Principal Product Designer

Summary

Join Cleo, a fast-growing fintech unicorn, as their first Principal Product Designer. You will play a pivotal role in designing a world-class app experience and driving organization-wide transformational impact. Working closely with design managers and various teams, you will establish high design standards and contribute to a positive work culture. This role requires a proven track record of designing impactful consumer app experiences and strong leadership skills. Cleo offers a competitive compensation package, flexible work arrangements, and various benefits, including equity, paid time off, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• You’ve got a proven track record of designing best in class, impactful consumer app experiences in multiple companies as a senior IC or Design leader
• Your work shows the highest levels of craftsmanship in visual, UI, interaction design, prototyping and strong appreciation for bringing brand into the user experience
• You are experienced and comfortable driving impact at the organisation level with context across multiple product areas
• You bring a ‘make it happen’ mindset - proactive in finding the most impactful user and business problems to solve, self-sufficiently gathering insights and data to validate, and quickly able to bring your vision to life
• You have exceptional relationship building and communication skills that enable you to partner with and influence the success of teams across Cleo
• You’ve previously helped to elevate the bar on the quality of design work and been a force multiplier for the design team’s impact throughout a company

Responsibilities

• Work across Cleo’s pillars and squads to support design managers in bringing clarity and focus to the design team’s vision and impact on OKRs
• Play a key role in establishing and maintaining exceptional levels of design craft and execution across the Cleo user experience
• Strategically, proactively and autonomously identify and pitch for opportunities to deliver impact on Cleo’s product strategy
• Partner with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, data, marketing and wider business teams advocating for user-centred design and customer obsession in bringing company-wide initiatives to life
• Support design leadership in establishing and maintaining a happy, inclusive and productive working culture that helps everyone do their best work

Benefits

• A competitive compensation package (base + equity) with bi-annual reviews, aligned to our quarterly OKR planning cycles
• Work at one of the fastest-growing tech startups, backed by top VC firms, Balderton & EQT Ventures
• A clear progression plan
• Flexibility
• Work where you work best. We’re a globally distributed team. Our US team works fully remotely, but we host virtual socials and an annual company offsite in Europe with all expenses paid
• Company-wide performance reviews every 6 months
• Generous pay increases for high-performing team members
• Equity top-ups for team members getting promoted
• 15 days annual leave a year + public holidays (+ an additional day for every year you spend at Cleo)
• 401k matching
• Medical Insurance, Dental and Vision care
• Generous Parental Leave
• 1 month paid sabbatical after 4 years at Cleo
• Regular socials and activities, online and in-person
• We'll pay for your OpenAI subscription
• Online mental health support via Spill