The Role
Lead and mentor a team of product designers to enhance user experience for a financial operating system catered to SMEs, focusing on UX opportunities and design consistency.
Summary Generated by Built In
Are you looking to have an impact on the daily life of millions of entrepreneurs in France (and tomorrow in Europe)?
Are you looking for a work environment that values trust, proactivity, and autonomy?
Are our Engineering principles aligned with your vision?
Then Pennylane is the right place for you !
Our vision
We aim to become the most beloved financial Operating System of French SMEs and Accounting Firms (and soon, European ones).
We help entrepreneurs rid themselves of time-consuming tasks related to accounting and finance while providing them with access to key financial information to assist in making the best decisions for their business.
About us
Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France (and soon to be in Europe!)
In 5 years of existence, we’ve managed to :
💻 Make ourselves known as a groundbreaking accounting and financial software for small businesses and their accountants
💰 Raise a total of €225 millions, including from Sequoia, the famous fund from the Silicon Valley who invested early in companies like Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Stripe, Paypal and much more...
👨👩👧👦 Grow from 7 cofounders to 800 happy Pennylaners : we’re now recognized as one of the greatest places to work in France (and also remotely), with a 4.6/5 rating on Glassdoor.
🌍 Build an international environment with more than 25 nationalities, with a strong remote-friendly culture, where 30% of the employees are already working from all parts of Europe
🤝 Earn the trust of thousands of customers and accounting firms and obtain outstanding ratings
🚀 Already more than 500,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and over 5000 accounting firms use Pennylane in France!
Design at Pennylane
Design sits at the centre of this mission and its purpose is to deliver a accessible, seamless and enjoyable experience for our two main users. Our team of 35+ product designers work across different tracks that are divided into cross-functional squads each consisting of Engineering, Product and Design. Autonomy, trust and transparency are the key values upon which our culture is built, this is directly reflected in how our designers operate on a day-to-day basis. At Pennylane, designers are expected to actively contribute all the way from defining the problem space, to research and testing.
We are seeking a Product Design Manager, with a strong strategic and design mindset who has extensive experience working in complex product environments. You will have the opportunity to mentor, coach and lead a team of talented designers to ensure our partners have the best user experience possible.
We are looking for someone with proven experience working directly with C-level executives and executive committees. You have the ability to simplify complex topics, communicate clearly with senior stakeholders, and naturally adapt your presence and influence in high-stakes discussions.
Your key responsibilities
- Scale and level-up your team of 5 product designers. You will partner closely with other design leaders, cross-functional partners, and HR partners to hire, develop and retain design talent in alignment with the growth trajectory of our organisation.
- Identify strategic UX opportunities that will help our users become more productive and drive these forward with your product and engineering peers at track level.
- Orchestrate user research with product leads and your team to understand the behaviour, needs and wants for our most important accounting partners and convert it into actionable insights.
- Skilled at measuring the effect of design on business performance and overseeing critical strategic directions.
- Continuously contribute expertise back to the business in the form of insights and best practices for our users.
- Help your team balance speed, quality, and design consistency, always focusing on JBTD and business goals.
- Shaping and establishing design processes. By driving design best practices, you'll enable more significant impact and efficiency across the team.
- Experienced in partnering with design ops teams
Your profile
- Fluency in French and proficiency in English is required.
- You have a strong track record of leading product design teams, better if in B2B organisations.
- You have an excellent eye for design and are capable to assist the team with ideas and creative inputs.
- You excel at aligning team decisions with the overall vision, JTBD, and design guidelines.
- You enjoy discovering and solving complex problems through data and insights.
- You have experience fostering an inclusive, open, and engaged design team culture.
- You are comfortable communicating future design directions with senior stakeholders, including founders and inspiring positive action within your team.
- You have a a collaborative approach. You have experience working closely with other Designers, Engineers and Product Managers. You value feedback and brainstorming ideas.
- Significant experience collaborating with senior executives (C-level, Executive Committee, etc.)
- Ability to simplify, synthesize, and translate complex issues for non-expert audiences
- Comfortable presenting and defending your decisions to senior stakeholders
- Skilled at finding the right balance in meetings—knowing when to lead, when to listen, and how to adapt your approach to the context
What do we do to make your work life easier
🏢 You'll be able to work remotely from your country of residence, as long as it is in Europe and within a maximum time difference of two hours from the CET time zone
🌴 Wherever you are based, you will get 25 vacations days paid by Pennylane
💵 You’ll have a competitive compensation package
📈 You'll get company shares to enjoy a piece of the success story you're building with us
🏡 You’ll have a budget to turn your home into a more comfortable workspace, as well as a monthly allowance to work from a coworking space whenever you feel like it
⛹️ Through our partner Gymlib, you’ll have access to 8000 fitness spaces in Europe and more than 300 activities related to wellness
🇬🇧 You’ll have access to Busuu to perfect your English or your French
💻 You’ll get the latest Apple equipment
🎉 We are committed to regularly coming together for company events such as Tech Days (which bring remote Pennylaners together every 3 months) or our annual company seminar, fostering significant moments of cohesion for everyone.
If you are based in France, you will have a French contract following French regulation on top of the additional perks : 6 to 12 RTT, 5 weeks PTOs, lunch credits (Swile), Alan Blue healthcare cover and regular events in cities where Pennylaners are mostly presents (Lyon, Bordeaux, Nantes…)
We're working on providing those last advantages to our people based outside of France as well, but it can be quite more complex depending on different countries.
Who are we looking for ?
To thrive at Pennylane, you need :
-To speak English (level is assessed and appreciated according to the department you’re applying to)
-To be energized by an ever-shifting work environment
-To be highly collaborative (within your team or other stakeholders)
-Sufficiently experienced to prioritize business-led actions on your day to day activity
We know that some people are less likely to apply than others, if they don’t feel like they meet the full list of criteria.
If you’re hesitating, we encourage you to apply : who knows, it might be the start of a meaningful and long-lasting collaboration.
We also want to emphasize that we fully embrace diversity, equity and inclusion and that we’re doing our best to create a safe and inclusive environment.
We are committed to providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of gender, sexual orientation, origin, disabilities, or any other traits that make you who you are. If anything, diversity makes us a more fun place to work at.
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The Company
What We Do
Pennylane is building the financial OS (Operating System) for European SMEs. A single source of truth for financial and accounting data, used on one side by entrepreneurs to run their business (invoicing and getting paid, paying suppliers and expense management, piloting cash and profitability) and on the other side by their accountant for bookkeeping and tax filings. Saving time to all entrepreneurs and accountants, helping them to make the right decisions and enabling 3rd parties to offer added-value personalized financial services. We’ve launched in France and will expand to other markets in Continental Europe in 2024. Our commercial website is thus in French only but the code is obviously documented in English and our tech team speaks English. We’re product-led, growing fast, backed by strong investors and are hiring software engineers anywhere in Europe to join our experienced remote-first engineering team
