Now more than ever, people want every experience to be instant and on-demand. And when it comes to getting paid, people want their cash yesterday. But every year organisations waste time, money, and energy sending more than $20 Trillion in payouts to individuals using cash, checks, credit, debit, prepaid, and gift cards! Held back by the legacy banking systems, crushed by the costs and complexity of credit cards there is this monster industry still lingering in the digital dark ages.

At WeGift we’re changing all that. We’ve built our proprietary payment rails that enable any organisation to send money to any individual, anywhere, instantly. No bank account required. No insane interchange fees. We even get up to 25% in commissions from retailers for driving sales which we pass on to our customers. It’s discounted money! We’re throwing away the old model, and transforming how we move and use money forever.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

You can read more about our team here - Diversity & Inclusion

Role Description

As a hands-on Head of Product Design, you'll be building and leading a team of 5 Product Designers who across Treasury, Content & Redemption and Distribution teams.

You'll be inspiring the team through your ways of coaching, mentoring, and leading whilst setting design standards company wide.

Working directly with the VP Product and Head of Product, you'll be managing day to day design as well as leading the design strategy for our revolutionary payments platform.

What Excites You

The opportunity to build, manage and inspire a high performing Product Design team to deliver truly innovative product design solutions by defining design standards which align with the overarching business strategy
Collaborating with product, engineering and go-to-market teams to ensure design continuity across the company
Leading the design strategy for our business and customer facing product which will provide an outstanding user experience, and user journey for all users.

What Excites Us

8 years experience in Product Design, with 3 years experience in a Head of Design or Design leadership position within a high growth B2B or B2C business.
Previous experience building and managing product design teams, taking ownership of prioritisation and delivery against your strategic plans.
A proven background in delivering world class business or consumer facing products in a start-up or scale-up environment, able to showcase an exceptional portfolio of work highlighting your product design experience.
The ability to provide value in both leadership and a hands on capacity, leading by example throughout the UX and UI Design process.
A creative mindset. You are able to utilise your expertise to introduce new ways of working, identify industry and market trends and know how to build outstanding user-centric products through design best practices

Benefits:

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Private Medical Health Insurance with Bupa.
A minimum of 25 days holiday + bank holidays
All permanent employees receive an extra day off a month to help boost their well-being when they need it.
Participation in the Employee Options pool giving you ownership in WeGift and participation in the upside.
Pension scheme (3% contribution)
For the time being we are a remote-first company, however, we will be moving to a more hybrid structure to allow flexibility between home and office based working. You will therefore be expected to be in our London office (145 City Road, nr Old Street) a set number of days a month, agreed by your manager.
Generous maternity and paternity packages to make sure you get to spend time with your new bundle of joy.
£1,000 annual L&D allowance to invest in mastering your craft, including accredited studies.
Cycle to work scheme - save some £££ on buying a bike.
Regular virtual team socials.
Workplace Nursery benefit, where WeGift makes a contribution to your child's nursery for equipment, training, redecoration or anything else
WeRecognise, where we shine the spotlight on exceptional employees every quarter who in turn get a £200 award in the eGift card of their choice.
Staff perks with WeGift brands - discounts of up to 12% on coffee, weekly groceries, holidays, the list is endless.