We’re looking for a Product Designer to help shape the next generation of our financial guidance and investing experiences. You’ll be embedded in one of our Product squads, leading Design from discovery through to delivery to craft intuitive, human-centred experiences that make complex financial decisions feel simple and delightful.
About Octopus Money
At Octopus Money, we’re on a mission to make financial planning and investing accessible to all.
The facts are alarming: half of Brits reach retirement age without enough money to live the life they want, financial stress is a leading cause of poor mental health, and only 8% of us have access to 1-to-1 advice. There’s plenty of information out there, but many of us just don’t know where to start.
At Octopus Money, we bring friendly, human coaching together with empowering technology to create personalised plans that help you understand the actions you could take. Then, we make it easy to invest in a portfolio managed by experts.
You’ll collaborate closely with your fellow designer, product managers, engineers, and financial experts to turn insights into scalable design solutions that drive positive outcomes for our customers and our business. This is a chance to join a small, high-impact team where your ideas will directly influence how thousands of people feel about their money.
Day to day you will be:
- Embedded in our engagement and planning squad. With opportunities to work on both mobile app and web, you’ll be owning the end-to-end experience from discovery through to hi-fi design and iterating based on user feedback
- Translating user research, data insights and business goals into elegant, usable design solutions
- Prototyping, user testing, and refining concepts quickly to validate ideas early
- Collaborating cross-functionally with PMs and engineers to shape our digital product
- Using generative AI intentionally and intelligently to augment and accelerate problem analysis, ideation and prototyping
- Actively contributing to Ink design system - evolving components, patterns, and documentation to drive quality and consistency
- Helping raise the design bar through attention to UI craft and usability
- 3+ years of experience designing digital products end-to-end, embedded in or working closely with cross-functional teams of product managers and engineers
- Strong portfolio showcasing UX thinking, interaction design, and polished visual execution.
- Proven experience working with and contributing to evolving design systems
- A team player with excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work at pace while maintaining quality, making sensible decisions about where to focus time and effort
- Experience of testing and validating prototype designs with users
- Embraces AI as part of the design process, using it to prototype, iterate and work more effectively while applying sound design judgement
- Resourceful and comfortable with ambiguity, bringing structure and clarity to undefined problems
- Experience designing for native mobile apps (iOS or Android)
- Fintech or financial services experience is a plus, not a must
- Exposure to behavioural design principles and methods
A genuine desire to help people
We are a mission-driven business, so it’s important that you can demonstrate a strong desire to help people and improve their lives.
Collaborative and a great team player
We’ve built a great team of top performers, and you’ll need to work with others from across the business to identify problems, agree on solutions, and implement changes
A problem solver at heart with an analytical mindset
You should be someone who gets excited by complex problems and can find creative ways to solve them, no matter what your level of knowledge and experience with the subject matter. You should be able to digest complexity and develop a plan to move forward, without losing sight of the important details.
Goal-driven and not afraid to get stuck in
We like to set ambitious goals and find creative ways to hit them, even if that means rolling up our sleeves and doing manual tasks before we’ve fully automated them. You should have a bias towards action and getting things done.
- Advanced level ability in Figma
- Experience with user testing platforms such as usertesting.com, Lyssna or Userlytics
- Familiarity with AI-augmented design process
In return for your contribution, we offer a base salary of £45,000 - £52,000 DOE + bonus and benefits
We want people to grow here, to feel supported and to feel proud of the impact they make!
You’ll get:
- 18 days a year working from anywhere (for non regulated roles)
- Bonus for non-commission based roles
- Company pension
- Private medical insurance
- Enhanced parental leave
- Birthday day off
- A supportive team who care about what they do
- The chance to help people improve their lives
Please note, as a regulated business we are required to run background checks for all employees which covers adverse financial and unspent convictions. These will only take place upon a successful job offer.
About Octopus Group
We’re part of the Octopus Group: a privately-owned business that’s been doing things differently for 25 years. Octopus sets out to build businesses that will outlive us and create a better world for future generations, including brands such as Octopus Energy, Octopus Investments and Octopus Legacy.
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We believe in equal financial education for everybody, no matter their background. We pride ourselves on building an inclusive working environment where diversity is celebrated.
We do not and never will discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If you require support completing your application please contact [email protected]
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience designing digital products end-to-end, embedded in or working closely with cross-functional teams
- Strong portfolio showcasing UX thinking, interaction design, and polished visual execution
- Proven experience working with and contributing to evolving design systems
- Experience prototyping, user testing, and validating designs with users
- Advanced level ability in Figma
- Experience with user testing platforms such as usertesting.com, Lyssna or Userlytics
- Familiarity with AI-augmented design processes and the ability to use generative AI in design workflows
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; team player
- Ability to work at pace while maintaining quality and making sensible prioritisation decisions
- Resourceful and comfortable with ambiguity, bringing structure and clarity to undefined problems
- Experience designing for native mobile apps (iOS or Android)
- Fintech or financial services experience
- Exposure to behavioural design principles and methods
What We Do
At Octopus Money, we’re on a mission to make money advice accessible to all – because the right advice can turn your life dreams into reality. The facts are alarming: half of Brits reach retirement age without enough money to live the life they want, financial stress is a leading cause of poor mental health and only 8% of us have access to 1-to-1 advice. There’s plenty of information out there, but most of us just wish that someone we trust would tell us what to do with our money! With Octopus, you get a personalised plan and a friendly expert to help you make it happen. We combine advisers, coaches and technology to understand your situation and recommend the right steps for your savings, investments, pensions and more. Then, we make it easy to invest in a custom portfolio, managed by experts. To transform millions of lives, we need a movement – so whether you’re a workplace supporting your employees’ financial health or a firm that wants to offer affordable advice to your customers, we hope you’ll join us. We believe everyone deserves personal, 1-to-1 advice with their money.
