Lead Product Designer - DiscoveryNew Bets
Lead Product Designer - DiscoveryNew Bets
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Job Description
At Cleo were not just building a productwere reimagining what financial wellness can look like for millions. As a Product Designer in New Bets Discovery youll play a pivotal role in exploring and shaping the future of our offering. Youll be at the heart of Cleos diversification strategy designing and validating bold new product ideas that unlock value for our users and open up new revenue opportunities for the business.
This is a highimpact zerotoone design role. Youll bring fresh thinking a strong product sense and a passion for humancentered design to uncover unmet needs and transform earlystage concepts into compelling testable experiences. Youll thrive in ambiguity using your creativity and strategic mindset to design what doesnt yet exist.
What Youll Be Doing
- Explore New Product Spaces: Deeply understand user problems industry trends and Cleos unique strengths to identify whitespace opportunities.
- Lead EarlyStage Concept Design: Facilitate ideation sessions sketch bold product directions and prototype concepts that redefine what Cleo can offer.
- Validate Through Testing: Design and run lean research and testing processes to derisk assumptions and learn fast from real users.
- Collaborate CrossFunctionally: Work closely with product managers researchers engineers analysts and commercial stakeholders to shape the future of Cleo.
- Tell the Story: Craft compelling narrativesvisually and verballythat communicate the value and potential of new ideas to the broader team.
- Build the Case: Combine customer insight with strategic thinking and data to advocate for investment in the most promising concepts.
What Were Looking For
- Creative Vision: Youre a bigpicture thinker who can imagine and design products that dont yet existbut should.
- Strategic Design Mindset: You love solving fuzzy problems identifying opportunities and designing thoughtful endtoend user experiences.
- ExperimentationDriven: Youre comfortable with rapid prototyping and lowfidelity testing and you know how to validate ideas early and often.
- Collaborative Energy: You know that the best ideas come from diverse minds working together. You bring people into your process and inspire with your craft.
- CustomerCentric: You ground your design decisions in real user needs and are passionate about creating products that genuinely improve lives.
- Startup Mentality: Youre comfortable in ambiguity energized by 01 work and ready to turn vision into spy MVPs and prototypes.
Bonus Points
- Experience in consumerfacing fintech or personal finance products
- Background in innovation labs new venture teams or earlystage startups
- Strong storytelling facilitation and visual communication skills
- Familiarity with product discovery methods user research and design strategy
What do you get for all your hard work
- A competitive compensation package (base equity) with biannual reviews aligned to our quarterly OKR planning cycles. This role is levelled as PD4. You can view our public progression framework and salary bandings here: at one of the fastestgrowing tech startups backed by top VC firms Balderton & EQT Ventures
- A clear progression plan. We want you to keep growing. That means trying new things leading others challenging the status quo and owning your impact. Always with our complete support.
- Flexibility. We cant fight for the worlds financial health if were not healthy ourselves. We work with everyone to make sure they have the balance they need to do their best work
- Work where you work best. Were a globally distributed team. If you live in London we have a hybrid approach wed love you to spend one day a week or more in our beautiful office. If youre outside of London well encourage you to spend a couple of days with us a few times per year. And well cover your travel costs naturally.
- Other benefits;
- Companywide performance reviews every 6 months
- Generous pay increases for highperforming team members
- Equity topups for team members getting promoted
- 25 days annual leave a year public holidays an additional day for every year you spend at Cleo up to 30 days)
- 6 employermatched pension in the UK
- Private Medical Insurance via Vitality dental cover and life assurance
- Enhanced parental leave
- 1 month paid sabbatical after 4 years at Cleo
- Regular socials and activities online and inperson
- Well pay for your OpenAI subscription
- Online mental health support via Spill
- Workplace Nursery Scheme
- And many more!
We strongly encourage applications from people of colour the LGBTQ community people with disabilities neurodivergent people parents carers and people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.
If theres anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation please let us know.
UK App access: The Cleo app is no longer downloadable in the UK (but only until next year). If youre an existing user youll still have access to the app. But some features wont be available (just for a little while). Why 99 of our users are based in the US where financial health is often overlooked. Weve decided to shift our focus to where we can provide the most value and make the greatest impact for users who need it most. Then well be able to apply what we learn to better support our UK users in the future.
Employment Type
Full Time
