Own the merchant dashboard for a Series C payments company. The hiring manager is the head of design, and the first brief is already on the table.
Illustrative photo, Wikimedia Commons. Not Northwind Payments.
Discipline
Design
Place
London
Type
Permanent
Salary
£90–110k
The company
Northwind moves money for mid-market retailers. 140 people, a design team of seven, and a dashboard that merchants actually open every morning. They are hiring because the current surface area outgrew a single designer.
The team
You sit with product and two engineers. Head of design is Nia Okoye. Weekly critique, no design-by-committee.
First months
Month one is the payouts flow. Month two is a merchant empty-state pass with research already booked. You ship both.
The work
Redesign payouts, disputes, and the home summary without a six-month rewrite
Pair with engineering in the file, not after a handoff
Run two merchant interviews a month and write what you heard
Keep a working component library honest
You will likely have
Five years in product design, at least one in fintech or a regulated surface
A portfolio that shows the messy middle, not only the launch frame
Comfortable arguing for a smaller scope
Right to work in the UK
Two doors. Same desk.
Hiring managers send a brief. Candidates send a CV. A person reads both.
