Product Designer

Overview

Preqin is an award-winning, independent, research company providing data and intelligence to the financial industry. Investment professionals use Preqin’s online products to obtain key information for business-critical decision-making. Preqin’s clients include fund managers, legal firms, institutional investors, financial advisors and placement agents.

Primarily a data company; Preqin is also a fast-moving fintech with a strong growth record and a world-wide staff base. Owned by our founder, directors and employee shareholders, we care passionately about our customers, brand and the employees that make it all happen.

Responsibilities

The Design team’s focus is on creating high quality experiences that answer a real measurable customer need, built from a well-considered design system and follow a sensible design methodology. We love designers who have passion and are opinionated but not egotistical. We want people who bring new ideas and focus on outcomes over output. Day-to-day, most designers are distributed within cross-functional product teams but you’ll also be part of a wider global design group where you’ll share skills, learn best practise and be able to develop and progress within your design career.

Role Overview:

You will be designing B2B tools and services, solving customer problems with great experiences and sophisticated interfaces.

You’ll be involved in the entire lifecycle of product development from discovery all the way through to delivery. Focusing on delivering great outcomes at a high quality.

In this role you will:

• Take ideas and briefs and turn them into new features and components.
• Work closely with Product Managers and developers throughout the development process including presentations, review meeting, project briefings, etc. Being a champion for Design.
• Lead stand-ups and workshops, as needed, to ensure successful delivery of projects.
• Analyse data to identify improvements and potential new features.
• Understand the business goals and customer needs to ensure we develop a best-in-class experience.
• Participate in design reviews and share your work regularly with the other Design teams.
• Identify opportunities to challenge and refine product and design principles.

Qualifications

• You’re an experienced product/ UX Designer, who has a portfolio that showcases your attention to both form and function.
• You have a strategic mindset, with a passion for building innovative design with customers at front of mind.
• You’re highly skilled in current design tools such as Figma.
• You’re experienced with human-centred design, design thinking sessions and design sprints.
• You’re motivated by making data-driven design decisions.
• You a confident individual who can present ideas and build efficient working relationships within cross functional teams.
• You have experience of working across multiple devices/platforms.

Other

Company Benefits:

• The opportunity to work within a well-regarded organisation in a fast-growing sector.
• Develop your career in a high growth company with an international presence.
• Subsidised Private Medical Insurance via BUPA, after successful completion of 3 months should you wish to.
• Interest-free season ticket loans on completion of probation.
• A pension plan under auto-enrolment which currently requires a minimum employee contribution of 5% of annual salary. This is matched by an employer contribution of 4%. You can opt to contribute more should you wish to. After your 1-year service with the company the employer contribution will be enhanced to match your contribution up to a maximum of 10% of your pensionable earnings. This means that if you are contributing the minimum contribution of 5%, after your 1-year service, Preqin will automatically uplift the company contribution to 5% of annual salary.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Study support of up to £900 per annum for relevant business qualifications and enhanced support of up to $2,500 for CAIA.
• Excellent Offices in London close to Victoria station and the proximity to many shops and restaurants and London’s West End.
• Company-sponsored sports teams.
• Winter and summer office parties and a company-funded team social budget.

Our Company Values:

Be Customer obsessed

We exist for our customers. We listen to them and understand their challenges. We design best-in-class data solutions for their success.

Act with integrity

We build trust through honesty and transparency. We’re committed to doing the right thing for our customers, our company, and each other.

Own your success

We’re a high-performance team. We challenge and champion each other in our pursuit of excellence. We never stop learning and strive to become experts in our fields

Think forward

We lead the industry through innovation. We foster collaboration and creativity to solve our clients’ next challenge and give them a competitive advantage.

Make an impact

We drive positive change as individuals, and as a company. We’re passionate about creating a better tomorrow for our industry and our communities.

Equal Opportunities:

Preqin is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is at the heart of our business. It is the policy of Preqin to ensure equal employment and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, socioeconomic status, political affiliation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Preqin is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, so everyone has the opportunity to be successful. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please let the Preqin recruiter know at the start of the application process. Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process.