product designer for financial controls

Xelix provides AI solutions that automate and strengthen financial controls for large companies, helping Accounts Payable teams move from manual processes to automated, intelligent workflows.

• Own end-to-end design for high-complexity or high-ambiguity problems, from framing through delivery;
• Set standards for usability, accessibility, and visual consistency, and uphold them in critique;
• Partner with engineers on implementation decisions and tradeoffs between technical constraints and user experience;
• Stay current with agentic and AI-assisted development methods and assess their impact on product and design workflows;
• Develop perspectives on how Design, Product, and Engineering roles are evolving;
• Contribute to product strategy and roadmap discussions;
• Identify product gaps, risks, and opportunities before they become assigned work;
• Challenge scope, priority, or approach when it benefits the user or product;
• Lead research and usability testing, including planning, sessions, and synthesis;
• Build a strong point of view on user needs and use evidence to influence others;
• Act as a design partner to product and engineering leadership;
• Facilitate workshops and drive alignment across teams;
• Communicate design rationale to technical and non-technical stakeholders;
• Own selected areas of the design system and evolve them as the product grows;
• Set documentation standards and help designers apply the system consistently;
• Mentor mid-level and junior designers;
• Contribute to design team processes, critique formats, hiring, and career frameworks;
• Raise the craft bar across the team through example.

• 5+ Years of experience in product design;
• Portfolio showing complex, high-quality product work shipped end-to-end;
• Experience driving projects independently from ambiguous problems to shipped solutions;
• Experience planning and leading research and usability testing;
• Experience mentoring or supporting the growth of other designers;
• Comfortable using or evaluating AI-assisted design and development tools;
• Deep proficiency with modern design tools, including Figma and systems-level component thinking;
• Strong understanding of responsive design, WCAG accessibility standards, and design systems architecture;
• Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and how design decisions are implemented in code;
• Excellent communication and influencing skills;
• Comfortable bringing structure to ambiguous problems;
• Self-directed, with sound judgment about when to escalate or decide;
• Nice to have: Understanding of finance and accounting basics, experience in scale-up, start-up, or agency environments, experience contributing to team processes, hiring, or career development frameworks.

• 27 Days of annual leave, including 3 days of Christmas closing, with the option to roll over 3 days;
• Comprehensive private medical and dental cover with Vitality;
• Enhanced parental leave pay;
• £1,000 Personal annual learning and development budget;
• Carbon-neutral company working toward ambitious carbon reduction goals;
• Team socials, activities, and an annual team retreat;
• Standard working hours are 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Monday through Friday;
• Technical task or presentation is included in the interview process;
• Final interview is held on-site with senior leadership and co-founders.