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Lead Product Designer
Driva
Sydney, UAE
Full Time
Lead
Hybrid
4 weeks ago
Product DesignUX DesignInteraction DesignVisual DesignUser ResearchUsability Testing
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About the Role
Driva, an Australian fintech, is looking for a Lead Product Designer to own and elevate design across customer experiences, internal tools, and brand touchpoints. The role requires 5+ years of product design experience, strong UX and visual design skills, and a systems-thinking mindset.
Key Skills for This Role
Product DesignUX DesignInteraction DesignVisual DesignUser ResearchUsability Testing
Responsibilities
- Own and elevate design across the business, spanning customer experiences, internal tools, growth initiatives, brand touchpoints, and new product opportunities
- Define and champion design principles, processes, and ways of working
- Design intuitive, high quality experiences that make complex financial products feel simple and approachable
- Partner with product teams and marketing to deliver across a wide range of touchpoints
- Partner with Product Managers and stakeholders to define problems, run discovery, and identify opportunities
- Conduct customer research, usability testing, journey mapping, and competitive analysis
- Create wireframes, prototypes, user flows, polished UI designs, and supporting assets
- Work closely with engineers throughout delivery to ensure high standard of implementation
- Use data, customer feedback, and experimentation to continuously improve outcomes
- Leverage AI tools and emerging technologies to accelerate research, ideation, prototyping, content creation, and design workflows
Requirements
- 5+ years of product design experience designing digital products end to end
- Strong UX, interaction, and visual design skills with a portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking and executional excellence
- Strong grasp of UX best practice, accessibility standards, and emerging design trends
- Systems thinking mindset
- Strong research and discovery skills
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills
- Experience collaborating closely with engineers
- Comfort using quantitative and qualitative data to inform decisions
- Strong sense of ownership and bias for action
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for AI, with experience using AI powered tools
- Collaborative, low ego approach
- Experience mentoring designers or helping establish design practices
Full Job Posting
About Driva
- Driva is an Australian fintech on a mission to deliver a fully automated, seamless financing experience.
- We challenge the traditional car finance experience by instantly matching customers with personalised rates from our panel of lenders.
- Our culture thrives on creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning.
The Role
- Design plays a critical role in how customers experience Driva and how our teams operate internally.
- Reporting to the Head of Product, you'll be the most senior designer in the business, responsible for setting the standard for design at Driva.
- This is a role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys switching between strategic thinking and hands on execution.
What you'll be doing
- Own and elevate design across the business, spanning customer experiences, internal tools, growth initiatives, brand touchpoints, and new product opportunities.
- Define and champion design principles, processes, and ways of working that help teams move faster and deliver better outcomes.
- Design intuitive, high quality experiences that make complex financial products feel simple and approachable.
- Partner with both product teams and marketing to deliver across a wide range of touchpoints.
- Partner with Product Managers and stakeholders to define problems, run discovery, and identify the highest impact opportunities.
- Conduct customer research, usability testing, journey mapping, and competitive analysis to uncover insights and validate solutions.
- Create wireframes, prototypes, user flows, polished UI designs, and supporting assets.
- Work closely with engineers throughout delivery to ensure a high standard of implementation and user experience.
- Use data, customer feedback, and experimentation to continuously improve outcomes.
- Leverage AI tools and emerging technologies to accelerate research, ideation, prototyping, content creation, and design workflows.
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of product design experience designing digital products end to end.
- Strong UX, interaction, and visual design skills, with a portfolio that demonstrates both strategic thinking and executional excellence.
- A strong grasp of UX best practice, accessibility standards, and emerging design trends.
- A strong, informed perspective on what good design looks like and how it gets done.
- A systems thinking mindset.
- The ability to move comfortably between customer facing experiences, internal tools, growth initiatives, and broader business challenges.
- Strong research and discovery skills.
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills.
- Experience collaborating closely with engineers.
- Comfort using quantitative and qualitative data to inform decisions and measure success.
- A strong sense of ownership and bias for action.
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for AI, with experience using AI powered tools.
Benefits
- Hybrid Work Model with travel allowance and home office support.
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
- Thank You Days: additional days off increasing each year, capped at 5 extra days annually.
- Wellbeing Days: 2 wellbeing days off per year.
- Discounted Novated Leasing Package.
- Work from Anywhere: up to 4 weeks per calendar year.
- Learning and Development budget and paid learning days.
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