Product Designer

Your roleWe're looking for a Lead Product Designer to help shape the future of Spendesk's product experience, with a particular focus on AI-powered and automation-driven workflows. You'll work across several connected squads or a significant product area, partnering with Product Managers, Engineers, and designers to create a coherent experience and help teams focus on the most valuable customer and business problems. This role requires strong product thinking, systems thinking, and design leadership. You'll remain hands‐on, leading critical discovery and design initiatives while establishing the principles, standards, and shared understanding that enable others to make strong decisions independently. As a senior individual contributor, you'll lead through your craft, judgment, communication, and influence rather than formal people management. London, Paris, Barcelona, or Berlin, with a flexible hybrid work model. Design at SpendeskThe Product Design team plays a strategic role in shaping Spendesk's platform and user experience. We collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, and other stakeholders throughout discovery, problem framing, experimentation, delivery, and iteration. As AI and automation become central to financial operations, we're exploring how intelligent systems can help users move faster while maintaining transparency, trust, and control. Lead complex design initiatives across discovery, exploration, delivery, measurement, and iteration while remaining hands‐on where your expertise has the greatest impact. Create coherent end‐to‐end experiences and resolve systemic UX issues spanning workflows, features, and squad boundaries. Establish and uphold strong standards for interaction design, information architecture, accessibility, content, and visual quality. Coach and support designers, helping them grow in autonomy, craft, product thinking, and organisational influence. What we're looking forSignificant experience designing complex digital products in cross‐functional teams, typically gained over seven or more years. Demonstrated experience leading design across multiple squads, interconnected workflows, or a substantial product domain. Excellent systems thinking, interaction design, and information architecture skills, particularly across complex or data‐heavy experiences. Excellent communication, facilitation, and storytelling skills, with the ability to align teams and influence senior stakeholders. Experience coaching designers and raising the quality and effectiveness of design across a wider team. Experience working in fintech, spend management, procurement, or internal tooling. Familiarity with experimentation, analytics, and data‐informed product development. Experience guiding design‐system adoption or governance across multiple teams. Experience defining shared experience principles, patterns, or quality standards. Work on challenges at the intersection of finance, operations, AI, and user experience. Join a collaborative and international product organisation with a flexible hybrid model. Benefit from competitive compensation, equity, and opportunities to grow across product, design, and AI innovation. Collaborative live workshop focused on product thinking, systems thinking, design leadership, and cross‐functional collaboration. Final conversations with Product and Design leadership. Spendesk is Europe's leading AI‐powered spend management and procurement platform that transforms company spending. By simplifying procurement, payment cards, expense management, invoice processing, and accounting automation, Spendesk sets the new standard for spending at work for companies with up to 1,000 employees. Trusted by thousands of companies, Spendesk supports over 200,000 users across brands such as SoundCloud, Pigment, and Bloom & Wild. Being bold, bringing a positive attitude, and taking full ownership are fundamental to their culture.