Group Design Lead - Spend

We are looking for an exceptional design leader to join our Spend design team at Wise. You will be working with a cross-functional team to create a best-in-class spending experience for users worldwide.

As a Group Design Lead, you will lead a team of designers to deliver projects across complex product areas, enabling customers to spend multiple currencies and manage them safely. You will take ownership of the vision setting and become accountable for the design quality of our products and processes.

Your mission is to create simple, easy-to-use experiences for a complex financial product that serves 16 million users from diverse backgrounds across the globe.

Key responsibilities:

• Partner with the Group Product Manager, Engineering Lead, Analytics Lead, researchers, and content designers within your squad
• Build empathy and deep understanding of Wise customers' needs
• Guide designers to ensure they are designing and delivering the most impactful projects
• Increase customer-centeredness, creativity, and design quality within the team

This role offers the opportunity to:

• Create world-class work that exceeds expectations
• Delight customers through experiences that evoke emotions
• Build connections with product teams to discover customer needs and create bold, scalable stories
• Champion a design-driven approach through clear and compelling storytelling
• Lead the team and grow a group of talented designers

Qualifications:

• 14+ years of experience as a Design Leader, including people management
• Portfolio of well-crafted, impactful work in digital product design and brand design
• Proven record of leading a highly functioning design team that has consistently delivered features at a global scale
• Understanding of the power of storytelling to manage stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams
• Natural collaborator with excellent communication skills