Senior Product Designer

About Allica Bank

Allica is the UK's fastest growing company - and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever. Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech.

Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities - representing over a third of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.

Role Description

As a key member of the Spend Management squad, you'll help shape a modern business bank account that goes beyond transfers, statements, and card payments. We're building tools that give businesses control over their spending - setting limits, tracking in real time, categorising expenses, and cutting out manual admin. Your work will help UK eSMEs focus more on growing their business.

You'll lead the design process from discovery to delivery, balancing customer needs with business goals to drive impact. By deeply understanding our users, you'll shape the UX strategy and create meaningful, value-driven experiences.

We're creating a culture of ownership and openness-we encourage people across the business to share knowledge and experiences to learn from one another and grow. You are an advocate of design and systems thinking; your expertise positions you perfectly as a mentor to other designers and to help team members across the business solve problems.

People of different ages, genders, ethnicities, sexual orientations and cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply-you'll be able to be yourself and feel valued no matter who you are.

What will you be doing?

1. Working with the Head of Design and your product owner to deliver best in class design solutions. You'll help drive the product vision and lead UX strategy for your product area. You'll help make sure we're designing and shipping the right things.
2. Working through design problems from start to finish-translating customer insights into ideas, crafting end-to-end user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI. You'll design simple, elegant experiences that take care of every detail.
3. Taking ownership of your work by measuring and sharing its impact.
4. Building a deep understanding of our users by analysing behaviour data, testing solutions and supporting user research. By learning from existing insights and observing how customers interact with our products, you'll inform design decisions and refine user experiences. As a strong and vocal user advocate, you'll ensure that customer needs remain at the heart of everything we do.
5. Working closely with product owners, product analysts and engineers. You'll learn, scope and ship together and develop a shared understanding of the product strategy.
6. Actively contributing to the evolution of the design language system. You'll apply systems thinking when solving design problems and consider the impact of design decisions on the broader user experience and engineering.
7. Helping elevate the status of design within the business-We have big plans for the design team, and you'll have a key role in helping with design strategy and improving our community of practice.

About You

1. You make decisions based on evidence. You leverage data and research to inform your design choices, run experiments when needed, and embrace healthy debate as part of the decision-making process.
2. You take ownership. You act with autonomy, ensuring UX standards are upheld within your squad whilst helping the company achieve its broader goals. You focus on action over process and cut unnecessary meetings to keep things moving.
3. You move fast and iterate. You take a think, make, check approach, working in short cycles to maintain momentum. You prioritize getting features into the hands of customers, using real-world feedback to refine and improve.
4. You're open and honest. You share knowledge, give and receive candid feedback, and challenge the status quo when needed. You see failures as learning opportunities and are humble enough to admit when you don't have all the answers.
5. You have 4+ years of experience designing world-class digital products, in-house.
6. You have a strong portfolio showcasing impactful product design work across iOS, Android, and web platforms.
7. You have a deep understanding of UX and human behaviour, ensuring designs are intuitive, accessible, and user centric.
8. You have a keen eye for visual design, with strong skills in typography, grids, and UI design.
9. You're technically aware-you understand the implications of your design decisions and collaborate effectively with engineers.
10. You articulate design decisions clearly and persuasively to stakeholders.

The Interview Process

1. Intro Call (10 mins) - A quick chat with Shantrelle who is part of the hiring team here at Allica.
2. Intro to Design (30 mins) - A video call with Phil, our Head of Design who will explain more about the role and give you chance to talk about you and your experiences.
3. Portfolio Review (1hr) - We ask you to walk us through one of your design projects. We want to learn about how you approach problems and understand your design process. After that, we'll ask you a few interview questions. For this session, Phil will be joined by another Allica designer and a product owner.
4. Remote Design Workshop and Meet your Squad (1hr) - You'll have 30 minutes to show us how you'd approach solving a design problem, after which you'll be introduced to your squad for a chat.
5. Bar raiser (30 mins) - A culture interview with an independent Allican, who is outside of your team and squad. You'll be asked structured, behavioural questions to evaluate your skills, decision-making, and how you embody Allica's values.

Working at Allica Bank

At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers.

Our employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind:

• Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities
• Options for flexible working
• Regular social activities
• Pension contributions
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Private health cover
• Life assurance
• Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave

Don't tick every box?

Don't worry if you don't have all the skills or requirements listed on the job description. If you think you'll be a good fit, we'd still love to hear from you!

Flexible working

We know the '9-to-5' isn't right for everyone. That's why Allica Bank is fully committed to flexible and hybrid working. Please let us know what is best for you and, if we can, we will do our best to accommodate.

Diversity

We're a diverse bunch here at Allica, with all kinds of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles. Our openness and differences make us stronger, and we want everybody to feel comfortable bringing as much of themselves to work with them as they like.