, requiring a strong and broad technical background * Running meetings with clients and other stakeholders, presenting and communicating ideas and concepts to all disciplines, to ensure project success * Supporting Project Managers to develop project proposals that meet our government clients’ commercial and technical requirements, and Business Developers in building relationships with clients to understand their technical needs. This will be primarily for UK-based government clients This role will require some domestic UK-based travel but is focussed on working with project teams within the Cambridge office. We have adopted a hybrid working model, with a mix of both home and office working, based on project need: given the nature of our UK government work, you are likely to need to spend the majority of your time in the Cambridge office.   WHAT YOU CAN BRING You will have experience of contributing to (and potentially leading the technical aspects of) medium to large sized technical product development projects.  You will have a degree in engineering, or a relevant scientific discipline such as Electronics, Software, Physics, Chemistry or Sensing systems, with hands-on experience of product or system development within a team. You will have deep technical skills in one or more of: high-speed and/or RF electronics design, embedded software, or FPGA development, with broad background knowledge to draw on to aid contextualising your specialism as part of a wider team. You will be familiar with the basics of Linux systems, networking, and computer security. Naturally you will also have strong time management, written and verbal communication, and organisational skills. Our UK government work and client base coves a very broad spectrum, so we would also be very interested if you have any of the following: * UK Government security clearance * A passion for innovation * New product introduction / design for manufacture experience * Previous experience of working at a consulting / fee for service organisation * A strong desire to deliver outputs for Defence through Science and Technology * Existing knowledge of best practice in the development of products and systems * People skills and networks to build strong working relationships across the defence and security innovation ecosystem, including UK MOD, DSTL, Defence Innovation Unit and Innovation Hubs, a range of security customers and Government departments * Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check, be willing to undertake UK government security clearance and must be a UK passport holder.   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By submitting an application to Cambridge Consultants, you confirm that the information provided in this application, together with any supporting documentation, is true, complete, and accurate to the best of your knowledge and belief. 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